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At the meeting of NAFSA: Association of International Educators, held in Los Angeles, California, May 24–29,Jean F. Gounard, director, International Student Affairs, chaired the annual business meeting of the NAFSA Francophone World Special Interest Group, where subsequently he was re-elected chair of the group. During that meeting, official representatives from the Quebec government, the Belgian government, the Canadian government, and the French Embassy in Washington, D.C., as well as official representatives from the business world, launched the debate “Francophone Studies in the Global Competition.” The meeting also marked the eighth anniversary of the signature of the Memorandum of Friendship between NAFSA and l’Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie, initiated by Gounard in 2001 as chair of the NAFSA Francophone World Special Interest Group.