Call for Chapter Proposals: “Future Agenda for Internationalization in Higher Education: Next Generation Insights into Research, Policy, and Practice”

Editors Douglas Proctor (Melbourne Centre for the Study of Higher Education) and Laura Rumbley (Boston College Center for International Higher Education) are pleased to launch a call for chapter proposals for an edited collection focusing on next generation perspectives on the internationalization of higher education. The title for the volume Future Agenda for Internationalization in Higher Education: Next Generation Insightsinto Research, Policy, and Practice.

As part of Routledge's "Internationalization in Higher Education" series, this book will focus on new contexts for internationalization in higher education, new topics of enquiry, and new or innovative modes or methodologies of research. As the title suggests, the book will also give primacy to next generation perspectives from emerging researchers and analysts.

The call for proposals and key timelines are now available online at www.nextgenizn.org. This website also contains background information about the rationales for the book and its structure, as well as bios for the editors. 

What I really like about the approach Douglas and Laura are taking with this book is the focus on "next generation" perspectives.  For the purposes of this book, the editors define next generation authors as:

• early career individuals with fewer than 10 years of post-PhD or professional experience
• advanced doctoral students with particularly strong potential as thoughtful and innovative scholars, or
• individuals who may be more established in their careers but who have a particularly “forward thinking” perspective to share on the future of internationalization. 

If you are interested in submitting a chapter proposal I strongly recommend that you visit the website at www.nextgenizn.org.

Disclosure:  I make no profit nor any other type of financial gain from posting about this call for chapter proposals

Community College Corner: Theory for Practitioners: UIUC's Studies Research Seminar

The following is a guest post by Derek Shouba, Dean of Arts and Sciences at Morton College.  This is Derek's second contribution to the IHEC Blog  'Community College Corner'.

Thanks again to David Comp for inviting me to address international education issues in the community college-setting.  This post is dedicated to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign’s Global Studies Summer Research Lab.  As most community college faculty members know, community college educators suffer from several serious challenges related to campus internationalization programs.  One of these challenges is that community college educators often have little time to do the kind of sustained critical thinking that makes for good academic programming.  Teaching five or more classes each semester, full-time community college faculty members can sometimes find it difficult to conduct systematic research before implementing a new course or academic program.  Teaching at multiple campuses for lower wages, community College adjunct faculty members may find it almost impossible to methodically examine existing scholarship in a given subject area before implanting course reform.  The University of Illinois’ grant-funded Global Studies Research Lab is an inspired attempt to ameliorate the situation by offering community college faculty and staff across the country the opportunity to earn short-term fellowships to support a wide range of global education initiatives. 

Applying for the fellowship in the spring, I received an acceptance letter in late April, and began a week in residence on the University of Illinois’ beautiful campus in July.  My project centered on the creation of an enhanced comprehensive campus internationalization plan at my community college near Chicago, Illinois, but other fellows in the program intend to create new international courses, new research bibliographies, or new study abroad programs.

The Global Studies Research Lab affords fellows access to one of the country’s premier research libraries.  The grant covers the cost of the dorm for up to six days, as well as travel expenses to and from Urbana-Champaign.  It also offers fellows a small honorarium for the delivered product, with the opportunity to receive some modest additional funding for the implementation of the product in the months to come.

For me, the highlight of the week was the opportunity to meet with scholars whose work touches on themes related to campus internationalization.  In my case, I had the chance to meet with Dr.Antoinette Burton, historian of empire and author of dozens of extremely influential books and articles on subjects related to globalization.  Dr. Burton’s work has influenced my thinking on globalization, and global history in particular, for quite some time, so it was an honor to meet with her.  Her book, A Primer for Teaching World History: Ten Design Principles (Duke University), has been particularly helpful to me over the past couple of years. While the book acknowledges many of the challenges of teaching global history effectively, it nevertheless offers historians (and perhaps faculty in many other related fields) very practical strategies for tackling this enormously important task. 

To conclude, the Global Studies Research Lab is a wonderful opportunity for community college faculty members to spend some time connecting theory to practice in the field of international education.  I can only hope that this form of dialogue between our nation’s senior and junior institutions finds many analogues in the coming years.

