The Internationalization Collaborative

As a learning community of 88 institutions, the Collaborative provides a forum for faculty and administrators to share ideas and help each other in furthering their international agendas. Members share information about institutional strategies and outcomes and key issues that need further research and advocacy. The activities of the Collaborative focus on the challenges to implementing comprehensive internationalization strategies at member institutions. These activities include:

Annual Meeting

ACE sponsors an annual meeting of the Internationalization Collaborative in Washington, DC, bringing together the leadership teams from each of the member institutions. Agenda items for past meetings have included comprehensive internationalization, faculty engagement, international learning outcomes, assessing internationalization, and strategies for moving ahead.

• Save the date for the 2009 annual meeting of the Internationalization Collaborative: January 30–31, 2009, at the Westin City Center Hotel in Washington DC. More information about the meeting will be available soon.
• Information about previous annual meetings of the Collaborative is available.
  
  

Regional Meetings

Institutional members of the Collaborative host regional meetings on internationalization. These meetings are open to all institutions seeking to enhance their internationalization efforts. Past topics have been new directions in international education, leveraging resources in international education, and cultures and languages across the curriculum. Upcoming regional meetings include:

• "Venturing Abroad: Overseas Branch Campuses and Universities," hosted by City University in Seattle, Washington on October 29–30, 2008.
• "Internationalizing the Curriculum," hosted by Maricopa Community College District in Tempe, Arizona on November 13–14, 2008.
• Access past regional meetings here.
  
  

Collaborative Mini-Grant Awards

The purpose of the mini-grants is to encourage member institutions to develop activities to learn from each other and to accelerate the impact of internationalization at their institutions. The institutions may focus on the same topic (e.g., assessing students' international learning), or they may have different learning goals (e.g., College A is interested in how College B uses technology to enhance learning, while College B may want to learn how College A established joint-degree programs with an international partner). ACE especially encourages cross-sector partnerships, such as ones between community colleges and four-year institutions, that address students' international learning throughout the educational and transfer process. New or existing partnerships/consortia may apply.

• Mini-Grant Awards for 2005 supported collaborative projects focused on service learning programs.
• Mini-Grant Awards for 2006 supported the Cultures and Languages Across the Curriculum consortium and efforts to integrate study abroad into the curriculum and co-curriculum.
  
  

Web Site of Good Practices

The site spotlights institutional strategies for comprehensive internationalization and enhanced faculty engagement, as well as institutional profiles that include institutional visions, strategies, and future plans for internationalization. Future topics will include: infusing international dimensions into the curriculum (general education and majors), internationalizing campus culture, and assessing international learning.

Please direct questions about the Collaborative and this page to:
jill_wisniewski@ace.nche.edu | Staff Contacts
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This page was last updated on 08/19/2008