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Leaders In International Higher Education
2011 Annual Conference Workshops
Sunday, February 20,8:00 AM-Noon
CGACC / AIEA: 2+2: Community Colleges and Universities Working Together
The global middle class is growing as is the global demand for International Higher Education. It is projected that student mobility will grow 70% by the year 2025. However as more countries get into global recruitment, U.S. is losing its global market shares due to the perception of high education costs, and the budget cuts that is effecting all institutions of higher Education and visa issues.
What can U.S. Institutions do to remain globally competitive?
The answer lies in enhancing, articulating and marketing of 2+2 jointly by four year institutions and community colleges. The 2+2 process provides huge savings to students and all institutions of higher education. As the global middle class grows the 2+2 can bring affordability of a U.S. Degree to these families who would have otherwise looked at other countries.
This will be a Working Workshop format where university SIOs and community college SIOs will roll-up-their-sleeves, put-these-principles-to-work and walk away with some preliminary agreements.
This session will put into use already existing articulation agreements, joint marketing strategies and success models give credibility to 2+2 globally and eliminate myths about 2+2, possibly including the creation of standard "fact sheets" to be used worldwide create a joint strategic global plan leverage articulation agreements for US student visa success abroad. Each participant leaves with specific ideas, tailored to his or her unique workplace environment, that can be implemented the next day - and almost always with no cost.
Presenters:
Fanta Aw - Assistant Vice President of Student Life at the American University in Washington, D.C. Aw has been with the American University staff since 1992. Prior to her appointment as the Assistant Vice President of Campus Life in 2007, she served the International Student and Scholar Services (ISSS) department as Director. Under her leadership, ISSS received national and international recognition for the quality of its intercultural programs and services.
Carol Fimmen – Director of International Programs at The Alamo Colleges (ACC). Previously, Fimmen was the director of the Office of Global Education in the College of Business and Technology at Western Illinois University. She has served as a consultant to the Asian Development Bank Institute, the TIESWEB Organization in Paris, the American Council on Education, the Consortium for North American Higher Collaboration and the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education. She also was a founding board member of the International Leadership Association and has served in various capacities with the American Association of University Administrators, the Multicultural Commission of the National Academic Advising Association and the Leadership Development Board for the U.S. Department of Education TRIO programs.
Ross Jennings - Vice President of International Programs at Green River Community College in Auburn, WA, USA. In addition to his duties at Green River, Jennings consults professionally in international student recruitment and program development. He served as an international student advisor at Edmonds Community College before coming to Green River in 1993, and he has served as chair of Study Washington as well as the Association of Washington International Student Affairs. Jennings was in the Peace Corps in Morocco for two years and worked as a teacher and oil company representative for ten years in Saudi Arabia and Iran.
Zepur Solakian - Executive Vice President, Global Communication and Public Relations, Center for Global Advancement of Community Colleges (CGACC). Solakian also serves as Chair of Destination California. For the last several years, she has played a key role in helping the American Association of Community Colleges develop a global international recruitment program for U.S. community colleges. While Director of Marketing at California State University - Dominguez Hills, she worked with NGOs and universities worldwide, including consulting on educational projects with Johnson & Johnson Europe / Middle East, DDB, Khaleej Times, Hurriyet Newspaper (Turkey).Sunday, February 20,
8:00
AM-Noon
SIO 201
Continues the discussion of
successful leadership and management during university transition towards total
campus internationalization and global engagement by highlighting the current
trends and challenges faced by SIO's. Experienced SIO's will discuss
identifying, serving and leveraging your campus constituents and overseas
partners, developing creative resource solutions, and institutional compliance.
This workshop is designed for SIO's who have served in their leadership roles
for several years (i.e. 3 years or more).
Presenters:
Marjory Gooding - Director of the International Offices at the California Institute of Technology and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. Gooding has worked in the international offices at the University of Colorado at Boulder, the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, and MIT.
