Institutional Strategies (Gil Latz and Paaige Turner, Track Co-Leaders)

This track explores the ways in which global learning both contributes to and is advanced by overall programs of internationalization at departmental, school, campus, and university levels. It uses presentations, break-out sessions, and the collective building of a hypothetical unit internationalization plan to examine the following issues: 1) the evolving importance and meaning of internationalization; 2) approaching internationalization through institutional and unit goals and metrics as well as learning outcomes; 3) developing an inclusive process; 4) the importance of integrating/aligning internationalization with the institutional plan; 5) why it is important to pursue internationalization in collaboration with international partners, and how to build and sustain effective partnerships; 6)The key elements of any internationalization plan, as well as the key constituencies that must be involved in the plan's construction; 7) how to identify and remove obstacles impeding internationalization goals; 8) the kinds of faculty and staff development that advance internationalization; 9) viewing international students and faculty as key resources in internationalization; and 10) how different institutional units might work together and support each other in their internationalization activities.