They also look at kurnt immigration policies on International Student recruitment at american universities and colleges. This is 35 minutes. For the month of april, and i will we this month have a different program, as you can see. And i want to get to it as quickly as possible. Just first i will say that this is a joint effort of the university of Southern CaliforniaAnnenberg Center for communication and leadership policy, the ufc Public Diplomacy council, and the and the Public Diplomacy council. The panel today, as you can see, consists of three distinguished deans unfortunately our fourth dean, dean earnest wilson from los angeles, he flew in from l. A. Last night but unfortunately is still in his hotel room not feeling well. So he will perhaps come for a future event. So without further ado, let me introduce the person who conceived and planned and executed this program, our moderator for today is going to be sheri miller of american university. She believes she taught the first Public Diplomacy course. At au. At au, yes. Sheri. Okay. [ applause ] thank you. Thank you adam. And i must say that adam worked hand in hand with me to put this panel together and were very excited because we think this is a topic that needs some continued discussion. So our goal today is to start that discussion about the trends in International Relations curricula, implications for Public Diplomacy. What is the Current Situation . What should it be . Weve asked each dean to speak briefly about a set of questions that we sent to them, and i also asked them if it would be okay if they spoke in the order in which their schools were founded. And well talk about that in a minute. I just wanted to share the kinds of questions that theyve been asked to reflect on. What are are de motor homeplace macy courses at their universities declining or are they thriving . Where is Public Diplomacy in the curriculum . What are some of the innovations that they find students are very much attracted to . If they had a sudden windfall from a generous alumist or aluma, what would they do with it spot weve asked them to reflect a little bit, share whats going on in their respective schools. Ive asked ambassador brigady to start because even though the Elliot School per se didnt start until 1988, the school is rooted in a school that was founded in 1898 called the school of comparative jurisprudence and diplomacy. And dr. Brigady has his ph. D from the university of cambridge in International Affairs. And you have all the bios so im not going its a distinguished panel and many of you know them well already because they are your bosses or you teach for them. Then dean joel hellman, dean of the walsh school of Foreign Service at georgetown, about to celebrate in 2019, the centennial. He has his ph. D from Columbia University in Political Science. And my dean at the school of International Service, jim gold gier got his ph. D in poly sigh from the university of california at berkeley and were celebrating the 60th anniversary of the founding of the school of International Service inspired by president eisenhower. So, with that were threes check their bios and im going to just turn to ambassador brigady and then in turn theyll over some reflections, not necessarily on all of the questions, just kind of some things they want us to know about their schools and where they feel theyre pushing the boundaries a bit. So ambassador brigady. Thank you very much. Ladies and gentlemen, good afternoon and my profound thanks to the conveners, the american Foreign Service association, usc, Public Council for hosting us. Its a great honor to be here with my friends and colleagues. I would also say that our order of speaking is somewhat arbitrary and depends largely on where one starts the historical conversation. Im sure we were debate a bit earlier whether or not there was an american grad or georgetown grad on mount sinai as moses was happeneding out the Ten Commandments to really determine which of our school is oldest. But im happy go forth. First of all, i think this is an extraordinary important topic to talk about the trends in the curricula as it relates to Public Diplomacy and frankly to do so at. Historical moment. One of the things we see at the Elliot School is that International Affair students are a special breed of student. By definition they care about the state of the world and they want to give themselves the best preparation go off and fight the Worlds Toughest challenges. What id like to do is talk a bit about how we are thinking about that in the Elliot School and then segues quite specifically to the question of Public Diplomacy britt hand the floor over to my colleagues. So i actually as someone whos been both a practitioner and similar of Foreign Affairs, i think we know a fair amount about many of the worlds prosch lems. We know a great deal about our countrys developed economically, we know how alliances work. Theres an all of lot of scholarship out there. The missing element in most cases is leadership. And leadership is something quite specific. Its the ability to bring people together to solve common problems in a way they would not do absent the application of such leadership. So we see our mission at the Elliot School simple, thats to build leaders for the world, leaders were knowledge, skills, and character. So our strategy for doing that is something we called step, step which stands for achieving elite scholarships and teaching ethics and practice. So in addition to the high caliber of scholar smip and teaching thats