Community College Corner: The NAFSA Academy

The following is a guest post by Derek Shouba, Dean of Arts and Sciences at Morton College.  Derek will contribute to IHEC Blog on a regular basis and will provide his perspective on a variety of international education topics in the 'Community College Corner' posts!

Many thanks to David Comp for soliciting my participation in International Higher Education Consulting Blog.  Over the past couple of years, Dr. Comp and I have had many conversations about the extent to which the principles of international educational, as they have been construed by competitive, four-year institutions, can be applied to America’s open-access community colleges.  America’s community colleges are of course a vital component of any plan to help Americans gain international competencies in the coming decades.  According to the American Association of Community Colleges, approximately half of America’s undergraduate college students are enrolled at a community college at any given time.

As a community college dean, I’m been obsessed with the following question for quite some time: what can a relatively small institution do to promote international competencies among its students, especially when these students are, more often than not, economically disadvantaged?  In the coming year, my goal will be to explore a number of practical and relatively inexpensive approaches to the broad subject of international education, especially in the community college context.

Today, I’ll merely mention one simple tool that I’ve personally employed this past year to enter more fully into the modern discourse of international education, and that is the NAFSA Academy.   While admittedly geared toward relatively new participants in the field of international education, the NAFSA Academy helped me to quickly and painlessly integrate into the wider NAFSA community.  For a reasonable fee, selected participants are paired with approximately five other international educators, and an experienced Academy mentor, for a yearlong introduction to the elements of international education.  The fee includes registration at a special spring training which covers international student advising issues, U.S. international admissions, advocacy in international education, education abroad and comprehensive campus internationalization.  The fee also includes your registration in a regional NAFSA conference and the national NAFSA conference.

The NAFSA Academy is most appropriate for folks who are relatively new to international education, but even more seasoned professionals will discover that the Academy can help you to create a solid network of like-minded professionals.  All Academy participants also get consistent feedback about at least one action project related to international education.  In my own case, I worked on a formal campus international plan.

While the NAFSA Academy is dominated by participants and mentors from four-year institutions, I was matched with a wonderful mentor from a larger community college and still enjoyed the opportunity to share stories and swap ideas with professionals from M.I.T., Northwestern University, and many other research universities.   I can also imagine that an institution would do well to use the NAFSA Academy as an on-boarding process for new employees in areas related to international education, especially if their institution, like mine, isn’t large enough to offer more systematic methods of learning content in each major category of international education employment.
I’ll close by saying that my NAFSA Academy cohort collaborated together on several projects, including an international roundtable at my school’s Teaching and Learning Center, and on a Region V presentation that will happen this week.  Hope to see you there.

See http://www.nafsa.org/Attend_Events/Training/Academy_For_International_Education/ for more information.

Derek Shouba is the Dean of Arts and Sciences at Morton College, a comprehensive community college located on in Cicero, Illinois.  Derek also serves on the Executive Board of the Illinois Consortium of International Studies and Programs (ICISP).  Derek, a Fulbright alum, is a graduate of Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service and holds graduate degrees from McGill University, North Park University, and Roosevelt University.

Indiana University's 5th Annual Institute for Curriculum and Campus Internationalization

MAY 17-20, 2015

Attention, College & University Faculty, Staff, and Administrators -

If you work in a public or private university, research, Liberal Arts, minority, or community college, by participating in this institute you will:

• Learn how to internationalize your curriculum and campus
• Understand comprehensive internationalization and the importance of collaboration and dialogue
• Identify innovative pedagogies, technologies, and best practices
• Explore the teaching and assessment of global learning objectives
• Examine strategic planning and measurements of institutional success
• Become a member of a network of international educators and administrators and much more ...

WHY ATTEND ICCI?  This unique institute facilitates the internationalization of your campus or unit, curriculum, and/or individual course, to better prepare students, faculty, and staff to be effective scholars, practitioners, and citizens of the 21st century.

WHAT WILL YOU DO?  ICCI includes two distinctive tracks (Course Focus and Campus Focus), each with workshops. Whole group highlights include key presentations by national leaders, sessions to identify common ground among disparate campus audiences, an Innovative Internationalization Best Practices panel, a poster session,  a multi-regional cultural evening for networking, and a summative taking action session.

