| |  U.S. University Presidents Summit on International Education![Secretary Rice and President Bush greet each other before remarks at the U.S. University President Summit on International Education. [State Department Photo]](http://www.state.gov/cms_images/2006_0105_univ_pres_1403.jpg) Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings are co-hosting the U.S. University Presidents Summit on International Education January 5-6, 2006, in Washington, DC. The Secretaries seek to engage leaders of U.S. higher education in a renewed partnership to strengthen international education, emphasizing its importance to the national interest. Secretaries Rice and Spellings have called this Summit, organized by the State Department's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, to initiate a dialogue on the need for government to work collaboratively with the non-governmental sector on the future of U.S. higher education in a global arena.
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