been on offer at the Elliot School, we were introducing rigorous components in ethics in our curriculum as well as practice. The reason were introducing new ethical components is that if you accept our previous premise that students come to us because they want 10 to gauge in the Worlds Toughest problems, i can promise you and i promise them, they will face profound ethical dilemmas as they do so. So an important part of preparing our students to go off in that environment is to help inform their moral intuition so they cannot only apply a moral, ethical framework to the challenges they face but also frankly strengthen their own internal ethical compasses as they try to figure out how theyre going to engage these challenges. On the practice piece, we think its very important for our graduates not only to tell potential employers what they now, but what they know how do. So that is to arm them with a set of very specific skills so that from the minute they graduate just like a young lieutenant who puts on her Second Lieutenant bars and from the minute shes an officer shes prepared to lead young soldiers, we need to be able to give our students a suite of skills that will allow them to be impact players in Foreign Affairs from the time they graduate to accompany the strong intellectual preparation theyre getting. This gets to the specific aspects of implications for Public Diplomacy. So we, like our sister schools, have a portion of our school that focuses on this, the Elliot School is for public de ploem smassy and education. We have a masters degree in global mun occasions. But if you presume that diplomacy is the after the getting someone else to do something you want them do because they want to did it, communication and engaging through a variety of media whether it be intellect wail wally or mass media or new forms of social media is a skill set that everybody has to learn regardless of whether or not their particular focus is in Security Studies or development or some aspect of regional studies. So one of the things that well almost certainly be doing as we build out our practical curriculum is giving hard skills to our students about how to engage in this space. Because everybody will have to know how do you engamg with the media . How do you do a press conference . If you find yourself as a refugee Protection Officer and all of a sudden a team from algentleman zeer shows up how do you craft a message . Or if youre working phonan ngo and you want to highlight something thats happening on the ground in in syria or on the on the thai board, he then you need to be able to craft messages to do that. So were actively thinking through not only the intellectual theory behind Global Communication and Public Diplomacy but how to equip our students with skills. Let me say in answer to your question, if a generous donor were to give us a large sack of money today, and i hope youre listening, without questioning he question the most important thing wed do is apply it towards fellowship for students for a variety of reasons. Run is that as a general proposition my view is that education in the United States has become extraordinarily expensive and it is very important, to me, that we be able to ensure that any student who has their eye on the horizon, as we say wants to prepare themselves for the toughest challenges the world has to offer is not prohibited from doing so certainly at our institution or other places through the cost either because ha that would mean in terms of their debt burden, in terms of the thus economic choices theyll have to make Going Forward or in terms of their nearterm economic consequences. So thank you very much. I look forward to the questionanswer session. Thank you [ applause ] thank you very much. Im joel hellman from the school fine service of Georgetown University. I would have objected to the order of speaking given the fact that we do like to pride ourselves as being the first school of International Affairs in the United States. But i really want to hear what reuben had to say first so i was pleased to sa seed to him. Its a pleasure to be here with you its wonderful to be here with my washington colleagues. I think this is an extraordinary moment for us to be loaning at this particular set of issues. A few sort of points of good news to start with. I was very pleased to see you may know that at the school of fine service at georgetown we have both an undergraduate fouryear Degree Program and a series of eight different masters degrees at the graduate level. And you apply when you apply to the school of fine service you dont apply to Georgetown University and then choose at some point in your career to declare your interest in International Affairs. You apply directly to the school of Foreign Service as opposed to the college of arts and sciences. This year we had the largest increase in applications the school of Foreign Service in our history and it is the largest pool by far that we have ever had in our history. So what ever the sort of exciting, whatever your views might be about events in the world, in the United States, in europe, in asia and elsewhere, obviously the excitement of those events, especially at the ynd graduate level because this is not yet professional training but its the undergraduates who are really thinking about engaging intellectually in these topic areas that has created a sense of even further commitment and excitement about International Affairs and International Affairs education. And to me thats one of the most optimistic and