JoAnn McCarthy – consultant on the internationalization of higher education. She has spent twenty-five years in teaching and academic administration, most recently as Assistant Provost for International Affairs at the University of Pennsylvania. She is a past president of the Association of International Education Administrators (AIEA) and served as chair of the International Education Leadership Knowledge Community of NAFSA. She served on many national and international advisory boards and is a frequent consultant, author, and speaker on the internationalization of higher education, the changing dynamics of student/faculty mobility, and the emerging role of the research university in global civil society.
Sunday, February 20,
1:00PM – 5:00PM
IEAA / AIEA: Entrepreneurial International Education: The Australian Experience
The success of the last 25 years of active international engagement by
Australian education institutions has brought international education to
the forefront of the thinking not only of the institutions, but also
governments, media and the Australian community generally.
Australian education business models have resulted in over 600,000
international students studying in Australia, with a further 100,000
studying Australian qualifications offshore. Education is Australia’s
largest service export, ahead of tourism. It has transformed Australian
education universities and the Australian community in fundamental ways.
While the international student program is at the heart of the
internationalization of Australian universities, international networks,
the internationalization of staff, curricula and research, the outbound
mobility of domestic students, transnational education, international
development assistance and the internationalization of student services
are equally central. Security, safety and social inclusion of
international students and the importance of international students for
Australia’s future innovation, research and economic development broadly
are also increasingly central. The institutions face major challenges
in terms of future growth, international competition and the effective
use of international partnerships and networks.
This workshop will build on the outcomes of a joint AIEA-IEAA Symposium,
Enhancing US-Australia Cooperation in International Education, held in
Sydney in October 2010. The workshop will focus on the educational,
business, public policy and community aspects of Australian
international education. Case studies of successful practice, as well as
examples of current challenges and responses to them, will be presented
and discussed, with a view to active and critical dialogue between
workshop participants.
Presenters:
Stephen Connelly - Deputy Vice-Chancellor International and
Development and Vice-President at RMIT University. Prior, he spent five
years at Swinburne University of Technology as Pro Vice Chancellor
(International) and later as Deputy Vice Chancellor (Development and
Engagement). He spent seven years at La Trobe University as Director of
International Marketing and then Director of the International Programs
Office. Since 2009, Stephen has been President of the International
Education Association Australia (IEAA).
Jennie Lang - Pro Vice-Chancellor International University of
New South Wales, Sydney. Jennie is recognized as one of the pioneers of
international education in Australia. Her contribution to promoting
Australian education abroad has been acknowledged with an Export Heroes
Award from the Australian Institute of Export. In 2004, she was named
Telstra Business Woman of the Year in the NSW Community and Government
category.
Sunday, February 20,
1:00PM -9:00 PM
Note: There will be a break for dinner. Dinner will not be included in the cost of the workshop. A list of eateries on site and close to hotel will be provided.
May You Live in Interesting Times: Career Planning and Management for International Education Leaders Today
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.”
This seems to describe the international education field fairly accurately these days. While recognition of the importance of international education has never been greater, fundamental shifts in higher education and a lagging economy have combined to challenge us in a variety of ways.
As the context around us changes, we, too, need to change and adapt. This workshop builds on past career workshops, but focuses specifically on what we need to do now, in this economy and this setting, to create and maintain an effective professional presence for ourselves, and to continue to lead the international agenda at our institutions.
The workshop is designed for people who now occupy positions of leadership in international education, whether as an overall SIO, or as the leader of a significant section of international activity within a larger structure. The workshop will focus on three main things:
- Developing yourself as an effective and visionary leader;
- Communicating your skills, experience and vision to others; and
- Maintaining yourself, your office, and your program in the face of economic and organizational challenges.
The workshop will be highly interactive.
