See also: Conferences, List-servs, and Periodicals
Web Resources
International Resources (AACC): disseminates information about online, print and social networking resources useful to faculty and staff at U.S. community colleges.
Publications (Free)
Diversity and Democracy, Volume 14, Number 2 (AAC&U): This issue focuses on the importance of scientific literacy in global and interdisciplinary contexts and features promising campus practices from AAC&U member institutions.
Diversity and Democracy, Volume 14, Number 1 (AAC&U): This issue focuses on educating students for personal and social responsibility in a diverse nation and interdependent world. Diversity and Democracy is published three times a year.
Building International Connections for U.S. Universities: Fulbright Scholar Program (CIES): A report on the ongoing impact Fulbright Scholars have on the internationalization of their home campuses after their return. The report includes data and case studies on how returned Fulbright Scholars internationalize curricula, promote study abroad, attract foreign students and faculty, and enhance the global engagement of their communities. An executive summary of the report is also available.
A National Action Agenda for Internationalizing Higher Education (Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities): This report builds upon the previous document, A Call to Leadership, setting forth desired outcomes in the internationalization process for higher education and providing a detailed roadmap of strategies to assist institutions in taking their international initiatives to higher levels.
Standards of Good Practice for Education Abroad (3rd edition, 2008) (Forum on Education Abroad): Recognized by the US federal governement as the Standards Development Organization for education abroad, the goal of the Forum’s Standards of Good Practice is to improve practices in education abroad, so that students’ international educational experiences are as rich and meaningful as possible.
Standards of Good Practice for Short-Term Education Abroad Programs (2009) (Forum on Education Abroad): This initiative recognizes the growth of student participation in short-term programs and responds to the expressed need for a more specific set of standards that apply to short-term programs. The Standards for Short-Term Programs are not a substitute for the broader Standards, but are intended to act as a companion to provide the most comprehensive guidance for short-term program development and management.
Publications for Purchase
Where Faculty Live: Internationalizing the Disciplines (ACE): This paper, which suggests using global learning outcomes to internationalize the academic disciplines, was founded on the premises that internationalizing the curriculum is the most important strategy institutions can use to instill the knowledge and skills students will need in a globalized world, and that discussions of internationalization must be grounded in departmental and disciplinary conversations.
Engaging Diverse Viewpoints: What is the Campus Climate for Perspective-Taking (AAC&U): Engaging Diverse Viewpoints focuses on whether—and which—environments promote students’ abilities to understand and be informed by perspectives that differ from their own. The report presents findings from a unique campus climate assessment tool—administered in 2007 to 24,000 students and 9,000 academic administrators, faculty, and student affairs professionals at twenty-three colleges and universities.
Programs & Institutes
AAC&U 2011 Annual Meeting (AAC&U): This year’s conference, Global Positioning: Essential Learning, Student Success, and the Currency of U.S. Degrees, asked participants, “what is the global position of liberal education?” Scroll through the meeting program to find session powerpoints and handouts, plenary speech transcripts, and other useful resources. AAC&U’s Annual Meeting is held each year in January.
Shared Futures: General Education for a Global Century Call for Participation (AAC&U): This curriculum and faculty development project seeks to redefine and reinvigorate general education by focusing its attention on global interdependence, American pluralism, social responsibility, scientific literacy, and integrative inquiry through high-impact, interdisciplinary learning.
Community College Toolkit for International Recruitment (AACC/The College Board): is a one-and-a-half day professional development seminar focused on tools and models for international education programs, from strategic planning and budgets to practical recruitment and marketing tips, admission procedures, and student services and retention.
The Fulbright Scholar Program (IIE): administers numerous programs that provide around 1100 opportunities, short and long, for faculty to internationalize their lecturing and research. There are numerous programs and awards that are specifically designed for educational administrators and that work with all classifications of colleges, universities, and other educational establishments. Fulbright has strong ties to Minority-Serving Institutions, community and liberal arts colleges helping as they internationalize curricula.
General Education for Global Learning (AAC&U): An active program to develop global learning in pedagogical and structural elements of general education. Faculty development institutes have been central to the success of this program, and their design can be demonstrative for other schools that hope to work with their faculty and staff in this way. Please see the resources online from Curriculum and Faculty Development Institutes of 2006 and 2007.
Internationalization Collaborative (ACE): The Collaborative is a forum for teams of faculty and administrators to share ideas and help one another in furthering internationalization on their campuses.
Internationalization Laboratory (ACE): ACE staff work with institutions over a 16- to 20-month period to help them deepen internationalization on their campuses.
Promoting Study Abroad at the Community College: What Works Best (AACC/IIE): is a workshop conducted each spring (March) at the IIE headquarters in New York City that is ideal for community college representatives who are looking for ideas to grow their international programs and to promote study abroad on their campus.
