1st Edition

Comprehensive Internationalization Institutional pathways to success

By John K. Hudzik Copyright 2015
    300 Pages 27 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    300 Pages 27 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    This book is a timely insight into the internationalization of higher education institutions. The internationalization of higher education is a global phenomenon, but with substantial variation in how it is made operational in individual institutions. Comprehensive Internationalization focuses on desirable practices in institutions and their actual approaches to implement a more integrated, strategic, or comprehensive global engagement across their core missions: teaching, research, and service.    

    Part I of the book investigates a wide range of issues governing the internationalization of institutions:

      • Outlining the origins, meaning and evolution toward more strategic and comprehensive forms of internationalization;
      • building an understanding of the meanings of comprehensive internationalization, as well as common aspirations, when linked to different types of institutions;
      • understanding the rationales and motivations for internationalization and intended results;
      • creating an institutional vision and culture to support comprehensive internationalization;
      • and implementing key strategies for successful internationalization in terms of practical actions and programs and results, including identifying and ameliorating barriers, engaging organizational change, assessing outcomes, and obtaining resources.

    Part II of the book offers case stories from institutions across the globe which describe varying pathways toward more comprehensive internationalization. Institutions were chosen to reflect the diversity of higher education and approaches to internationalization. An analysis of the cases uncovers similarities and differences, as well as common lessons to be learned. With contributions from mainland Europe, Australia, the USA, the UK, Latin America, Singapore and South Africa, the global application of the book is unparalleled.

    Comprehensive Internationalization will be of vital interest to a wide variety of higher education institutional leaders and managers as they address the problems and solutions for institutional internationalization available to them in a rapidly changing educational world and a 21st Century global environment.

    Acknowledgements

    Series Forward

    Introduction

    Part I

    Chapter 1:

    Comprehensive Internationalization: Roots, Aspects, and Evolution

    Chapter 2:

    Trends, Environments, and Organization Shaping Comprehensive Internationalization

    Chapter 3:

    Motivations and Rationales for Comprehensive Internationalization

    Chapter 4:

    Comprehensive Internationalization: From Rhetoric and Concept to Reality

    Chapter 5:

    Barriers and Barrier Reduction for Comprehensive Internationalization

    Chapter 6:

    Measuring Outcomes from Institutional Comprehensive Internationalization

    Chapter 7:

    Sustainable Resources for Comprehensive Internationalization

    PART II Institutional Case Stories

    Chapter 8:

    Beloit College: Internationalization in the American Midwest. Elizabeth Brewer

    Chapter 9:

    Embedding Internationalization at the University of Helsinki. Markus Laitinen

    Chapter 10:

    Strategic Internationalization in Sweden: The Cases of Lund University and Blekinge Institute of Technology. Hans Pohl and Andreas Gothenberg

    Chapter 11:

    Michigan State University: Origins and Evolution of the Institution Toward a Global Frame. Dawn Thorndike Pysarchik and John K. Hudzik

    Chapter 12:

    Internationalization of Higher Education—The Nanyang Technological University Story: Perspectives and Experience from the Lion City. Bertil Andersson and Tony Mayer

    Chapter 13:

    Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University: Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape, South Africa. Nico Jooste

    Chapter 14:

    "Knowledge Without Borders": Internationalisation Strategy at the University of Nottingham. Christine Ennew

     

     

    Chapter 15:

    Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro: Internationalization, A Well Assembled Puzzle. Rosa Marina and Brito Meyer

    Chapter 16:

    Internationalisation at the University of Queensland: An Institutional Journey. Anna Ciccarelli and Janey Saunders

    Chapter 17

    Connnecting Internationalisation to university Vision: The Swinburne Experience. Melissa Banks

    Chapter 18

    Pathways to Comprehensive Internationalization: Connecting CI Concepts and Strategies with the Institutional Case Stories

    Bibliography

    Index

    Biography

    Professor John K. Hudzik of Michigan State University is past President and Chair of the Board of Directors of NAFSA, Association of International Educators, and also past President of the Association of International Education Administrators (AIEA). He was for nearly 15 years Dean and Vice President of International Programs and Global Engagement at MSU. He is the NAFSA Senior Scholar for Internationalization, recipient of the AIEA Charles Klasek Award, and recipient of the Transatlantic Leadership Award of the European Association for International Education.

    "Comprehensive Internationalization provides a key outlet for understanding institutional approaches to internationalization through case studies from around the world. ... The real strength of this book lies in the case studies ... Through those case studies, the reader gains insights into the role of national policy, the pivotal role of leadership, the importance of maintaining close alignment with the academic mission, and the value of an integrated, ongoing process ... The case studies also provide insights into practical steps that were taken to implement comprehensive internationalization." —International Educator

    "This book examines internationalization within higher educational institutions, focusing on actual approaches to implement a more integrated, strategic or comprehensive global engagement across core missions of teaching, research and engagement." - IAU Horizions