A handbook for advancing comprehensive internationalization

This handbook encourages institutions to adopt a strategy for comprehensive internationalization that emphasizes an integrated approach addressing both programmatic inputs and student outcomes. The introduction explains the importance of addressing both inputs and outcomes and the need to develop an integrated and strategic approach to internationalization. The first chapter offers guidance on forming an effective cross-institutional internationalization team and laying the groundwork for team success. Chapter 2 reviews some of the basic issues surrounding assessment of student learning. It outlines assessment and its components: articulating global learning outcomes, gathering evidence of student achievement of those outcomes, interpreting the evidence found, and using the findings to improve student learning. This chapter also explains how global learning outcomes can be put to use in guiding internationalization strategies. Chapter 3 offers advice on how to conduct an audit of an institution's internationalization initiatives. It discusses the scope, focus, and timing of a review. It also outlines the phases of a review, which include launching the review, gathering information, analyzing the findings, and drafting a report based on the findings. While the review process, in and of itself, is a worthwhile exercise in fostering institutional conversations about internationalization, the review should culminate in an internationalization plan that is grounded in the findings of the review. Chapter 4 offers guidance in how to develop an internationalization plan. It encourages institutions to be attentive to such process issues as configuring the planning team, setting priorities, and building support. The chapter outlines the elements of a plan by offering a composite of examples drawn from ACE project institutions. The chapter closes with suggestions for monitoring the plan. [Executive summary, ed].