The State Department had about 80,000 employees in September, the latest numbers that are available. That included about 14,000 foreign service employees and 13,000 civil service employees.

The Foreign Service Institute is the United States federal government's primary training institution for employees of the U.S. foreign affairs community, preparing American diplomats as well as ...

Foreign ambassadors learned about the cutting-edge research taking place at the University of Delaware as part of a visit to the First State on July 21 through the U.S. Department of State's ...

Secretary of State Antony Blinken touted new recruitment and retention efforts within the department, including a 200,000-square-foot training center for the Foreign Service Institute. CARLOS ...

And 137 offices will be relocated within the department or phased out. The State Department also will eliminate the office of the director of the Foreign Service Institute, which provides language ...

The Foreign Service Institute removed more than 1,200 DEI training courses for diplomats. But even with this overhaul, many international schools that receive State Department funds still boast of ...

The Hudson Institute hosted a Tuesday panel discussion on the potential for a reform of the State Department and the U.S. Foreign Service under the incoming Trump administration.

Hattie Kawahara Colton, 87, a retired associate dean of the Foreign Service Institute, a State Department-run foreign policy training center, died Nov. 17 at Carriage Hill nursing home in Bethesda.

By 1957, the State Department had refused to create an integrated eating space for black officers stationed at the Foreign Service Institute in segregated Virginia.

On campus, they heard presentations on U.S. strategic priorities in the Arctic, cybersecurity, human trafficking and its connections to U.S. foreign policy, homeland security and more. In early July, ...

But the student said he still planned to take the foreign service test and hoped to land a position in the State Department. "For a lot of us, we still want to go into the service and make a ...