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
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.
