The Institute of International Education was founded 100 years ago today! #iie100

On this day 100 years ago, IIE opened in New York with a powerful belief: that international education was the best way to foster greater understanding among nations and to make the world a safer place. We are honored to be represented in tonight's @EmpireStateBldg lights #iie100 pic.twitter.com/6EkMcWxmbr

— IIEglobal (@IIEglobal) February 19, 2019

IIE 2017 Open Doors Briefing and Discussion (recording of Facebook Live stream) November 13, 2017 #OpenDoorsReport

IIE to Stream the Open Doors Report Briefing Live from the National Press Club in Washington, DC at 9:30am EST on Monday, November 13, 2017

Don't Forget! We'll air the #OpenDoorsReport Briefing LIVE on https://t.co/p6mBMbpuoU starting at 9:30 a.m. ET on Monday. If can't join live, you may view the video on IIE's Facebook page and at https://t.co/yvE17gcDOC later in the day. #IEW2017 pic.twitter.com/DLuF8eUHuC

— IIEglobal (@IIEglobal) November 10, 2017

Follow the Twitter Backchannel from the 2017 IIE Summit on Generation Study Abroad from October 1–3, 2017 in Washington, DC #IIESummit2017 #GenerationStudyAbroad

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Still time to register for the 2017 IIE Summit on Generation Study Abroad being held in Washington, DC from October 1–3, 2017 #IIESummit2017 #GenerationStudyAbroad

There is still time to register for the 2017 IIE Summit on Generation Study Abroad and you can do so via the registration page here.

Last year I was invited to attend the 2016 IIE Summit on Generation Study Abroad on a press pass for IHEC Blog and it was an excellent experience.  There were many great sessions and the networking opportunities with both old and new friends and colleagues ere plentiful.  I would love to attend the Summit again this year but my work schedule prevents will prevent me from attending this year (more on this in a future IHEC Blog post).

I'm a huge supporter of IIE's Generation Study Abroad initiative.  I was honored to be invited by IIE to attend the Generation Study Abroad Think Tank with other leaders from the public, private and educational sectors at their New York headquarters on March 12, 2014 to discuss what it will take to double the number of students studying abroad and to launch the Generation Study Abroad initiative.

Disclaimer:  I make no profit or receive any other benefit for this post.

Follow the Twitter Backchannel from the 2017 IIE Best Practices Conference, March 13-14, 2017 at Florida Interantional University #IIEConference2017

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Follow the Twitter Backchannel during the release of the 2016 Open Doors Report on November 14, 2016 #OpenDoorsReport

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Photo Gallery from the #GenerationStudyAbroad #IIESummit2016

Following are some of the photos I took from the recent IIE Generation Study Abroad Summit held in Washington, DC held October 23-25, 2016.

Wagaye Johannes, Project Director, Generation Study Abroad, 

Institute of International Education (IIE)

Evan Ryan, Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs, 

United States Department of State speaking at the opening plenary

Allan Goodman, President and CEO, Institute of International Education

speaking at the opening plenary

Obligatory selfie with one of my GoAbroad.com hats!

Finally met Eduardo Contreras, Director of Studies Abroad, University of Portland and co-author of a book chapter we are writing, along with Lily Lopez-McGee who is lead on the chapter, on diversity in education abroad.

 Gary Rhodes of California State University of Dominguez Hills asking the panel a question during the U.S. Government Initiatives to Advance Study Abroad session

I wrote my dissertation on an aspect of the National Security Education Program!

Rajika Bhandari of IIE, Christine Farrugia of IIE, Brett Berquist of the University of Auckland and Steve Nerlich of the Australian Government Department of Education and Training at the start of their What are We Counting and Why: Trends in Non-Credit Education Abroad and Global Best Practices for Tracking Non-Credit Students session.

Lisa Loberg of California Lutheran, Ann Hubbard of the American Institute for Foreign Study (AIFS) and Gary Rhodes of California State University of Dominguez Hills at the start of their the Data-Driven Decision-Making: Documenting Study Abroad's Impact on Academic & Career Success session

Allan Goodman, President and CEO, Institute of International Education

speaking at the closing plenary

Holly Hudson of the University of South Alabama accepting award from Allan Goodman for her institution meeting their institutional Generation Study Abroad goals within two years!

