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Jean Gounard, director of international student affairs, chaired the annual business meeting of the NAFSA Francophone World Special Interest Group at the NAFSA: Association of International Educators meeting in Boston, Massachusetts, May 24–29, and was subsequently reelected chair of the group. During the meeting, official representatives from various parts of the Francophone world spoke on the status of the French language today. Gounard also co-chaired the session "The Importance of NAFSA/Special Interest Group Worldwide." These meetings marked the 14th 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.