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Established in 1947, the Foreign Service Institute (FSI) is celebrating 60 years of excellence as the U.S. Governments premier Foreign Policy training center. With an annual enrollment of over 50,000, FSI prepares foreign affairs professionals from the Department of State and 46 other federal agencies to effectively articulate American values and to implement the foreign policy of the United States while serving in over 160 countries around the world. FSI, also known as the George P. Shultz Foreign Affairs Training Center, prepares first-time Foreign Service Officers, civil servants, Ambassadors and everyone in-between for the challenges of todays world by giving them the skills to promote the interests of the United States.
The ability to communicate in a foreign language is the hallmark of the professional diplomat, and FSI was established primarily to teach languages and their associated cultures. In 1947, FSI taught 31 languages with an enrollment of 559 students. In 2007, FSIs Language School annually provides more than one million student-hours of training, for basic and advanced language skills in more than 70 languages, many considered critical languages, and taught on the Arlington campus and in field schools in Tunisia, Taiwan, Japan and Korea. Recently, FSI has developed media and public diplomacy training in Arabic and other critical languages to enable our diplomats to reach broader audiences in their native languages. Beyond the walls of the classroom, FSI offers distance language learning programs in 30 languages.
The Foreign Service Institute helps to address the Secretarys goal of leveraging technology to make States workforce more agile and responsive. FSI provides industry-standard training and certification in technical subjects, information security and office productivity tools. Areas of focus include continuous process improvement, quality management and a new executive development program. IT managers in the new program will complete 44 weeks of IT management training followed by a practicum in one of the Departments Information Resource Management executive offices. FSIs Warrenton Division recently qualified for ISO 9000 certification, the international standard for high quality management processes.
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