Mala Adiga, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Academic Programs, 

United States Department of State speaking at the closing plenary

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Data-Driven Decision-Making to meet Institutional and Organizational Generation Study Abroad Goals

Earlier this week I was at the IIE Generation Study Abroad 2016 Summit in Washington, DC and I attended many great sessions.  For me, the most informative and valuable session was the Data-Driven Decision-Making: Documenting Study Abroad's Impact on Academic & Career Success session presented by Lisa Loberg of California Lutheran, Ann Hubbard of the American Institute for Foreign Study (AIFS) and Gary Rhodes of California State University of Dominguez Hills.

To be sure, I have a strong interest in and respect for the research side of the field.  I firmly believe that making decisions to advance study abroad on your campus or in your organization should be informed by data and research results.  Some of the questions that guided the presentation and discussion follow:

• What are the most compelling findings?
• How do we make them common talking points?
• How can we use these data more effectively to show that study abroad is not only beneficial, but essential?
• How can the case for study abroad be more powerfully made to administrators, trustees, faculty, students and families?

Numerous research studies in the field have demonstrated that study abroad has a positive impact student academic and career success.  All three of my colleagues presented strong evidence on the positive impact of study abroad and were very engaging during their talks.  If you have a chance to attend a future conference session that Lisa, Ann or Gary are presenting at I highly recommend joining their session!


What study abroad data and research results have you found to be most useful in helping you advocate the benefits of study abroad to students or institutional leadership/decision makers?

IIE #GenerationStudyAbroad Voices Video Challenge Winners Announced at #IIESummit2016

Last night at the IIE Generation Study Abroad Summit in Washington, DC the winners of the #GenerationStudyAbroad Voices Video Winners were announced/.  Great videos!  Congratulations to Colette Ghunim and Devin Sommer.  You can see their videos below:

Follow the Twitter Backchannel from the 2016 IIE Summit on Generation Study Abroad in Washington, D.C. from October 23-25, 2016 #GenerationStudyAbroad @IIE_Summit

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Review of "A Student Guide to Study Abroad" by Nevadomski Berdan, Goodman & Taylor (2013) #GenerationStudyAbroad

Following is a brief and long overdue book review that I've been wanting to do since early 2014!

When I attended the IIE Generation Study Abroad Think Tank back in 2014 I (and all other participants) received a copy of the book A Student Guide to Study Abroad by Stacie Nevadomski Berdan (International Careers Expert), Allan Goodman (IIE President and CEO), and Sir Cyril Taylor GBE (AIFS Founder and Chairman) and Published by IIE and AIFS in 2013.

A Student Guide to Study Abroad is an excellent read for any student considering study abroad as well as those who have already made the choice to do so.  The book walks students through the entire study abroad process from determining if study abroad is right for the them, to selecting a study abroad program and understanding the financial implications, to immersing oneself in the host country culture and staying safe and healthy while abroad to returning home and highlighting one's growth from the study abroad experience.  If certain chapters are not relevant to a student they will certainly find value in the other chapters of the book as they navigate through their study abroad experience.  A list of the book chapters follows:

Chapter 1:  These are Global Times
Chapter 2:  Determining if Study Abroad is Right for You
Chapter 3:  Choosing a Program
Chapter 4:  Figuring Out the Financials
Chapter 5:  Preparing to Study Abroad
Chapter 6:  Immersing Yourself in the Culture and Personal Growth
Chapter 7:  Staying Safe and healthy While Studying Abroad
Chapter 8:  Making the Most of Your Time Abroad
Chapter 9:  Transitioning Back to Life in the States
Chapter 10:  Using Study Abroad to Showcase Your Global Growth and Learning
Afterword:  Advocate for Greater Global Awareness Everywhere
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What I really like about this book is that it offers excellent advice for both parents and practitioners in addition to students.  Note that IIE does have a companion book entitled A Parent Guide to Study Abroad (in English and Spanish) and I'll be posting more on this publication after the upcoming IIE Generation Study Abroad Summit in Washington, DC.

I'm happy I have this book in my home library as I have three children who will study abroad as they are part of #GenerationStudyAbroad and this book will be incredibly helpful to them once they are all a bit older.  If you are interested in learning more about and perhaps purchasing a copy of A Student Guide to Study Abroad you can do so via the IIE website here.

