Relationship Cultivation

IEM SPOTLIGHT NEWSLETTER, VOL. 16, Fall ISSUE - November 2018 By: Mark Ashwill, Capstone Vietnam Economic Growth in Vietnam Vietnam has been opening its doors to the international community and pursuing global economic integration at breakneck speed in recent years.

IEM Spotlight Newsletter, Vol. 14, Issue 4 - April 2017 By: Susanne Kammüller, German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) In recent years, Germany has come forward as a major, distinct actor within the transnational education (TNE) sphere. As in other countries,

IEM Spotlight Newsletter, Vol. 14, Issue 4 - April 2017 By: Mark Frederiks, PhD, Accreditation Organisation of The Netherlands and Flanders (NVAO) and the European Consortium for Accreditation in Higher Education (ECA) In Europe, joint programs play an important role

IEM Spotlight Newsletter, Vol. 14, Issue 4 - April 2017 By: John T. Crist, PhD, George Mason University Korea Among the many thousands of cross-border educational collaborations that exist around the world, the international branch campus (IBC) is the most

IEM Spotlight Newsletter, Vol. 14, Issue 4 - April 2017 By: Vasiliki Goudanas Mavroudhis, Northeastern University Transnational education (TNE) can take on various forms of delivery. For some people it might mean teaching partnerships, for others it might entail branch

IEM Spotlight Newsletter, Vol. 14, Issue 4 - April 2017 By: Thy Yang, Norwich University The development of sister school relationships between institutions from two or more countries is an established practice within higher education. Traditionally, formal agreements have been

IEM Spotlight Newsletter, Vol. 13, Issue 2 - August 2016 Current events in Iraq have made it more challenging than usual to build partnerships with Iraqi universities or recruit Iraqi students. The conflict caused by Da’esh (also known as ISIS

IEM Spotlight Newsletter, Vol. 13, Issue 2 - August 2016 As Iraq continues to grapple with instability, higher education has a growing strategic role to play in stabilizing and promoting the recovery of civil society, economic growth, and national security

For many of us in IEM, we are considered to be road warriors. We can conquer high school visits individually, or sometimes we go as a platoon. Occasionally, when the territory is unfamiliar and new, we go as a battalion.