PRE-INSTITUTE WORKSHOP:  If you are new to internationalization, consider joining the optional pre-institute workshop The Increasingly Comprehensive World of Academic Internationalization: The Essential Context.  

ICCI Alumni come from 60 different higher education institutions from around the world!

Individuals and teams are welcome.     Registration now open.     Space is limited.

Deadline:  April 15, 2015 

Costs: Institute- $450 (includes all events, materials, all meals except 1 dinner); Pre-institute- $75 (includes materials & meals).

Dates (Location): May 17-20, 2015 (in Bloomington, Indiana)

Details/contact information:  globalinstitutes.indiana.edu

                                                           

For Questions: icci@iu.edu

2014 Institute for Curriculum and Campus Internationalization (ICCI) at Indiana University Bloomington

The Center for the Study of Global Change, in the School of Global and International Studies at Indiana University Bloomington, is proud to offer its annual Institute for Curriculum and Campus Internationalization (ICCI), which will take place May 18-21, 2014 in Bloomington, IN. This unique institute facilitates the internationalization of your campus or unit, curriculum, and/or individual course, to better prepare students, faculty, and staff to be effective scholars, practitioners, and citizens of the 21st century. This institute is open to all faculty, staff, and administrators of Research I universities and small, Liberal Arts, minority, and community colleges. ICCI includes two tracks with unique guided workshops (Course Focus and Campus Focus), as well as the Global Mini-Conference “Global Issues in World Regions,” a session on the intersections of diversity and internationalization, a poster session for sharing participants’ best practices, and a multi-regional cultural evening for networking. If you are new to internationalization, consider the optional pre-institute workshop “The Increasingly Comprehensive World of Academic Internationalization: The Essential Context.”  

Individuals and teams are welcome. Register soon.  Space is limited.

Deadline:  April 14, 2014.  Details/contact information:  globalinstitutes.indiana.edu

Institute for Curriculum and Campus Internationalization (ICCI) 2013 at the Center for the Study of Global Change at Indiana University Bloomington

The responsibility of curriculum internationalization does not rest solely on the faculty nor on the administration; rather internationalization should be defined, reinforced, and supported through a dialogue among faculty, administrators, and staff who are responsible for fostering, encouraging, and implementing global learning and teaching on campuses.  If you are faculty, staff, or administrator from a public or private university, research or liberal arts institute, community college, HBCU, TCCU, HSI and any other, you will: Learn how to internationalize your curriculum and campus Understand comprehensive internationalization and the importance of collaboration and dialogue Identify innovative pedagogies, technologies, and best practices Explore the teaching and assessment of global learning objectives Examine strategic planning and measurements of institutional success Become a member of a network of international educators and administrators and much more ... All participants must join one of two tracks, for the entire institute, that best matches her or his objectives and interests [click track title for description]: Course Focus: Teaching and Learning Hilary Kahn, Track Leader George Rehrey, Instructional Consultant Campus Focus:  Institutional Strategies Gil Latz,Track Co-Leader Paaige Turner,Track Co-Leader

Pre-Institute Workshop (Optional) Sunday, May 19, 9:00am-12:30pm The Increasingly Comprehensive World of Academic Internationalization [Click workshop title above for description]

Pre-Institute Workshop Leader Susan Sutton, Senior Advisor for Internationalization at Bryn Mawr University in Pennsylvania after three decades at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis. Her philosophy of internationalization emphasizes international dialogue and collaboration.

ICCI 2013 Featured Speaker

Caryn McTighe Musil, Senior Fellow and Director of Civic Learning and Democracy at the Association of American Colleges and Universities. Until November 2012, she was the Senior Vice President of the Office of Diversity, Equity, and Global initiatives. She has special institutional expertise in curriculum transformation, faculty development, and assessment with extensive experience in integrating knowledge about global,  civic, and U.S. diversity within higher education.

