AAC&U LEAP Campus Toolkit (AAC&U): an interactive library for campus practitioners and other educators to access concise, useful research narratives, examples of campus work, and assessment instruments. Click “global learning” in the word cloud for promising practices and recent publications from the field.
Shared Futures: Global Learning and Liberal Education (pdf) (AAC&U): A monograph on the evolution of global learning in the curriculum and throughout the institutional structure. Print copies are also available.
Strategic Plan Enhancing The Global Engagement of Land-Grant Universities (APLU): The International Agriculture Section (IAS) of the Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities stands ready to support President Obama’s inauguration pledge: “To the people of poor nations, we pledge to work alongside you to make your farms flourish and let clean waters flow; to nourish starved bodies and feed hungry minds.”
Publications for Purchase
A Crucible Moment: College Learning and Democracy’s Future (AAC&U): This report from the National Task Force on Civic Learning and Democratic Engagement calls on the nation and the globe to reclaim higher education’s civic mission.
The Senior International Officer as Change Agent (AIEA): Author John Heyl discusses ways in which senior international officers can help bring about change through internationalization efforts on their campuses.
Strategic Management of Internationalization (NAFSA): presents an overview of building and maintaining programs and systems. [Archived Webinar, 2007]
Events
AIEA Conference (AIEA): The annual conference of the Association of International Education Administrators addresses “big picture” issues of internationalization including strategic planning.
Programs & Institutes
The Fulbright Program (IIE): This program encourages students, faculty and professionals to experience academic life abroad and, upon return to their home institutions, to become experienced advocates for shaping the international components essential to comprehensive strategic planning efforts.
QUIP (Quality Improvement Program for Education Abroad) (Forum on Education Abroad): is a guided self-study and peer review process, resulting in a comprehensive report and recommendations in the areas of program design, evaluation and assessment, marketing and promotion, student advising, and resources and operations. QUIP’s three types of reviews support an institution’s own quality assurance initiatives and is easily adapted to organizations with different philosophies and infrastructures.
Shared Futures: Global Learning and Social Responsibility (AAC&U): The umbrella AAC&U initiative that creates and supports networks of institutions that strive to develop global learning outcomes as central components of their students’ education.