Back in May of this year I also wrote a review of the book I really liked entitled Raising Global Children by Stacie Nevadomski Berdan and Marshall S. Berdan which you may find of interest.  You can read that review here.

Disclaimer:  Aside from receiving a free copy of A Student Guide to Study Abroad at the IIE Generation Study Abroad Think Tank I receive no financial gain nor any other form of compensation for this review.

IHEC Blog will be reporting from IIE Generation Study Abroad Summit in Washington DC, Oct. 23-25, 2016

I'll be attending the upcoming IIE Generation Study Abroad Summit as a member of the media (for IHEC Blog) and not as being from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. I'll be blogging, tweeting and posting to Facebook before, during and after the Summit!  I'm hoping to secure some great interviews with key people associated with Generation Study Abroad as well as other prominent stakeholders in the field.  I also plan to try out Facebook Live so stay tuned to IHEC Blog's Facebook page!

This Summit will be my first official press credentials for an international education event...although I had quasi-press credentials for my blog when the Fulbright Scholarship Board held their quarterly meeting at the University of Chicago back in May 2013.

Will you be there? It would be great to connect!

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New Generation Study Abroad video by IIE debuted today at the ‪#‎GenerationStudyAbroad ‪#‎IIESummit2015

Follow the Twitter Backchannel from the Generation Study Abroad IIE Summit 2015, October 1-2, 2015 Washington, DC #IIESummit2015 #GenerationStudyAbroad #StudyAbroadBecause

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IIE's "Generation Study Abroad" Brings Together Educators, Businesses, Governments

The following press release is copied and pasted here to IHEC Blog with the permission of IIE.

NEW YORK, March 3, 2014—The Institute of International Education (IIE) officially launched Generation Study Abroad, a five-year initiative that brings leaders in education, business and governments together to double the number of U.S. college students studying abroad. IIE has already identified more than 150 lead partners who have committed to specific, measurable actions that will help reach this ambitious goal; the result will be thousands more American students graduating with the international experience necessary for success in a globalized world. Organizations can learn more and sign on at generationstudyabroad.com.

Generation Study AbroadLeading up to IIE’s centennial celebration in 2019, Generation Study Abroad will engage educators at all levels and stakeholders in the public and private sectors to drive meaningful, innovative action to increase the number of U.S. students who have the opportunity to gain international experience through academic study abroad programs, as well as internships, service learning and non-credit educational experiences.

Building on its nearly 100-year commitment to study abroad, IIE has committed $2 million of its own funds to this initiative over the next five years. IIE is also actively raising funds for a Study Abroad Fund to provide scholarships to college and high school students and grants to institutions. Thanks to lead gifts by IIE Chairman Thomas S. Johnson and IIE Treasurer Mark A. Angelson, IIE will launch a new scholarship program, the IIE Passport Awards for Study Abroad, to provide supplemental grants for students from inner-city high schools to study abroad when they are in college.

Gilman Scholar Alumni Ashley BlackmonMore than 150 higher education institutions from 41 U.S. states have already signed the Generation Study Abroad Commitment, including large state and private universities, liberal arts colleges, community colleges, and historically black colleges and universities and other minority serving institutions. The U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs and several foreign governments, as well as key higher education associations and study abroad provider organizations, have also pledged to support the goals of the initiative. Recognizing the importance of an internationally focused workforce, IIE is also actively seeking the participation of corporations and the business community.

IIE is seeking at least 500 U.S. colleges and universities willing to either double the number of their students studying abroad, or significantly increase the participation rate of students who study abroad at some point during their undergraduate career. Later phases include mobilizing 1,000 high school teachers and engaging 10,000 alumni and students. IIE welcomes others to join this important initiative.

IIE is launching Generation Study Abroad because the number and proportion of today’s students who graduate with an educational experience abroad is far too low. Currently, fewer than 10 percent of all U.S. college students study abroad at some point in their academic career. According to the Open Doors Report on International and Educational Exchange released by IIE last November with support from the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, 295,000 students studied abroad in 2011/12 in credit-bearing and non-credit programs. Generation Study Abroad aims to grow participation in study abroad so that the annual total reported will reach 600,000 by the end of the decade.

IIE recognizes that it will take time, resources and a perceptual shift to overcome barriers and bring about such change.

