The World Trade Center Institute ,
The State of Maryland Department of Business & Economic
Development &
NAFSA: Association of International Educators
Invite you to:
'Securing
America ’s Future:
Global Education for a Global Workforce.’
Date: January 20, 2004
Time: 4:30 PM – 6:30 PM
Location: The World Trade Center Baltimore
401 East Pratt Street
21st Floor, Constellation Room
Hors D’Oeuvres and Open Bar
Click here to register for this
event: oa@nafsa.org
We hope you will take advantage of this very unique opportunity to dialogue with leaders from academe and the private sector, while networking with business and higher education peers from the city and the region.
NAFSA’s annual Economic Impact Statement estimates that in 2002-2003, about 600,000 foreign students and their dependents pumped more than $12.85 billion to the U.S. economy. And this is a conservative figure. In Maryland, the almost 13,000 foreign students and their dependents contributed about $300 million to the state’s economy. Business and management, engineering, and mathematics and computer science were the top fields of study for foreign students in the United States.
U.S. colleges and universities have their work cut out for them ever since foreign students discovered that learning global competencies – or global skills or global literacy – are prerequisites for succeeding in a global economy and workforce acquired through cross-cultural living and learning. Global workforce development – central to NAFSA’s mission – will frame future U.S. commerce and trade policies, and drive much of what Congress votes on in keeping U.S. competitiveness alive and well in an increasingly complex marketplace.
All of us – educators and business – need to find common ground in the mission to shape and support the vanguard of the twenty-first century global workforce. The World Trade Center Institute and the Maryland Department of Business and Economic Development are pleased to collaborate in this critical discussion with NAFSA, the premier association of international educators. NAFSA will also highlight its upcoming 56th annual conference, which will be held in Baltimore May 23 - 28, 2004, and its partnership with the WTCI to highlight Baltimore as a global city.
Comments on the topic from:
William R. Brody, President, Johns Hopkins University
Joseph Duffey, Senior Vice President, Sylvan International Universities
Michael J. Haines, Sr., Vice President, Small Business Development, Howard County Economic Development Authority
William E. Kirwan,
Chancellor, University System of Maryland
John S. Toll, President,
Washington College
