Knowledge Communities 
Accessing Best Practices in Internationalization
NAFSA has been publishing an annual report titled Internationalizing the Campus: Profiles of Success at Colleges and Universities since 2003. Each year, this publication profiles colleges and universities, highlighting best practices in various aspects of internationalization. The full reports are available online.
It has been suggested that there are rationales, or motivations, common to all institutions that wish to integrate an international dimension into higher education. But what distinguishes certain colleges and universities as more successful in their efforts to internationalization than others? And how can the success of one institution inform the development of similar efforts and practices of others?
This resource allows international educators to search online for the individual profiles that contain information and ideas that are most applicable to their particular situation. Whether you are charged with internationalizing your campus, your division, your department, or if instead you are researching a particular aspect of internationalization, Accessing Best Practices in Internationalization makes the NAFSA reports more immediately accessible to you today.
We recognize that institutions are in their essence very different from each other. We also recognize that each individual may find different criteria or pedagogical approaches to internationalization more useful than others. Therefore, we have categorized each profiled institution by the following criteria:
This resource is the first step in a series of activities designed to assist those engaged in internationalization implementation and research. Use it to identify institutions that have been successful in aspects of internationalization that you are instituting. And read the short summaries of the various types of criteria currently included.
Expansions of this resource will include non-U.S.-based sets of criteria, as well as explanations and comparisons of various internationalization frameworks, approaches, and theories. As you use this resource we invite you to tell us what additions or changes would be helpful to you.
The Teaching, Learning, and Scholarship Knowledge Community gratefully acknowledges the following people who made this resource possible by conducting the needed research during their graduate program at the School for International Training.
Shannon Plath
Matthew Chagnon
Kristin Labs
Took Visudtibhan
* Strategies for Internationalization of Higher Education: Historical and Conceptual Perspectives. In Strategies for Internationalization of Higher Education: A Comparative Study of Australia, Canada, Europe, and the United States of America, edited by Hans de Wit, Amsterdam, European Association for International Education.
It has been suggested that there are rationales, or motivations, common to all institutions that wish to integrate an international dimension into higher education. But what distinguishes certain colleges and universities as more successful in their efforts to internationalization than others? And how can the success of one institution inform the development of similar efforts and practices of others?
This resource allows international educators to search online for the individual profiles that contain information and ideas that are most applicable to their particular situation. Whether you are charged with internationalizing your campus, your division, your department, or if instead you are researching a particular aspect of internationalization, Accessing Best Practices in Internationalization makes the NAFSA reports more immediately accessible to you today.
We recognize that institutions are in their essence very different from each other. We also recognize that each individual may find different criteria or pedagogical approaches to internationalization more useful than others. Therefore, we have categorized each profiled institution by the following criteria:
- Demographics - size and type of institution or NAFSA region
- Internationalization criteria from NAFSA
- Internationalization criteria from the American Council on Education (ACE)
- Strategies from Jane Knight and Hans de Wit (1995)*
This resource is the first step in a series of activities designed to assist those engaged in internationalization implementation and research. Use it to identify institutions that have been successful in aspects of internationalization that you are instituting. And read the short summaries of the various types of criteria currently included.
Expansions of this resource will include non-U.S.-based sets of criteria, as well as explanations and comparisons of various internationalization frameworks, approaches, and theories. As you use this resource we invite you to tell us what additions or changes would be helpful to you.
The Teaching, Learning, and Scholarship Knowledge Community gratefully acknowledges the following people who made this resource possible by conducting the needed research during their graduate program at the School for International Training.
Shannon Plath
Matthew Chagnon
Kristin Labs
Took Visudtibhan
* Strategies for Internationalization of Higher Education: Historical and Conceptual Perspectives. In Strategies for Internationalization of Higher Education: A Comparative Study of Australia, Canada, Europe, and the United States of America, edited by Hans de Wit, Amsterdam, European Association for International Education.
