Campus Internationalization Reports and Documents
for IEC Members

Working Groups

• Click here to access site on the IEC's Working Groups in Internationalization

Framework

• A framework for internationalization [PDF] (working document)

IEC Forum, April 6, 2006

• Presentation from the IEC forum. [PDF]
• Handouts from the IEC forum. [PDF]

Bologna Process

• Bell , Jeannine E. and Robert A. Watkins, Strategies in Dealing With the Bologna Process [PDF] (article from International Educator), Sept/Oct 2006)
• The Bologna Process: As Seen From the Outside
• Areas of Potential Impact on U.S. International Educators (NAFSA)
• Council of Graduate Schools. Findings from the 2006 CGS International Graduate Admissions Survey, Phase III: Admissions and Enrollment [PDF] (October 2006).
• Denecke, Daniel. "Country of Choice: How International Student Decisions Affect U.S. Graduate Education." [Powerpoint] (February 26, 2005).
• Bologna Process Secretariat.

Readings

• "Students on the Move: The Future of International Students in the United States" [PDF] (ACE: Oct 2006)
• Restoring U.S. Competitiveness For International Students and Scholars [PDF] (NAFSA: 2006)
• Where Faculty Live: Internationalizing the Disciplines (ACE: 2006)
• Global Competence and National Needs: One Million Students Studying Abroad [PDF] (Lincoln Commission: 2005)
• IAU 2005 Internationalization Survey: Preliminary Findings Report [PDF] (International Association of Universities: 2005)
• Measuring Internationalization at Research Universities [PDF] (ACE: 2005) reviews the findings from surveys conducted over the last two or three years. Similar studies on community colleges, liberal arts colleges and comprehensive universities can be found here [PDF]
• An entire issue of Diversity Digest (8:3) was devoted to global learning. It is published by the American Association of Colleges and Universities (2005)
• "Engineering Globalization: Oxymoron or Opportunity?" [PDF] IEEE Technology and Society Magazine (Fall 2005), 8-15
• A Call to Leadership: The Presidential Role in Internationalizing the University [PDF] Published by NASULGC, October 2004
• The Globally Competent Student [PDF] NASULGC, 2004
• The Role of Faculty in International Education [PDF] NASULGC, 2004
• A Self-Evaluation Tool for Faculty [PDF] NASULGC, 2004
• Internationalization of Higher Education Practices and Priorities: 2003 IAU Survey Report [PDF] (International Association of Universities: 2003)
• Beyond September 11: A Comprehensive National Policy on International Education [PDF] (ACE: 2002)
• Promising Practices: Spotlighting Excellence in Comprehensive Internationalization [PDF] (ACE: 2002)
• Expanding the International Scope of Universities: A Strategic Vision Statement for Learning, Scholarship and Engagement in the New Century [PDF] NASULGC, May 2000
• Talk of the Nation episode on "Americans and Learning a Second Language" [RealPlayer]
• Daniel Yankelovich, "Ferment and Change: Higher Education in 2015." Chronicle of Higher Education 52:14 (B6), November 25, 2005*
• Burton Bollag and Kelly Field, "An unprecedented summit between the U.S. government and college presidents paves the way for new efforts to engage with the world." Chronicle of Higher Education 52:20 (A45), January 20, 2006*

Franchise Programs Abroad

• Burton Bollag, "America's Hot New Export: Higher Education" and Paul Mooney, "The Wild, Wild East: Foreign universities flock to China, but are there riches to be made, or just fool's gold?" Chronicle of Higher Education 52:24 (A454 & 46), February 17, 2006*
• John Cavanaugh and Christine Cavanaugh, "Franchising Higher Education." Chronicle of Higher Education 52:33 (B20), April 21, 2006*
• "Wollongong strikes toil in the desert." [PDF] The Australian, April 18, 2006
  
  * Copyright material. IEC members may write to jim.butterfield@wmich.edu for copies.
  
  
• A British Council report on Britain's need for language study reported by the BBC, February 15, 2006
• Also of interest, a monograph titled Internationalizing Undergraduate Education: Integrating Study Abroad into the Curriculum. There is no pdf version. A listing can be found here.

ACE Internationalization Collaborative Meetings

• 2006:
  • Report from the 2006 meeting [PDF] in outline form (Jim Butterfield, Pnina Ari-Gur, Maira Bundza and Mary Lu Light).
  • Learning Outcomes Survey sample document adapted to WMU. [Word]


• 2007:
  • Report from the 2007 meeting [PDF] in outline form (Stephen Malcolm).


• 2008:
  • Report from the 2008 meeting [PDF] in outline form (Maira Bundza, Pnina Ari-Gur, Sisay Asefa).

Notes/Handouts from IEC Meetings

• Notes from A Call To Leadership [PDF] (NASULGC 2004)
• Benchmarks of Highly Internationalized Research Universities [PDF]
• Some Points of Intersection Between NASULGC & ACE Reports [PDF]
• Notes from 4/6/06 Faculty Senate Forum on International Education [PDF]

Administrative Reorganization Report from February 2005

• International Education Administration at WMU: Background and Recommendations Pursuant to the Impending Reorganization of International Offices [PDF]