Teaching, Learning, and Scholarship Knowledge Community

The Teaching, Learning, and Scholarship knowledge community (TLS) fosters connections among scholarship, policy, and practice in international education.

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Three networks support TLS activities:

Research and Scholarship Network

This network serves those interested in current research in international education, emerging research trends, graduate-level research opportunities, and applying research as an international education professional.
Intercultural Communication & Training Network

This network serves those interested in intercultural learning theory, cross-cultural counseling/advising theory, and intercultural training techniques.
Internationalizing Teaching, Learning, and Curriculum

Serving professionals and faculty interested in implementing internationalization initiatives that impact teaching, learning, and curriculum in higher education.

TLS Mission Statement

Equipping NAFSA members and other educators with the knowledge, research, and skills they need to engage in, encourage and support positive change practices that results in the infusion of international, intercultural, and global knowledge into the ethos and outcomes of their own work and, more broadly, the work of their organizations.

To accomplish its mission, TLS:

1. Identifies and makes accessible, within and beyond NAFSA, new and existing theoretical and empirical knowledge that improves practice.
2. Brings innovative people, concepts, structures, and ideas to NAFSA conferences and other educational programming.
3. Works with others to identify gaps in research and knowledge and engages the membership in filling those gaps.
4. Promotes dialogue that motivates scholars, educators, practitioners, and administrators to collaboratively internationalize their organizations.

TLS Leadership Team

NAFSA members may contact leaders through the online membership directory. Nonmembers can contact leaders by submitting a request form to one of the network leaders listed below.

• David Shallenberger, chair
  World Learning
• Lou Berends, chair elect
  SIT Study Abroad - World Learning
• Joe Hoff, past chair
  University of Richmond
• Christina Sanchez, intercultural communication and training network leader
  University of North Carolina, Charlotte
• Ghada Adel Masri, internationalizing teaching, learning, and curriculum network leader
  Marymount College-Palos Verdes
• Ji-Yeung Jang, research and scholarship network leader
  University of Minnesota
• Sue Mennicke, 2013 annual conference committee member
  Franklin and Marshall College
• C.K. Kwai, subcommittee on training coordination member
  University of North Carolina
• Lori Reynolds, subcommittee on information management member
  Intercultural Solutions, LLC

Network Leaders

• Research and Scholarship Network
• Intercultural Communication and Training Network
• Internationalizing Teaching, Learning, and Curriculum Network