Poster Session – New this year! A new addition to the ICCI program is a Poster Session, during which individuals or teams can share their course or campus best practices with all ICCI participants. If you would like to be a part of the Poster Session, come prepared to share materials and/or a PowerPoint on your laptop as fellow participants move from table to table. Learn more and register at http://globalinstitutes.indiana.edu/

The National Association of College and University Attorneys (NACUA) and the American Council on Education will host a workshop in Chicago April 29th to help campuses navigate the ins and outs of planning international initiatives

A description via the workshop website follows: “This program will be of interest to college and university counsel responsible for legal issues related to study abroad and other overseas programs. The campus administrators who may benefit from the program include study abroad coordinators, senior administrators with line responsibility for international programs, managers of international and study abroad programs, campus risk managers, human resources administrators, business affairs managers, and other academic administrators with responsibility for overseas programs. After reviewing the program schedule, members may wish to consider inviting these or other administrators on their campus to join them for the program.”

Workshop and registration information is available here and a more detailed schedule of the day long workshop is available here.

Institute for Curriculum and Campus Internationalization (ICCI) at Indiana University Bloomington on May 22 - 25, 2011

Yesterday I came across this professional development opportunity in  and thought I would post a little something in case any IHEC Blog readers were interested.  


Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Global Change at Indiana University Bloomington, the Institute for Curriculum and Campus Internationalization (ICCI) is scheduled to be held May 22-25, 2011.  Speakers include: Madeleine F. Green, Hilary E. Kahn, Caryn McTighe Musil and George Rehrey.  


According to the website "this will be an intensive institute focusing on how to internationalize curriculum and campuses.  It will highlight contemporary global and area studies, global learning objectives, innovative pedagogical and technological techniques, institutional change and strategic plans, course design, and assessment."


Much more information and a tentative schedule is available at http://www.indiana.edu/~global/icci/

"Intercultural Matters: Internationalizing Higher Education" a free lecture by Jolene Koester, President of California State University-Northridge, for the 2010 Josef A. Mestenhauser Lecture on Internationalizing Higher Education at the University of Minnesota

Jolene Koester, President of California State University-Northridge, will deliver the 2010 Josef A. Mestenhauser Lecture on Internationalizing Higher Education at the University of Minnesota on:

Friday November 12, 2010

2:00 p.m. lecture: “Intercultural Matters: Internationalizing Higher Education”

4:00 p.m. reception

3M Auditorium, Carlson School of Management, UM-Twin Cities campus

This free lecture is organized by the University of Minnesota’s Office of International Programs, and co-sponsored by the College of Education and Human Development, the Carlson School of Management, and the College of Liberal Arts.

To register, and for more details:

http://www.international.umn.edu/icc/mestenhauser_lecture.php

You can learn more about Josef A. Mestenhauser here.

"We are All Islanders to Begin With": The University of Chicago and the World in the Late Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

Since 1996, John W. Boyer, Dean of the College and the Martin A. Ryerson distinguished service professor of History at The University of Chicago, has written an Occasional Papers on Higher Education series focusing on The University of Chicago.  Of particular interest to me and hopefully many IHEC Blog readers is Volume XVII "We are All Islanders to Begin With": The University of Chicago and the World in the Late Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. 

To be sure, "We are All Islanders to Begin With": The University of Chicago and the World in the Late Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries is a history of the University of Chicago but this publication provides an excellent overview of campus international efforts, collaboration and thinking during the early twentieth century through present day.

You can access all of the volumes in Boyer’s Occasional Papers on Higher Education here.  I just received a hard copy of this publication for my Bury Book International Education Library & Archive.

Internationalization in The College at The University of Chicago

Today is the first day of Autumn Quarter at The University of Chicago and I am entering my eleventh academic year of work at this fine institution.  My first five years I worked in the Office of International Affairs which is the office that works with our international student, scholar and staff population.  Since 2005 I have worked in the Office of the Dean of Students in The College with the current position of Senior Adviser for International Initiatives.  


With the start of a new academic year (which brings upon a crazy busy schedule for me) I thought I would highlight the international activities here in The College at The University of Chicago by walking through three floors of Harper Memorial Library (the administrative building for The College where my office is located) and taking pictures of things I see that promote scholarship beyond our borders.  I was surprised to find many different kinds of images that highlight internationalization here on campus and I plan for this to be a week long series here on IHEC Blog.  


