Whence outreach?

According to Associated Press, fewer foreign students are attending US high schools. The Christian Science Monitor notes that foreign enrollment at US colleges is dropping. It had also been noted last year that foreign visits to the US had dropped sharply. This will have negative consequences on the brain drain (to which the H1B visa contributes) that the US has traditionally gained from, as well as reducing one mode of cultural outreach on the personal level, slowing the spread of American values in the world.

That's worth contrasting with the recent report of the Defense Science Board critical of how the US was engaging the world.

To succeed, we must understand the United States is engaged in a generational and global struggle about ideas, not a war between the West and Islam. It is more than a war against the tactic of terrorism...
...those who shaped overseas information and cultural activities believed the challenges required an American response, not just a government response. It was not a task for diplomats and military commanders only. Writers, film directors, scholars, journalists, poets, playwrights, librarians, scientists, foundation executives, business leaders, and labor leaders became involved directly through temporary service in government and indirectly through exchanges and other means.