Carl A. Herrin / John Deupree

Carl A. Herrin is a recognized expert on international education and exchange policy and practice. His professional experience includes advocacy projects on nonimmigrant visa issues for students and scholars, tax policy affecting exchange participants, and financial aid and programmatic initiatives in support of U.S. study abroad participants. He has been active in the leadership of NAFSA: Association of International Educators (he is a past-chair of NAFSA's Education Abroad Knowledge Community); and he was a founding board member for the Forum on Education Abroad.

Carl's leadership activities have included chairing NAFSA's Strategic Task Force on Educaiton Abroad, leading the Interorganizational Task Force on Safety and Responsibility in Study Abroad, and board chair for the Council on Standards for International travel (CSIET).  Carl served as the director of AED's Education Abroad Initiative; government relations director for the American Councils for International Education: ACTR/ACCELS; deputy director for the Alliance for International Educational and Cultural Exchange; executive director of the International Exchange Association, and staff director of government relations at NAFSA: Association of International Educators. He began his career with the International Student Exchange Program, then at Georgetown University.

Carl writes on public policy issues related to international exchange, including topics as varied as U.S. - Japan exchange relations, the J Exchange Visitor Program, and the S.C. political scene. A 1981 graduate of Georgetown University, Carl is a study abroad product, studying at the University of Kent at Canterbury and the University of Heidelberg.

John Deupree has been an international leader in global education development for over twenty five years. His professional experiences include transnational education program development, quality assurance, globalization of professional associations, assessment, and international student recruitment and admissions. He has studied in Germany, taught in rural Japan, undertaken field research in Afghanistan, Yugoslavia, Kosovo, Hungary, and conducted partnership development in over 60 countries.

John served as the Senior Vice President of The Scholar Ship, developing a shipboard transnational learning community bringing together students and faculty from around the world. He was instrumental in shaping the American University of Afghanistan, the first English language, private, coeducational university in that country. John also served as the Director of International Education for the College Board where he advanced the Board's leadership and training role in global access to higher education. While at The College Board he developed two well known staples of international education - The Directory of Overseas Educational Advisors and The International Student Handbook of U.S. Colleges (copyright The College Board). He has also held roles in the study abroad offices at Georgetown University and the international admissions office at American University.

John has provided leadership to numerous organizations concerned with international education and exchange including NAFSA: Association for of International Education; The Alliance for International Education and Cultural Exchange, and the Council on Standards for International Education Travel. He served on the federal advisory panel shaping the National Security Education Program and helped broker the U.S. response to the UNESCO Convention on the Mutual Recognition of Degrees and Diplomas. He also helped to found the Center for Quality Assurance in International Education.  In August, 2009 he was appointed as Executive Director for the American International Recruitment Council.