For this first post I thought I would take a picture (above) of the eastern wall of the great reading room in Harper Memorial Library and copy and paste text about its significance from a recent Chicago Maroon article (which you can view here):

"Dean of the College John Boyer's speech [to a group of visiting diplomats] continued with the morning's emphasis on Chicago's connections to the wider global community, focusing on international education through centers in London, Singapore, Paris, and, starting next fall, Beijing.  He explained that the screen above the reading room's eastern wall has coats of arms of international universities from Berlin to Calcutta to Tokyo, symbolizing the school;s commitment to international education.  "The iconography of this great building spans geography, and this is a wonderful symbol of the University today, "Boyer said."

As you walk through your campus or organization, building or office what images do you see around you that promote internationalization?


Photo credit:  http://davidcomp.wordpress.com/

"One Size Does Not Fit All: Sustained Global Commitments for the Small-and Medium-Sized Institution" - AIEA Forum on Internationalization - Jan. 28-29, 2011

The following IHEC Blog post is a copy and paste job from various listserv messages that my colleague Bryan McAllister-Grande from Brandeis University has recently sent around. I am reposting with his permission:

The Association of International Education Administrators and Brandeis University are excited to announce this special campus forum to take place in early 2011:

Save the Date - January 28 - 29, 2011

AN AIEA FORUM ON INTERNATIONALIZATION STRATEGY

Hosted by Brandeis University
Waltham, MA (about 30 minutes outside of Boston)

"One Size Does Not Fit All: Sustained Global Commitments for the Small-and Medium-Sized Institution"

Small research universities and liberal arts colleges face special challenges -- as well as unique opportunities -- for comprehensive internationalization and global partnerships. This day-and-a-half Forum, jointly sponsored by the Association of International Education Administrators (AIEA), will be developed as a focused set of small-group discussions about our "sustained global commitments" -- any kind of coordinated set of overseas-based educational activities, including partnerships, exchanges, study abroad, and internationalization hubs, campuses, programs, or offices.

Full details and Registration will be available in October; this AIEA Forum will be limited to 20-25 participants and geared for institutions serving student populations of 2,000 - 12,000 (undergraduate and graduate). For questions, please contact oga@brandeis.edu or +1 781-736-5642

Host:

The Office of Global Affairs at Brandeis University
Daniel Terris, Vice President for Global Affairs
Bryan McAllister-Grande, Associate Director, Office of Global Affairs

2011 AIEA Forum Planning Committee:

April Burriss
Dean, School of International Education
Endicott College

Joel F. Harrington
Associate Provost for Global Strategy
Vanderbilt University

Rebecca Hovey
Dean for International Study
Smith College

Joseph Tullbane
Associate Dean for International Education and Outreach
St. Norbert's College

Sponsored by the Association of International Education Administrators (AIEA) (http://www.aieaworld.org/)
*The AIEA Annual Conference is Feb. 20 - 23, 2011. http://aiea-world.org/events/conferences.htm*
Photo credit:  Paul Trafford

CAMPUS (Central American Program of Undergraduate Scholarships) 1988-1999

As I was reading the book The Culture of Freedom: The Small World of Fulbright Scholars (1992) by Leonard R. Sussmann this weekend I came across something that reminded me of my college days at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire (see my previous video of the week on the ESL program at Eau Claire).  What specifically caught my interest was Sussman’s description of the CAMPUS (Central American Program of Undergraduate Scholarships) pilot program and recommendations that this highly successful program continue.  The Campus program was created in response to the insurgencies in Central America during the 1980’s and brought undergraduate students to the United States from 1988-1999.  The University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire participated in the CAMPUS program hosting several undergraduate scholars from Central America, many of whom I personally knew.  Sussman highlights some of the assessment findings by Development Associates, Inc., who was under contract by the United States Information Agency (USIA), identified that returned CAMPUS participants from El Salvador created an exchange program with the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. 

Further research took me to the LASPAU website where I have copied and pasted some interesting historical information about the program as well as some more specific information about the CAMPUS program at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire:

"The Fulbright Program initiated CAMPUS to enable academically gifted students to obtain bachelor’s degrees at U.S. colleges and universities. CAMPUS provided scholarships for students to complete 30 months of academic course work, including intensive English language training, general education courses, and specialization in disciplines including business administration, communications, computer science, education, natural sciences, and social sciences. Over the course of the program, 795 young people from Central America studied at 28 institutions and returned home to pursue professional careers."

