Sec. 332. Sense of Congress on partnerships between Department of State and academic and other non-department institutions and organizations for training and professional development of Foreign Service and Civil Service personnel
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Congress finds that partnerships between the Department, on the one hand, and other United States Government agencies, academic institutions, and other private sector organizations and entities, on the other hand, have proven valuable in providing and expanding the availability of opportunities for training and professional development for Foreign Service and Civil Service personnel of the Department. In light of the finding in subsection (a), it is the sense of Congress that the Secretary should expand and enhance existing partnerships described in that subsection, and enter into new such partnerships, in order to provide or expand opportunities for training and professional development for Foreign Service and Civil Service personnel of the Department, including through— agreements with academic institutions with which the Department has a current such partnership to increase the number of such personnel authorized to attend such institutions for training or professional development purposes, to expand the courses of education or training pursuable by such personnel at such institutions for such purposes, or both; agreements with academic institutions with which the Department does not have a current such partnership (including, in particular, institutions with which the Department has no history or a limited history of partnership) to authorize such personnel to attend such institutions for training or professional development purposes; agreements with component institutions of the Department of Defense (including the National Defense University and the other Senior Service Colleges) to— increase the number of such personnel authorized to attend such institutions for, or as part of, a professional development tour of duty required for promotion from the pre-senior level or for other training or professional development purposes; or newly authorize the attendance of such personnel at such institutions for, or as part of, such a professional development tour of duty or for such other purposes; agreements with other Federal departments agencies for detailing such personnel for training or professional development purposes; and agreements with appropriate private sector organizations and entities for detailing such personnel to such organizations or entities for training or professional development purposes.