"Globalization has changed the way the world works, and employers are increasingly looking for workers who have international skills and expertise," says Dr. Allan Goodman, President of IIE. "Studying abroad must be viewed as an essential component of a college degree and critical to preparing future leaders."

With 2.6 million students graduating with associates or baccalaureate degrees each year, it is clear that major segments of America's young people are not getting the international experience they will need to advance their careers and participate in the global economy, or to work together across borders to address global issues.

Every institution faces its own unique set of challenges in getting more students to study abroad. Private liberal arts colleges in particular have historically been successful in making study abroad a part of their academic experience. But institutions of varying sizes and types with different missions and capabilities are developing innovative efforts to make study abroad more accessible to their students. By sharing best practices, campuses can learn from each other to extend international opportunities to a broader group of students from diverse backgrounds and fields.

IIE will lead the Generation Study Abroad coalition in creating an ongoing dialogue about the need for students to gain international experience. This will include research to identify and break down barriers hindering students from studying abroad, communications to share strategies and best practices to increase study abroad, and fundraising to mobilize additional financial resources. In addition to significantly expanding study abroad, the campaign will track campus activities that expand diversity in race and ethnicity, academic disciplines and gender.

As the first step in bringing stakeholders from different sectors together to achieve large-scale change, IIE will convene a one-day Think Tank (which I was invited to attend and will participate in) on what it will take to double study abroad, gathering invited leaders from the public, private and educational sectors at its New York headquarters on March 12.

New Book: Developing Strategic International Partnerships: Models for Initiating and Sustaining Innovative Institutional Linkages edited by Susan Buck Sutton and Daniel Obst

I want to highlight a relatively new book in the field for IHEC Blog readers.  I have been wanting to post about this new book since it was released back on December 5, 2011 but my busy schedule prevented that from happening.  Additionally, I wanted to read as much of the book as possible before posting which is why I'm posting today and not back in December.  

Developing Strategic International Partnerships: Models for Initiating and Sustaining Innovative Institutional Linkages is edited by Susan Buck Sutton and Daniel Obst and published by the Institute of International Education with support from the AIFS Foundation.  This publication is the sixth report in the IIE/AIFS Foundation Global Education Research Reports series [I have reports 1-4 and now 6 in my Bury Book International Education Library & Archive].


This book is a key resource of IIE’s Center for International Partnerships, which supports colleges and universities in developing strategies and identifying institutional partners (www.iie.org/cip).


I have read a majority of Developing Strategic International Partnerships and I have found it to be invaluable to my work in my current professional position at The Booth School of Business at The University of Chicago.  My work in the International Programs Office at Chicago Booth [where I started working in September 2011] has a heavy focus on international partnerships for the International Business Exchange Program (IBEP) that I manage and Developing Strategic International Partnerships could not have been published at a better time for me as much of that work is new to me!


While I was reading Developing Strategic International Partnerships I could not help from straying away from the practical insight this book provides me to how this book feeds my scholarly and research interests in the field.  This book has generated a number of research questions for me ponder! 


The Table of Contents follows:


Forewords

Allan E. Goodman, President and CEO, IIE
William L. Gertz, President and CEO, AIFS

Introduction
The Changing Landscape of International Partnerships
Susan Buck Sutton, Bryn Mawr College
Daniel Obst, Institute of International Education

Approaching Partnerships Strategically

Chapter 1: Intentionality in International Engagement: Identifying Potential Strategic International Partnerships
Tim Barnes, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Chapter 2: Managing Partnerships of Strategic Importance
Ann B. Radwan, St. Cloud State University

Chapter 3: Mobilizing Your Institution for Strategic International Partnerships
Helen Foster and Ian Jones, The University of Nottingham

Chapter 4: From Grand Plan to Working Web, with Patience and Flexibility: The University of Washington’s Partnership with Sichuan University
Stevan Harrell and Thomas M. Hinckley, University of Washington, Seattle

Models for Managing and Sustaining International Partnerships

Chapter 5: Identifying and Selecting Appropriate Partner Institutions
Sabine C. Klahr, University of Utah in Salt Lake City

Chapter 6: Defining Your X-Factor for Healthy Communication in Transnational Partnerships
Adria L. Baker, Rice University