“In 1988, the University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire held a three-day conference on Latin America attended by over 400 delegates, including four Latin American ambassadors, a representative of the U.S. State Department, and CAMPUS students themselves. The university subsequently set up a Latin American Institute, providing undergraduate courses on Latin American history, geography, economics, and political studies, as well as field trips to Latin America.” (my note: I personally benefited from the Latin American Institute established at UW-Eau Claire as I majored in Spanish and minored in Latin American Studies)

You can read more about the CAMPUS program on the LASPAU website here.

New Book of Interest – “The Twenty-first Century University: Developing Faculty Engagement in Internationalization”

I want to highlight a new book by Lisa Childress that I think many IHEC Blog readers may be interested in checking out. Published in 2010 by Peter Lang Publishers, The Twenty-first Century University: Developing Faculty Engagement in Internationalization "identifies what successful institutions have done to overcome endogenous challenges and successfully engage faculty in the internationalization process. Examining two exemplary cases of internationalization, this book extrapolates strategies for colleges and universities to adapt to their unique institutional cultures, histories, and priorities, to support faculty in internationalizing their teaching, research, and service. In addition to in-depth analysis of each successful institution, the book analyzes cross-case findings and implications, presenting a new conceptual model and typology of faculty engagement in internationalization that can be used both by university administrators to expand faculty involvement in the implementation of their institutions internationalization plans and by faculty to advance their knowledge of internationalization."

Following are three reviews of The Twenty-first Century University by scholars that I greatly respect and admire and I felt that it is important to incorporate their words into this post.

Academic leaders, policy makers, faculty and scholars will benefit from the insightful analysis and pragmatic approach to enhancing faculty engagement in the internationalization process. This important and welcomed book helps to fill a major gap in research and practice and demonstrates that faculty are the true 'engine of internationalization' when their involvement is supported and recognized." --Jane Knight, University of Toronto

"Grounded in theory and full of practical advice, The Twenty-first Century University: Faculty Engagement in Internationalization represents an important addition to the literature on internationalization. It provides enormously useful guidance for chief academic officers, deans, and campus internationalization leaders as they work to engage the faculty in the important work of internationalization." -- Madeleine F. Green, Vice President for International Initiatives, American Council on Education

"This study on faculty engagement in internationalization provides insight into a crucial aspect of internationalization policies in higher education that has received too little attention before: how to stimulate faculty interest and involvement in internationalization strategies and activities in institutions of higher education. Her analysis, cases studies and recommendations will be of relevance for colleges and universities in strengthening their internationalization objectives. " --Hans de Wit, Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences; Editor, Journal of Studies in International Education

Information about the author: Lisa K. Childress is an internationalization consultant, who has served as an internationalization leader at universities in the United States and Japan over the past two decades. Her teaching and administrative leadership span institutions including Duke University, University of Virginia, and Kyushu University in Japan. She received her doctorate in education from George Washington University, where she partnered with the American Council on Education in her internationalization research. Dr. Childress received her master of education from Harvard University and her bachelor of arts from the University of Virginia. Her scholarship has been published in leading academic journals including the Journal of Studies in International Education and the Journal of Global Initiatives.

For more information about this book please click on the image of the book cover.

Universitas 21 Announce Joint Ph.D. Program

Universitas 21 has announced that fourteen member institutions have established a joint Ph.D. program. The Memorandum of Understanding signed in May 2009 by Vice-Chancellors and Presidents from the universities of Auckland, Birmingham, British Columbia, Delhi, Dublin (University College), Edinburgh, Glasgow, Hong Kong, Korea, McGill, Melbourne, Nottingham, Queensland and Virginia:

“enables doctoral students to embark on joint degrees which will considerably enhance their research and employment opportunities on an international scale. Unlike a number of other joint programmes, this MoU gives an over-arching framework for universities to create tailor-made programmes of study for each student, taking individual research needs into account and enabling collaboration with another of the network’s universities.”

