President, Institute Of Int'l Education To Address Penn State Forum
January 18, 2001
University Park, Pa. — Allan E. Goodman, president and chief executive officer of the Institute of International Education, will give a talk on "I Sell Goats: The Future of Education a Borderless World" on Thursday, Feb. 1, in the Ballroom at the Nittany Lion Inn.

Goodman was formerly executive dean of the School of Foreign Service and professor of international affairs at Georgetown University, where he built the graduate program into one of the top programs in the country for advanced training in diplomacy, leadership, and international relations. While at Georgetown, he also founded the "Women in Foreign Service Program," for which he recruited Madeleine Albright as director.

Goodman was the first American professor to lecture at the Foreign Affairs College at Beijing, and also helped create the first academic exchange program with the Moscow Diplomatic Academy for the Association of Professional Schools of International Affairs. He also served as presidential briefing coordinator for the director of Central Intelligence and as special assistant to the director of the National Foreign Assessment Center in the Carter administration.

The Penn State Forum is a lunchtime speaker series offered by the Faculty Staff Club and is sponsored in part by the Penn State Bookstore. It is open to the public. Tickets are $11 for non-members and $9 for members, and include lunch. Reservations can be made by mail or by stopping by the Faculty Staff Club office at 103 HUB-Robeson Center. Tickets will be on sale at the door on a first-come, first-served basis. Lunch begins at 11:30 a.m. followed by the speech and a question-and-answer session at noon. For more information call (814) 865-7590.

The next Penn State Forum speaker is Jayne Jamison, vice president and publisher of Redbook, who will speak on "Success: What Can be Learned and What Can't" on Thursday, Feb. 15, at the Nittany Lion Inn.

Contact: Amy Neil, Department of Public Information, at (814) 865-7517 or email aen4@psu.edu.