hopeful signs Going Forward. We had a 14 increase in our applications which is really unprecedented. Applications generally move in a 1 , 2 , 3 band year on year. So something happened and that something is really generating quite a bit of interest. As ruben said, we are all schools of International Affairs, we all have liberal arts curricula that are designed to train from a variety of different disciplinary perspectives students to engage and serve the world in very different capacities. We also have within that overall liberal arts curriculum a specific focus on diplomacy and public de motor home macy we have the institute for the stud dif de motor home placesy at georgetown which offers a certificate in diplomacy for our undergraduates and graduates. Its a multicourse sequence that goes through some of the basic skill sets that are required and of course Public Diplomacy being a component of that. Im also pleased to say within this certificate that is in addition to the major that a student might do, its the second most popular certificate in our school. The first being migration. And migration issues which is interesting in and of itself. Now, just to step back and think about the trends and where things are going, it is interesting if we turn the clock back almost 100 years when this school was created, in his opening address he said we train for law, we train for medicine, why not train for Foreign Service. That was in 1919 about six years before the rogers act created the u. S. Foreign service. So he had in mind training for Global Engagement, not necessarily training for one specific career path. And for many years we built a curriculum that was based on that creating special flifts International Affairs. But over time we came to the increasing realty e realization that a smaller share of our students are going into the Foreign Service itself for us and our undergraduates we have less than 2 of our students go into the Foreign Service as a career path. Theyre going into all different fields and what we recognize in our curriculum is the recognition that youre not necessarily training International Affair specialists, you youre trying to train globally minded citizens who are going to be working in many, many different peelds. Were trying to build our curriculum into other skill sets. So for example yuft two years ago we created a major in business in international adparz because increasingly so much of our Public Diplomacy is actually being carried out by private sector act torsz in many different ways. And its interesting to think about what the role of the private sector is in representing and engaging on issues that are of deep concern to us. We have our second our Fastest Growing major and now our second largest major at the school is Science Technology and International Affairs. The initials fss used to stand for safe from sentence, and you could go and could you do really interesting courses in history and politics and you never had to worry about take a science class. And that atraktd many people to us in the 50s, 60s, and 70s. Now, a said the second growest major. How do you integrate an understanding of International Affairs diplomacy and brick in science and technology . If you think about technology and the aspects and porp answer of technology as a tool of diplomacy, its critical to start thinking about these things. And training students who have the skill set, the deep roots in technology or science and then combining that with International Affairs and were trying to build a curriculum that enables that to happen. And thin finally we have as another one of our disciplinary approach is culture in politics, which is how do you bring together issues of narrative, story, performance and others as an aspect of International Affairs. And i must say, i come from a Political Science and economics background, i worked at the world bank for the last 18 years. If you asked me a few years ago a student came to me and sid want to train for a career in International Affairs and diplomacy i would have encouraged them. Quantitative skills are critical, use how to understand data, how to present data. Now im not so sure because we seem to be living in a postdata world and in a post facts world in which im not going to say that data and these things are not important, but i will say this. That things the method of communication, the form of communication, the ability to tell narrative, the ability to use communication techniques that will effectively present and engage a broader range of constituencies beyond the standard lets present the evidence and see if my evidence counteracts your evidence and see whos right. Those things we did not pay a significant attention to and we need to be thinking about nature in form of communication, about the importance of narrative and story and the ability to explain to a much wider audience than we have in the past. So were trying to design our program around the intersection of these disciplines and International Affairs to be able to build skills in expertise in science and business in communication but link that together to global diplomacy. Now the last thing ill say is one of the ways and ruben has suggested something that were also very queen e keenly interested in is how do you get students do this . You get them do this by actually trying to apply that knowledge to practical problems. Thats not to say that we teach practice, because we dont. Our role, i dont think, is to teach practice. Our role is to inform practice and to get students