The three universities are on the future of Public Diplomacy of education. The impact of various immigration policies on International Student recruitment at american universities and colleges. Hello and welcome everyone to our first monday of the month of april, this month, we have a Different Program as you can see. I want to get to it as quickly as possible. This is a joint effort of the university of Southern California and leadership of policy. The Public Council and the Public Diplomacy council, the panel today consists of three distinguished team. Let me introduce the person thats conceived and planned and executed this program, our moderator for today is going to be sharri willard of american university. She taught the first Public Diplomacy course at au. Yes. Sharri. [ applause ] thank you, adam and i must say that adam works hand in hand with me to put this panel together. We are excited. We think that is topic that needs some continued discussions. Our goal is to start that discussion about the trends and International Relation curriculum and ic implications Public Diplomacy. I ask each dean to speak and if it would be okay if they spoke to the order that their schools were founded. Well talk about that in a minute. I want to share the kinds of questions that they have been asked to reflect on. What are the diplomacy courses at their university decline, are they striving . Where is Public Diplomacy in the curriculum . What are some of the innovations that they find students are much attracted to . So we asked them to reflect a little bit and share whats going on in their respective schools. I asked ambassador to start because even though the eliot school did not start until 1988, the school is rooted in a school thats found in 1888. You have all the bios so it is a distinguished panel and many of you know them well already because they are your bosses or you teach for them. Then dean helman. Hes about to celebrate in 2017. He had his phd in columbia university. May dean of the school of International Jim gold llgguyer. We are celebrating the 60th ofo the School Inspiring by e eisenhower. Theyll offer reflections and kind of some things they want us to know about their schools and where they feel theyre pushing the boundaries of it. So ambassador. Sure, thank you very much. Ladies and gentlemen, good afternoon, my profound thanks to the American Foreign service for hosting this event. It is a great honor to be here. I would also say that our order of speaking is arbitrary and depends on where one starts a historical conversation. I am sure we were 7tdebatin debating and as moses was handing out the Ten Commandments there and determining which of our schools are the oldest. First of all, i think this is an extraordinary topic to talk about the trends and cliurricul that relate to the public. Frankly to do so at this historical moment. One of the things we see at the la school, any National Affair students are a special student. They care about the estate of the world and they want to give themselves of the best to go off and fight the worlds top challenges. What i would like to do is talk about how we are thinking about that in the eliot school and segways specifically to the question of Public Diplomacy and i before i hand it over to my colleagues. Some of these practitioners and my colleagues, we know a fair amount of the worlds problems. We know a great deal of our country economically and the missing element in most cases is leadership. Thats something quite specific. It is the ability to bring people together to solve common probl problems in a way that they would not do. Leaders with knowledge and skillswe 0n oicn and character. Our strategy is something that steps. The reason we are introducing ethical components, students come to us because they want to engage in the Worlds Toughest problems. I can promise you and they promised them theyll face profound dilemmas as they do so. They can not only apply the framework to the challenges they face but frankly strengthen their own ethical encompasses as they are trying to figure out how theyre going to engage these challenges. The practice piece, we think it is important for our graduates not only of potential employees of what they know but what they know how to do. We need to be able to get our students a sweet skill thatll allow them to be impact players of Foreign Affairs from the minute they graduate to accompany the strong, intellectual and getting in the specific aspect of publication diplomacy. We have a portion of our school is focused on this. But, if you presume that the diplomacy is the art and doing something that they want to do it. Communication whether it is intellectually or mass media or social media, it is a skill set that everybody has]i to learn. One of the thingshu that we mos certainly doing is giving hard skills to our students about how to engage in the space. Everybody will have to know how do you engage in the immediamed. If you find yourself as refugee Protection Officer and all of a sudden, a team shows up and put as microphone in your face, how do you craft a message, if you are working of an ngo and highlighting something thats happening on the ground in syria or on the tight border, you need to be able to craft messages to be able to do that. We are actively thinking through not only the intellectual theory but also how the equip students. Let me conclude my remark by saying an answer to your question. If a general donor were to give us a large money1 today, i hope you are listening. Without question the most important thing to do is applying it for students. This is for a variety of reasons. One is as a general proposition of my view is that education in the United States is extraordinary expensive. It is important to me that we are able to ensure that any students who have their eyes on the horizon and preparing themselves o f the toughest challenge is not prohibited from doing so of our institutions or other places through the cost either because what that would be of their and the economic choices theyll have to make or in terms of their Term Economic consequences. Thank you very much, i look forward to question answer session. [ applause [ applause ] thank you very much, i am joe hellman. I really wanted to hear what ruben had to say first. It is a pleasure to be here with you. Thank you very much. It is wonderful to be here with my washington colleagues. This is an extraordinary moment for us to be looking at these sets of issues. A few point of good news to start with. I was very pleased to see. You may know that at the school Front Service at georgetown, we have an urnndergraduate a serie of eight different master degrees on the graduate level. You apply, you apply directly to the school. This year we have the largest increase. It is the largest pool by far that we ever had in our history. Whatever your view is of event in the wors in the world of the United States or elsewhere, the excitement of those events and undergraduate level, this is not yet professional training but it is the undergraduates who are thinking about engaging intellectually in these topic areas that has created a sense of further commitment and excitement about interNational Affairs and education. To me, thats one of the most optimistic and hopeful signs going forward. As ruben says we are all schools of interNational Affairs. We have liberal arts curriculum thats designed the train students to engage and serve the world in different capacities. We also have within that overall the liberal large curriculum of diplomacy and Public Diplomacy. We have the institute of the studying of diplomacy which offers a skiff kate certificate diplomacy. It is a multi course sequence that goes through the basic skills set and Public Diplomacy being critical component of that. Within this certificate which is in addition to a mayjor that a student may do, it is the second most certificate in our school and the first is migration. Migration issue is interesting. And i will tell. Just to