Presenters:
Kit Nichols - Vice President of Auerbach Associates, Inc. Nichols leads both academic and administrative searches, with a focus on the arts and international affairs. Recent searches include the Directory and Deputy Director searches at the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory at the National University of Singapore, Vice Provost for International Programs at the University of Virginia, and Vice President for International Affairs at Brown University. She is currently working on the search for the Director of the Asian Civilisations Museum, one of the national museums of Singapore.
Riall Nolan - Professor of Anthropology at Purdue University. His office oversees study abroad, international students and scholars, strategy and policy development for overseas activities, and the development of international linkages. Dr. Nolan was also Associate Provost and Dean of International Programs at Purdue University. Trained as a social anthropologist, he has managed international programs at both the University of Pittsburgh and the University of Cincinnati before joining Purdue in 2003. Nolan is active in both NAFSA and AIEA, and he presents frequently on issues of international education practice and strategy.Monday, February 21,
8:00 AM-Noon
Connective Leadership
Connective Leadership offers a model for global transformation of higher education that is relevant to the International Education field. This model embraces a balanced approach that includes competition and collaboration as well as instrumental achieving styles as means toward effective leadership. At the core of the Connective Leadership model is the recognition that we live in an increasingly interconnected world; which in turn brings us into contact with richly diverse populations. Participants will gain:
- An understanding of the Connective Leadership Model
- Insight into their own achieving (leadership) styles by taking an online exam in advance
- Learn how to apply this model to their own, their staff & faculties’, & their students’ development
Chris Cartwright - doctoral student in Educational Leadership at Portland State University. Cartwright is currently the Director of Intercultural Assessment for the Intercultural Communication Institute. Earlier, he was Dean of Academic Programs for the International Partnership for Service Learning and Leadership and a Continuing Educator for Portland State University.
Jean Lipman-Blumen - Director of the Connective leadership Institute, and the Thornton F. Bradshaw Professor of Public Policy and Professor of Organizational Behavior at the Peter F. Drucker/Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA. Lipman-Blumen has served as assistant director of the National Institute of Education, and as special advisor to the Domestic Policy Staff in the White House under President Carter, she consulted for various governments and private sector organizations. She was also the president of L-BS International, Ltd., a management consulting and public policy research firm. Her book, The Connective Edge: Leading in an Interdependent World was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. Hot Groups: Seeding Them, Feeding Them, and Using Them to Ignite Your Organization, with Harold J. Leavitt, professor emeritus, Stanford Graduate School of Business, was the American Publishers' Association "Business Book of the Year." Her most recent book is The Allure of Toxic Leaders: Why We Follow.Monday, February 21,
8:00 AM-Noon
AIRC / AIEA: Recruiting International Students—Strategies for Growing International Student Enrollment
This workshop is for international educators at universities who are attempting to expand their institutional enrollment of international students. The workshop will focus heavily on working with agents who specialized in recruiting students for the U.S. market. Topics will include: the advantages in using agents for recruitment, selecting the right agents, and contracting and commissions. The workshop presenters will also review the development of “best practices” for agents that has been done by the American International Recruitment Council (AIRC). Other recruitment initiatives such as recruitment fairs will also be covered in the workshop.
Presenters:
Stephen Paul Foster - Associate Vice President for International Affairs at Wright State University. Foster has held administrative and teaching positions at Central Michigan University, the University of Arkansas, and St. Louis University. He is responsible for international programs at Wright State University, including the recruitment of international students, and has been active with the American International Recruitment Council (AIRC) since its inception two years ago, where serves as AIRC's Vice President.
Pia Wood – Associate Provost and Director of International Education, and an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville. Wood was previously the Director of International Studies at Wake Forest University. She has served in a number of elected positions, including President of ISA-South, Executive Board of AIEA, and AIEA Editor, and she has been an External Reviewer for Title VI-A Grants, for Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad, for International Research and Studies Program (Dept. of Education) and for the Gilman Scholarships. She was the President of the Association of International Education Administrators in 2009.