to confront practice, practical problems with the larger scale ideas, the deeper lit tures and the dealership readings that theyre doing in their liberal arts education. The reading still may be some of the great works in Political Science or economics or global diplomacy, but the actual Practical Implications of it is how do you apply that in a casebased scenario . How do you confront practical problems . One of the things im very excited about is i work with the state department in the Diplomacy Lab in which state Department Teams provide us with problems. Heres a problem that we would like to hear what your students have to say about it. And then our students, with a faculty member as a mentor, will develop a team to try to help come up with a set of ideas and solutions to those problems. And they can do that in the context of an existing course, they can create a course, they can use it as a paper within a course, and we get a list every fall of about im looking at the list now, several dozen projects that are proposed to us by the state department and that our students can then work and think through given the multidisciplinary approach. Thats a very exciting approach. So, i will also add that if there are donors who want to give unexpectedly large amounts of money to us, we will put it to very good use, but one thing that i do want to emphasize, in addition to rubens point on the sclor ship point which i think is critical and i would certainly support that, but what we are also doing for our you are students is using funding to give every student the opportunity for a Global Engagement during the course of their time at georgetown. So that they can and we want to do it as a requirement that before you graduate you are tested not just by doing study abroad. Study abroad is a wonderful thing and i do breesht it, but study abroad is being abroad. We want to think about engaging abroad, which means going and trying to work in a private sector engagement, in a service engagement, in a specific Research Project in the summer at the vacations, during the semester any time that suits a schedule. But enable students to practice what theyre learning and fail, which they probably will do in the early stages by trying to confront their knowledge in a global context that they havent been used to. And i think thats a critical part of their educational experience and thats a costly part of their educational experience so if anyone wants to write a check ill be at the back and be happy to accept it. [ applause ] well, tough acts to follow. I wish we had been founded earlier. But very excited about our upcoming anniversary, june 9th, 1957 is when president eisenhower did the Ground Breaking over at what was then the new building for the school of International Service and as many of you know we now have anier building that opened in 2010 but were very much looking forward to celebrating that 60th anniversary this year. And his call for the establishment of a school that was designed to wage peace. I will come back to in a moment. I do want to say im impressed, you know, my colleagues are much more skilled than i am and they stayed away from political issues. Its hard to talk about Public Diplomacy without noting the proposed cuts to the state Department Budget and the importance of the congress in preventing these kinds of massive cuts from happening because, of course, the Public Diplomacy of the United States depends on having a fully functioning state department that engauges in the world and offers an alternative to other tools that the United States has. In terms of when we talk about our schools droir want to say a couple words wearing my hat as president of the association of professional schools of International Affairs, i think there are two things that i would mention that are related to this topic. One is the role that our schools, and youve heard this, the roles that our schools play in creating cultural competency among our students. And that is perhaps the most important thing that they get from a skoofl International Affairs. Our biggest competitors in the last ten to 15 years have not been one another but rather Business Schools. Because Business Schools are basically going out with the message you want to do international, you can do that at Business School, you can do International Business and its more lucrative than going to a skoofl International Affairs. One attack and weve all done this is to help create opportunities for students to do both. I would argue if you look at that time we have private sector employers coming to us all the time saying we want your graduates because they have something Business School graduates do not and thats the cultural competencies. And you know this is a critical piece of this. The other thing thats thats been sort of stunning in recent years is that history departments have moved away from hiring in diplomatic history. And social and cute ture ral history are important but not to say we dont want to do diplomatic history. And thats what you find across the country and its the schools of International Affairs that have picked up the slack because we depend on that for our programs. We have long been in this space were we as sis sings i came its been very important to me and weve hired two National Historians and maybe having a third hire shortly. And if you look harvard, the Kennedy School hired two of the leading cold war hiss store ians, Johns Hopkins recently brought on board two new employees. This is not hang in history departments and i