sit back and think of the frietrend of where things a going. If we turn the clock back when edmond walsh created this school in his opening address, he said he train for law and medicine, why not train for Foreign Service. That was in 1919 about six years before. So we had in mind of training Global Engagement and not training for one specific career path. And for many years, we build a curriculum that was based on that. Creatingp1f minded citizens and well be working many, many different fields. We are trying to build our curriculum of how do we integrate a study and understanding o f diplomacy into other skills set. Two years ago, we created a major in business of interNational Affairs because increasingly so much of our Public Diplomacy is actually carried out by private sector advocate in many different ways. We have our second, our fastest going major and now our second largest major of the school is Science Technology and National Affairs. The initi you could go and do interesting courses in history and politics and you never had to worry about taking a science class. That attracted many people to us in the 50s and 60s and 70s. Now, the Fastest Growing of the major. How do you integrate of understanding of interNational Affairs and diplomacies. If you think about if he ctechn and the aspect of it and a tool of diplomacy, it is critical to start thinking of these things. And then finally, we have as another one of our sub cultural in politics of issues of narratives of an aspect of interNational Affairs. I come from a Political Science and i work for the world bank for ten years. If you ask me a few years ago and a student came to me saying i want to train init internatiol affairs. I would encourage. Quantitative skills, really understand how to understand data and present data. Now, i am not so sure. We are living in a post data world. I am not going to say data and these things are not important. I will say this. Things, the method of communication and the form of communication and the ability to use communication techniques thatll effectively present and engage a broader range of constituents left of evidence and countdowner act your eviden ch. We need to be thinking of nature and in forms of communications and importance of narratives and story and the ability to explain o f a wider instance that we have in the past. We are trying to design our program around the intersection of these disciplines and internagszinte interNational Affairs to build business and science in communication but link it together with diplomacy. One of the ways and ruban suggested that we are also interested in this. How do you get students to do this. You get them to do this trying knowledge of practical problems. I dont think it is to teach practice. Our role is to inform practice to get students to confront practical problems with the larger scale ideas and deeper literatures and deeper readings. We are trying to organize, of course, around the problem. The reading still maybe some of the great works of Political Science and economics or global diplomacy. The actual Practical Implications is how do you apply that in a case base scenario and how do uconn front practical problems. State Department Team provides us with problem. Here is a problem that we would like to hear what your students have to say about it. Our state of the unions will develop a team to try to help come up with a set of ideas and solutions to those problems. They can do that in the context of creating a course or use paper within a course. We get a list every fall of about, i am looking at the list now, several dozen5in projects t proposed to us by the state department that our students can then work and think through. I think thats a very exciting approach. So i will also add that if there are donors who want to give unexpected large amount of money to us, well put it to good use. One thing that i want to emphasize in addition rubens point, i think it is critical and i would certainly support that. But, what we are also doing for our 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 go as a requirement that before you graduate, you are tested, not just by doing study abroad. Study abroad is a wonderful thing and i appreciate it. Study broad is being abroad. We want to think about engaging abroad which means zboing trying to work in a private sector engagement and in a Service Engagement and a specific research project. Any time that students schedule, enabling students to practice what they are learning and fail which theyll do in the early stages by trying to confront their knowledge in a global context that they are not used to. Thats a critical part of their educational experience. Thats a costly part of their educational experience. If anybody wants to write a check, i will be in the back and happy to accept it. [ applause ] many of you know we do have a new building and looking forward to celebrating the 60th anniversary and this year of his call for the establishment of the school which i will come back to in a moment. I do want to say, i am impressed and my colleagues are much more skilled than i am. They stayed away from political issues. It is hard to talk about Public Diplomacy without noting the proposed cuts to the state Department Budget and the importance of congress in preventing these kinds of massive cuts from happening. Of course, the Public Diplomacy of the United States depends on having a fully functioning state department that engages in the world and alternatives to other tool that is the United States has. In terms of when we are talking about our schools, i want to say a couple of words wearing my hat as president of the association of interNational Affairs. Two things i would mention relating to the topic, one is our role. You heard the roles of our School School play in creating cultural competency among our students. This is perhaps the most important thing that they get from the school of interNational Affairs. Our biggest competitors in the last 10 to 15 years have not been one another but rather Business Schools. Business schools are basically going out with the message, i want to do international . You can do that at Business School. Its more luke ra think than going to a school of interaffairs. We do this to create opportunities for students to do both. We have people saying we want your graduates because they have something Business School graut graduates dont and thats cultural awareness. The other thing thats been sort of stunning in recent years is that history departments have moved away from hiring in diplomatic history and social culture issues are very important but not to say we want to do diplomatic history. Its the schools of interNational Affairs that have picked up the slack. We depends on that kind of diplomatic history. Theyve long been in the space. We at sis has been very important to me. Weve hired two Major International historians and maybe having a third hire shortly, and if you look harvard, Kennedy School are two of the leading cold war experts. Others brought on board. This is not an accident. Its happening in the schools of interNational Affairs. Its not happening in history departments. I think both of those things with quite notable. In terms of a challenge for us in this space, i would say that its how to sbraft understandings of new technologies with our work on Public Diplomacy. Its not just about 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 traditi traditional teachings of Public Diplomacy and how we draw those distinctions. In terms of the things we do in our curriculum at the school of International Service like the other two schools represented here, we have undergraduates and graduate students, all 2,000 of our undergraduate students take our course on crosscultural communication. Its a required course that they currently take in their first year, and this is really designed to help prepare that foundation for building that crosscultural competency. At the masters level we have our Masters Program intercult