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Early Registration (by December 15):
Member: $125 Non-Member: $225 |
Regular Registration (after December 15):
Member: $125 Non-Member: $275 |
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From Purpose to Practice: Exploring Consulting Pathways in International Education
January 22 from 1:00 - 3:30 pm ET As the international education landscape evolves, many professionals are reimagining their careers and seeking new ways to apply their expertise. This interactive workshop offers a guided exploration of consulting as a meaningful next step—whether full-time or alongside other pursuits. Participants will learn how to develop the needed mindset and identify their transferable skills; explore potential consulting scenarios; and gain practical strategies for designing flexible, purpose-driven career pathways within and beyond higher education. 
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Chair: Rajika Bhandari |
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Developing Proficiencies in the Domains of Professional Practice for Aspiring Senior International Leaders
February 3 from 1:00 - 3:30 pm ET Special Price - $25 for all participants Professional development is essential for acquiring the skills and proficiencies necessary to serve in a senior international leadership role. This workshop guides aspiring senior international leaders in using the four broad domains of AIEA’s Standards of Professional Practice to acquire the skills and abilities necessary for such roles. Using their own experiences and professional growth, presenters will share their paths to developing the proficiencies with each domain. They will also guide participants in the development of a personalized plan for advancing their professional development with these standards. 
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Participants will:
Presenters: Leslie Bozeman,Chrishon Blackwell, Chrissie Faupel, Elizabeth Langridge-Noti |
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Strategic Budgeting and Resource Management for International Education Leaders
February 10, 2:00 pm- 4:30 pm Strategic budgeting is essential for attaining an institution’s internationalization goals. This interactive workshop focuses on budgeting strategies and resource management, and provides participants from all areas of international education with the knowledge and tools to build a budgeting system for the international office. The workshop will also help participants to align the goals for internationalization initiatives with the institution’s vision, mission, and priorities. 
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Presenters: Jill Blondin, Paulo Zagalo-Melo |
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This workshop explores how your institution can develop a purposeful international partnership strategy that results in an effective portfolio of linkages that advance the institution, engage a wide range of faculty, staff, and students, and can be sustained over time. Experienced practitioners provide research findings, practical knowledge, and models for establishing the goals, criteria, policies, supports, and processes that foster partnership success and bring clarity and intentionality to partnership decision-making. Geared towards international education professionals with several years of experience, especially those who are responsible for partnership building at their institutions, the workshop equips participants with the basics of how to plan, organize, initiate, sustain, and evaluate partnerships between their home institutions and those in other countries.
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Participants will:
Chair: Sylvia Jons
Presenters: Tim Barnes, Cori Crisfield, Susan Buck Sutton, Stacy Burger |
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This interactive workshop employs the Socratic method to examine fundamental assumptions underlying internationalization. Participants will engage in systematic questioning to identify internationalization drift—the deviation from educational missions toward market-driven goals. Through guided inquiry examining institutional culture and leadership capacity, attendees will explore tensions and paradoxes, engaging in the frame-breaking dialogue necessary to challenge existing paradigms. The session emphasizes transformative dialogue and institutional analysis rather than passive knowledge transfer, positioning internationalization as higher education's emerging fourth macro mission.
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To be effective change agents, SIOs must navigate divergent contexts, rationales, and politics at institutions and beyond. This leadership development workshop will help SIOs build consensus and advance internationalization, by working more effectively across communication styles, roles, and priorities. Utilizing various role playing and scenario settings, where participants explore the complexity of stakeholder voices, motivations, and practices, SIOs will better understand the landscapes in which they work and advance international engagement. 
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Participants will:
Presenters: Hilary Kahn, Vesna Dimitrieska |
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This workshop will both encourage participants to dream big about their careers, and engage them in a step-by-step process to chart their path to success. In short presentations, group work, and individual exercises, we will identify the education, experience, skills, and qualities they have now and may need to attain to move into their desired roles at institutions of higher education and with other employers. Participants will also learn tips to improve how they present their professional accomplishments.
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