Chapter 7: Using Global Gateway Offices as a Model for Expanding International Partnerships
William I. Brustein and Maureen E. Miller, The Ohio State University

Chapter 8: Grits, Greens & Gari: Reflections on the Partnership between North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University and Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana
Samuel Owusu-Ofori and Minnie Battle Mayes, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University

Community Partnerships and Capacity Building

Chapter 9: Social Justice and Capacity Building: A New Model for Strategic International Partnerships at Liberal Arts Colleges
Kiran Cunningham and Joseph L. Brockington, Kalamazoo College
Nita Kumar, Claremont McKenna College and NIRMAN
Jonas Redwood-Sawyerr, University of Sierra Leone
Abu Sesay, Njala University (Sierra Leone)

Chapter 10: Managing Partnerships for Success and Sustainability: The Daegu Gyeongbuk English Village Partnership
Anthony J. Shull, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs

Chapter 11: Building Institutional Capacity for Establishing Successful Higher Education Partnerships: An Ethiopian Case Study
Cheryl Francisconi, Institute of International Education Sub-Saharan Africa

Designing Research Partnerships

Chapter 12: Building International Partnerships Based on Common Goals and Mission: Four Case Studies from the University of California, Davis
William B. Lacy and Jennifer N. Wade, University of California, Davis

Chapter 13: Enhancing Global Engineering Education and Research: Building Institutional Partnerships with China
Yating Haller and Eckhard A. Groll, Purdue University

Chapter 14: Developing Research-Based Partnerships: Florida A&M University’s U.S.-Brazil Cross-Cultural Initiative
Clifford Louime and Joseph V. Jones, Florida A&M University; Terry-Ann Jones, Fairfield University

Partnering through Networks and Consortia

Chapter 15: Building Networks for Technology-Based Student Engagement: East Carolina University’s Global Understanding Model
Rosina C. Chia, Elmer C. Poe, and Biwu Yang, East Carolina University

Chapter 16: The Story of a Network from the Beginning: The Dorich House Group of European Universities
Joan-Anton Carbonell, Kingston University

Meeting Challenges and Lessons Learned

Chapter 17: Establishing International Linkages at Historically Black Colleges and Universities: The Case of Winston-Salem State University
Peggy Valentine, Jessica Bailey, and Joti Sekhon,Winston-Salem State University

Chapter 18: Success Factors in Developing a U.S.-Brazilian Educational Partnership Program
Nader Asgary and Hans Thamhain, Bentley University

Chapter 19: Perspectives on the Successful Start-up of Study Abroad Programs in Higher Education: The Faculty Perspective
K. Peter Kuchinke, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Chapter 20: Breaking the Boundaries across Nations through International Partnership Programs: Lessons from a Student Exchange Consortia Program
Luis O. Tedeschi, Cathryn Clement, and Kim E. Dooley, Texas A&M University

Developing Partnerships with U.S. Institutions

Chapter 21: How to Develop International Partnerships with U.S. Institutions: Moving from Feel-Good Agreements to Real Agreements
Fanta Aw and Leeanne Dunsmore, American University

Chapter 22: How Institutions in Developing Countries Can Form Sustainable International Partnerships: Experiences from India
P. J. Lavakare, Symbiosis International University

Chapter 23: Exporting the Community College Model: A Lesson in Thinking Locally While Acting Globally
Mary S. Spangler and Art Tyler, Houston Community College

Planting the Seeds for Partnerships: National Level Efforts in Europe

Chapter 24: The British Council’s UK-U.S. New Partnership Fund 
Elizabeth Shepherd, British Council in Hong Kong

Chapter 25: Advancing French-American Partnerships: The Partner University Fund
Pascal Delisle, French Embassy in Washington DC

Appendices

International Academic Partnerships: Twenty-Five Sample Activities
Criteria for Selecting International Partner Institutions
Susan Buck Sutton, Bryn Mawr College

Beyond Handshakes and Signing Ceremonies: Leveraging Institutional Agreements to Foster Broad and Deep International Partnerships
Tim Barnes, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Templates for Establishing International Partnerships
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Kalamazoo College, Purdue University

IIE Center for International Partnerships in Higher Education


You can learn more about Developing Strategic International Partnerships via IIE's Research and Publication website.


Note:  I receive no financial compensation or other benefits for posting about this publication other than the receipt of an advanced copy.