Agents of Change

International educators are agents of positive change, taking part in collaborative work that binds people, states, and nations closer together. All those in academia—from faculty to administrators, from staff to students—are rapidly becoming aware of how their innovative engagements with shared social and global responsibilities can facilitate change. 

As activist Malala Yousafzai aptly puts it, “One child, one teacher, one book, and one pen can change the world.” It is important to acknowledge the strength and the humility of this message. Indeed, the concept of change is at once simple and complex. 

Teaching, learning, and scholarship have great power inherent within them as they glue together the network of international educators worldwide. Curriculum internationalization, research that informs practice, and intercultural communication all serve a wide audience on campus: faculty, administrators, graduate students and postdocs, researchers, intercultural trainers, cross-cultural counselors, and other professionals in international education. 

Operating at the Nexus of International Education

International educators in the areas of teaching, learning, and scholarship are on the leading edge of knowledge, research, and skill development that encourage and advance positive change practices. These practices, in turn, result 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. 

From identifying and setting trends in the field to reflecting on cutting-edge research, part of this work involves supporting those who are new in their journeys across the field of international education, whether in education abroad, leadership, enrollment and admissions