think both of those things are quite notable. In terms of in terms of a chal evening for us in this space, i would say that its how to integrate understandings of new technologies with our work on Public Diplomacy. And its not just about sort of adding in twitter and facebook into our teaching but really thinking in this era about the ways in which the whole notion of fake news is intersecting with our teachings of diplomacy and how we draw those distinctions. The things that we do in our curriculum like the other two schools represented here were we have undergraduates and graduate students. All 2,000 of our undergraduate students take our kous on cross communication its a required course that they take in their first year and this is designed to help prepare that foundation for building that Cross Cultural competency and at the masters level we have our Masters Program intercultural and international communication. Its a very Robust Program and really built through over the years through the efforts of professor gary weaver who sadly recently passed away but was instrumental in the building of that program and the ic Community Reception was held a little over a week ago just demonstrated the power of that network. We had about 200 alumni who came back for that reception and it was for us it was a very emotional time. But gary really helped to build that and to, in fact, take it into our he built the course for our new relatively new graduate online graduate program. We offer a degree of master of arts of International Relations twoyear degree and executive ed degree and well be launching a social enterprise degree and i mentioned the Online Program because we had about 250 students in the online Degree Program and about a third of those are u. S. Military. And i either active duty or veterans. And one of the things and it gets me every time, i always say to the team whenever it shows up, of course its an automatic admit when they say that if anybodys watching this is the key. You know you see in all seriousness, you see these applications and typically what they do having done the research on the school, is to start by saying, that they were trained to wage war and they would like to come to the school of International Service to learn how to wage peace. And as i said, its a very powerful application, way to start the application essay. And for us its very meaningful to have these students in the program and to be teaching them things that are different from what they learned when they went into the into the marines or whatever branch of service ha they went into. So i think, you know, theyre recognition, i mean, after all, as weve seen the discussion in recent weekends over the president s budget, drawing the quote from mattis from several years ago that, you know, if you dont fund the state department he needs more ammunition and the military more than any other institution understands how important public de ploem nassy and the broader efforts of soft power are for the United States. And then the last thing ill mention in terms of things that were doing and, you know, the other schools do this as well, we have for our graduate students a capstone exercise called the practicum and students are able to work in teams of four to six students or so and do a project for an external partner. We have led these among other faculty that will we have and its just a great opportunity for the students to do a real world project, they get a real project, gives them an opportunity to dig into something and do something thats meaningful for an external partner. They may get hired by that partner whl whether its the state department or global ties or institute for National Education in this space or in many other areas, intelligence community, private sector employers and so on. Its just been a great opportunity for our students to pursue and i think, you know, youre hearing, you know, different versions of this among the three of us, how we try to get the students the kind of practical experience that we need whether its exposure to practice or some, you know, effort at actually doing something thats practical. And i would just emphasize im not going to repeat it because joel put it so eloquently, this effort at Global Engagement and being able to pursue opportunities overseas and of course the biggest need there is the funding. I think all of us would agree that a major challenge is ensuring that opportunities that are available to students are available to all students. It shouldnt just be the students who have money who are able to go do these Global Engagement opportunities or for that matter unpaid internships in washington, d. C. So weve tried to provide some funding and raise funding for those types of things for students to do but we would certainly welcome any money that anyone would want to deliver to us for this. Thank you. Sheri. Sunday night on q a. Here was a yellow pad where holdaman writes down in the midst of the october 1968 were going to Monkey Wrench linden johnsonese peace initiative. This is something that had always been rumored and bits and pieces had come out over the years, but nixon denied it at the time to Lyndon Johnson and he denied it to david profit and he demid it to his buy grafrz. Always said he never played any role in doing this. John fairly long time journalist and author of the book Richard Nixon from his tenure and downfall as president. The way that the water gate burglars their team was assembled was clumsy. 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