Judith A. McHale, Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs, remarks at the EducationUSA Forum in Washington, DC on June 22, 2011

The second annual EducationUSA Forum 2011 is currently underway in Washington, DC (June 22-24, 2011). You can follow the Twitter back channel from the Forum via the #EdUSAForum hashtag. Following are the remarks by Judith A. McHale, Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs, at the Opening Plenary yesterday morning.  You can also read the text of her address here.

Judith McHale remarks at the The Exchange 2.0 Summit this morning

Following are the remarks by Judith A. McHale, Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs, at The Exchange 2.0 Summit hosted by the U.S. Institute of Peace in Washington, D.C.: 




You can also read Secretary McHale's remarks here.

Remarks of Secretary Hillary Clinton, Under Secretary Judith McHale and Assistant Secretary Ann Stock at the National Council of International Visitors (NCIV) reception celebrating the 50th anniversary of citizen diplomacy at the State Department.

In case you were unable to watch the live feeds of Secretary Hillary Clinton, Under Secretary Judith McHale and Assistant Secretary Ann Stock  from the National Council of International Visitors (NCIV) reception celebrating the 50th anniversary of citizen diplomacy at the State Department I have embedded them below:

Live Webcast Celebrating 50 Years of Citizen Diplomacy with Hillary Rodham Clinton, Judith A. McHale & Ann Stock

Live Webcast Celebrating 50 Years of Citizen Diplomacy with Hillary Rodham Clinton, Judith A. McHale & Ann Stock

Thursday, February 17, 2011

Schedule (all times EST)

8:30am: Assistant Secretary Ann Stock
12:45pm: Under Secretary Judith McHale
6:15pm: Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton

Tune in at http://exchanges.state.gov/live-stream.html

Recent Comments by Secretary Clinton and Under Secretary McHale Relating to International Educational Exchange

This week and next week I had planned theme weeks (publishing in the field of international education and teaching, learning and scholarship in the field of international education) but I'm unable to find my publishing grid.  These themed weeks would end with my remaining two video interviews I took during the NAFSA annual conference.  I'll blame this oversight on the NAFSA annual conference, then back to a crazy work schedule for a week, then a week vacation at Disneyland and then my dissertation proposal defense...I hope to find this grid soon and I hope they posts live up to the hype!

In clearing out my IHEC Blog Gmaill account I have found many things to post about here on IHEC Blog, to IHEC Blog's Facebook page and to Twitter and I hope those following me on all of these spaces are finding both interest and value in the content I'm posting.

For this post I wanted to highlight and provide links to remarks by United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to students from the Kennedy-Lugar Youth Exchange and Study Program (YES) which you can read and watch (11:18) here and remarks by Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs at the United States Department of State Judith McHale at the reception for International Fulbright Science and Technology Fellows which you can read here.

Video and Text of Judith A. McHale on Release of the Open Doors 2009 Report

At the end of my IHEC Blog post yesterday I asked where to find a transcript of Judith A. McHale’s, Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs, remarks at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. on Monday opening the tenth annual International Education Week and announcing the significant findings from Open Doors 2009. Well I found the transcript of her comments which you can read here but you may want to watch this video (6:54) of her remarks:

U.S. Department of State press releases on Open Doors Data

I receive many, many Google Alerts for a variety of search terms related to international educational exchange and it is really great to read all of the news articles (in the international, national & local press) and press releases related to International Education Week, the Open Doors 2009 report and NAFSA’s Economic Impact Statements. I enjoy reading college and university student papers and institutional press releases that highlight the number of international students on their respective campuses and the number of their students that study abroad as well as how they rank in the Open Doors report. Additionally, I liked seeing that the U.S. Department of State issued press releases on the release of Open Doors 2009 (although I was hoping for more of a statement from them). Here are is the link to the two U.S. Department of State press releases on Open Doors data:

-11/16/09 International Students Come to United States in Record Numbers, 16% Increase in New Foreign Student Enrollments is Largest Since 1980; Office of the Spokesman; Washington, DC

-11/16/09 Numbers of Americans Studying Abroad Up 8.5%, China, India, Japan, South Africa, and Argentina See Strong Gains as Destinations; Office of the Spokesman; Washington, DC

Also, does anyone know if (and where) there is a transcript of Judith A. McHale’s, Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs, briefing on the launch and observance of International Week yesterday at the National Press Club in Washington, DC?