2022 International Education Week
AASCU’s International Education Week is a collaborative initiative between AASCU, its members and partners, in an effort to highlight and promote programs that prepare students for a global environment.
Learn from the best practices shared during 2022 International Education Week.
The week’s activities featured faculty, staff and students from AASCU institutions whose campuses are doing innovative and exemplary work in these areas.
November 14, 2022
Deliberative Dialogues: Integrating Global Democracy Into Campus Conversations
As a mechanism for encouraging unbiased, factual, and empathetic discussion, deliberative dialogues allow for diverse views and perspectives. Since 2020, AASCU’s American Democracy Project (ADP) has integrated deliberative dialogues into national events and trained a number of facilitators from higher education institutions on how to integrate deliberative dialogues into curricular and cocurricular activities. Watch this session to learn how deliberative dialogues can be integrated on more campuses, especially to expand discussions on global civic responsibility and democratic citizenship. The panel will share best practices to encourage deliberative dialogues as an institutional commitment and to use dialogues as a means to expand the international aspects of their campuses. as well as how institutions can strategically and intentionally support global democratic norms to encourage students to be informed, engaged, and active global citizens.
- Issue Guides from the National Issues Forums Institute to develop deliberative dialogues
- “Why Process Matters” by Martín Carcasson
- Deliberative Pedagogy by Timothy Shaffer
- Creating Space for Democracy by Nicholas Longo and Timothy Shaffer
- Deliberative Citizenship Initiative from Davidson College
- specifically the presentations by Martín Carcasson
- The Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations
- IREX program linking United Nations goals to a class activity, local community, and international virtual exchange
- SUNY’s COIL Center explains COIL (Collaborative Online International Learning) work
November 15, 2022
Fulbright Is for You! A Conversation With Fulbright International Education Administrator Award Alumni
The Fulbright Program is the flagship international education and cultural exchange program for the United States. Because diversity is one of our country’s most defining strengths, the program has a renewed commitment to ensuring that each cohort of scholars represents the full diversity of not only the citizens of the United States but the U.S. higher education landscape. Watch Leigh Lassiter-Counts, U.S. Fulbright alumni ambassador and 2016 Fulbright scholar to Germany, and Fulbright alumni from AASCU institutions in an interactive session geared toward increasing awareness of and encouraging wider participation in Fulbright scholar opportunities.
- Various Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program Awards
- Fulbright International Education Administrators Awards
- Fulbright Association: Chapters all around the country that can also help with mentoring, resources in some cases, and getting speakers to campus—or helping campuses identify who is already a Fulbrighter on their campus:
- Fulbright Student Programs: Discover programs that provide coverage and enrollment to earn master’s degrees while on Fulbright!
- Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence (S-I-R) Program: Host scholars from other countries to teach for a semester or an academic year
- Fulbright Outreach Lecturing Fund (OLF): Host current Fulbright Visiting Scholars for short-term lectureships of 2 to 6 days on discipline or cultural topics to internationalize the campus
- Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant (FLTA) Program: Host native speaking language teaching assistants to enhance students’ understanding of different languages and cultures
November 16, 2022
Student Mobility Between France and the U.S.: Shaping Sustainable Partnerships and Encouraging Innovative Programs
Over the last three years, global student mobility has changed drastically as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, shifting priorities, financial constraints, and looming geopolitical concerns. The U.S. Embassy in France provides updates related to the new transatlantic landscape, outlines the current state of bilateral exchanges, and shares how the situation for student and scholar mobility has evolved. The session also highlights the new priorities, opportunities for collaboration, tools for identifying partners, and pathways that support the development of innovative programs and sustainable partnerships.
- Transatlantic Mobility Program
- 2023 Call for Proposals: Applications will open in April 11, 2023.
- Franco-American Academic Exchanges
NEW: A tool to find a partner for an exchange program, with a French school or university - Fulbright Opportunities
- Host a foreign language instructor on your U.S. campus
- Fulbright-French Government English Teaching Assistantships
- Share your language and culture with French students while teaching in public schools across all regions of metropolitan France and in the overseas departments of France such as French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Martinique, and Réunion
- La Commission Fulbright franco-américaine, en partenariat avec l’Institute of International Education, propose aux étudiants français – titulaires d’au moins une licence – entre 25 et 30 postes d’assistants de langue française aux Etats-Unis
- Devenir assistant de langue française à l’étranger!
November 17, 2022
New Policy, New Models: Exploring Opportunities for Collaboration With Indian Higher Education Institutions
Watch for an update from officials from the Indian Embassy in Washington, D.C., leaders from the University Grants Commission (UGC), All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), the Ministry of Education, and Indian higher education institutions. Session presenters provide informative updates on national education policies and rules governing Indian students studying in the US.
November 18, 2022
Program Development Pipelines: Japan Studies Institute (JSI) + Japan Outreach Initiative (JOI)
The Japan Studies Institute (JSI) is a multidisciplinary, national faculty development institute that has been in existence for nearly 30 years and has provided more than 500 scholars from AASCU institutions the opportunity to immerse themselves in Japanese studies with the goal of incorporating these learnings into their curriculums. In more recent years, alumni of this program and faculty from other AASCU institutions have benefitted from the Japan Outreach Initiative (JOI), which provides capacity-building support by assigning Japanese scholars or professionals to institutions to assist with the development or expansion of Japan-related offerings on U.S. campuses. Learn from the experiences of JSI alumni and explore how this program and the subsequent relationship with the JOI program have impacted scholars’ classrooms, campuses, and communities.
- Japan Studies Institute: (National Faculty Development Institute: “Incorporating Japanese Studies Into the Undergraduate Curriculum”)- Repository of Fellows’ projects, programs, and other resources
- Ideas and opportunities for public/private partnerships, funding, professional development opportunities, etc.
- Laurasian Institution
- Fulbright Opportunities
- Host a foreign language instructor on your U.S. campus
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