This is certainly an interesting collaboration in higher education and one to watch!

Universitas 21 is an international network of 21 leading research-intensive universities in thirteen countries. You can learn more about Universitas 21 here.

Call for Proposals for the 2010 Association of International Education Administrators Conference

The following call for proposals comes from my colleague Darla Deardorff, Executive Director of the Association of International Education Administrators.

The Association of International Education Administrators invites the submission of proposals for its 2010 conference at JW Marriott in Washington DC on Feb 15-17, 2010. Pre-conference workshops will be held February 14-15. The conference will begin in the afternoon of February 15 and end in the afternoon of February 17. The theme for the 2010 AIEA conference is “Internationalizing Higher Education: Essential for our Future.” As the title implies, internationalizing our campuses will be core to maintaining academic and institutional excellence across all functions of the university.

Session proposals, due September 1, 2009, are invited to address internationalizing higher education in the US and globally across the full range of university functions. Further details can be found on the AIEA website at http://aieaworld.org/events/2010conf/index.php

Specific areas of interest regarding session submission include the following areas. Internationalizing:

• Undergraduate teaching and learning (e.g., curriculum, study abroad, internships abroad, dual and joint degrees, service learning, recruitment)

• Graduate education (e.g., exchanges, international fellowships, field studies collaborative graduate programs)

• Research and discovery (e.g., multi-university collaborative research and education, joint conferences, seminars and workshops)

• Building campus communities (e.g., conferences and workshops, student organizations and clubs, international centers and houses, international education week, performances, lectures)

• Local, national and international outreach and engagement (e.g., international development with universities, state agencies, non-governmental organizations, World Bank, United Nations)

• Campus leadership (e.g. strategic planning, management, partnerships and joint ventures, risk management, roles of the President, Provost, functional vice presidents and provosts, deans, and senior international officers)

• International alumni and development (e.g., international alumni events, chapters, fund raising, student and faculty recruitment)

• Public policy to include state, national and international laws and policies and governmental agencies.

Inter-association Network on Campus Internationalization (INCI)

Inter-association Network on Campus Internationalization (INCI) is a new network to enter the international education community. This organization is made up of member organizations strictly from the United States and, as you can tell from the name, focuses resources on campus internationalization efforts. Members of the network include:

- American Association of Community Colleges (AACC)
- American Council on Education (ACE)
- Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U)
- Association of American Universities (AAU)
- Association of International Education Administrators (AIEA)
- Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU)
- Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU)
- Forum on Education Abroad
- Institute of International Education (IIE)
- NAFSA: Association of International Educators (NAFSA)
- National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities (NAICU)

You can read more about and link to the web portal of resources of INCI for campus internationalization here.

Accessing Best Practices in Internationalization

NAFSA has updated the Accessing Best Practices in Internationalization (ABPI) tool (a product of the Teaching, Learning & Scholarship (TLS) knowledge community). I’ve enjoyed watching this project come from a thought on a piece of paper during the NAFSA 2005 conference in Seattle to more formal technical planning over drinks at a hotel bar during the NAFSA 2006 conference in Montreal to the initial launch and promotion during the NAFSA 2007 conference in Minneapolis.

What I really like about the ABPI is that you can search by various theoretical criteria for campus internationalization. ABPI currently focuses on the following theoretical criteria for campus internationalization:

- NAFSA Criteria
- American Council on Education (ACE) Criteria
- Jane Knight & Hans de Wit Strategy

You can read more about these three theoretical approaches to campus internationalization here.

Inter-Associational Network on Campus Internationalization (INCI)

Today I came across an interesting website for a new network of eleven higher education associations focusing on campus internationalization. While still in development, the Inter-associational Network on Campus Internationalization (INCI) website serves as a portal for senior campus leaders who are interested in (or charged with) internationalizing their campus. The eleven associations are:

American Association of Community Colleges (AACC)
American Council on Education (ACE)
Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U)
Association of American Universities (AAU)
Association of International Education Administrators (AIEA)
Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU)
NAFSA: Association of International Educators (NAFSA)
National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities (NAICU)
National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges (NASULGC) ~ see my previous blog post on soon to be name change)
The Forum on Education Abroad
The Institute of International Education (IIE)