NAFSA’s former senior research librarian and curator of NAFSA Research Connections, Tamar Breslauer, considers the many definitions of “mobility” and the impacts of different mobilities on international higher education.
Every college and university today wants to prepare students who are global citizens. The aim is spelled out in mission statements and carried out in action plans that engage faculty, administrators, staff, and students inside and outside the classroom in
From Trends & Insights, February 2016, Dr. Desai-Trilokekar explores the possible negative implications of a national policy on internationalization by looking specifically at the Canada case.
The AAUP's Role in a Globalized, Competitive Higher Education Landscape By Laura M. Portnoi and Sylvia S. Bagley Note: A slightly different version of this article first appeared in Academe, November-December 2015, Volume 101, Number 6. NAFSA thanks the
Researchers who have measured the impact of study abroad and other international learning experiences have found that they have a positive impact on academic, educational, and professional outcome measures.
Members of NAFSA’s Research Team had the pleasure of talking with Ellen Hazelkorn, PhD, an expert on higher education internationalization, who is currently based in Ireland. We spoke about a range of topics, including how globalization has affected higher education worldwide; the influence of the
This article was originally published on The Conversation . This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License . Kevin Kinser is a NAFSA senior fellow for internationalization. BY KEVIN KINSER Last spring, a New York University professor
The following article originally appeared in Diversity & Democracy, a publication of the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U). AAC&U invites readers to learn more about preparing students to effectively engage global challenges by attending the Network for
At the NAFSA 2015 Annual Conference in Boston, I was flattered to be asked to offer a keynote to an inaugural gathering of chief academic officers. The focus of the keynote was threefold: what global achievements was I most proud of? What were my main regrets—where do I wish I/we had done more? And