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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.

The "Global Brandeis Symposia" Series

Over the past few years I have been following the work of the Office of Global Affairs at Brandeis University and I'm quite impressed with what's happening out in Waltham, MA!  Following is a summary of the "Global Brandeis Symposia" series that has taken place over the past three years.


My colleague (and past co-presenter), Bryan McAllister-Grande, Associate Director, Office of Global Affairs at Brandeis University, refers to the Global Brandeis Symposia as a form of "internationalization brainstorming" and are designed to "bring recognized scholars in different disciplines to campus to interact with faculty, students, and staff over major questions of global higher education."  Following are links to pages for each of the three symposium where you can read more specifics as well as watch videos of the Keynote Addresses and interviews:

Symposium One

“The Global: Implications for Research & the Curriculum” held in April 2008 with the Keynote Address by Arjun Appadurai entitled “The Globalization of the American University”

Symposium Two

“The Global New Knowledge Spaces and Places” held in November 2009 with the Keynote Address by Kris Olds entitled “Cross-Border Higher Education, Authoritarianism, and the Global Governance of Academic Freedom”

Symposium Three

“The Global: Developing and Intercultural Mindset” held in March 2010 with Darla Deardorff leading a variety of workshops for faculty and staff as well as meeting with students.

You can access the Global Brandeis Symposia website here.  In an effort to summarize these three events, the Office of Global Affairs has published a new report entitled Global Brandeis Symposia 2008-2010 which you can access here.

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.

International Options for Graduates

My colleague, Derek Forsythe, over at the U.S. Center for Citizen Diplomacy alerted me to a great new resource on their website entitled “Options for Graduates.” The Center has located and linked to a variety of international internships, fellowships and job opportunities that should be appealing to recent graduates. You can access the Center’s “Options for Graduates” webpage here.

This is the first, of what I hope will be many, IHEC Blog posts on resources to finding international opportunities.

UPDATE/CORRECTION: This is the second IHEC Blog post on international work. My previous post on Working World can be found here.

The Global: Implications for Research and the Curriculum

My colleague at Brandeis University sent a very interesting posts to several NAFSA network discussions forums and I thought readers might find the links very interesting in their campus internationalization efforts and/or research efforts in this area. Following is a cut and past summary of his post:


Last April, Brandeis University hosted a symposium called "The Global: Implications for Research and the Curriculum," geared for faculty across Brandeis’ schools. The symposium was a two-day conversation on the international dimensions of higher education.


While some of the discussion was specific to Brandeis, the model may be useful as you think about faculty engagement in internationalization.


A brief report on the symposium is available for download at: http://www.brandeis.edu/globalbrandeis/office/symposiumreport.pdf


The symposium web site is: http://www.brandeis.edu/globalbrandeis/office/the_global_symposium.html


Finally, streaming video of the keynote talk by Prof. Arjun Appadurai of the New School is available at:http://www.brandeis.edu/globalbrandeis/documents/globalimplications.mov