Knowledge Community Update

Third Quarter 2007

NAFSA's Knowledge Communities have grown tremendously during the past 3 months. The Education Abroad Knowledge Community was reorganized into 4 new networks, resources were created and updated across the Knowledge Communities, and each network continued to gain subscriptions.

Education Abroad

• Developed Moving Ahead, a three-year plan with 5 special initiatives and 2 priority focus areas to help guide their work.
• Launched three new professional networks to assist visitors in finding the resources they need more quickly:
  • Advising & Recruitment in Education Abroad
  • Developing and Managing Programs Abroad
  • Managing an Education Abroad Office

• Launched a new special focus network - with input from NAFSA's Public Policy department - to help U.S. campuses prepare for increasing demand for study abroad as well as assist them in understanding the Simon Study Abroad Act.
• E-Publication By Example: Resources for Education Abroad Offices and Advisers was updated with additional information.
• Toolkit for the Small Education Abroad Office - new 4 hour CEP workshop created to offer at regional conferences will debut at two conferences this fall.

International Education Leadership

• Collegial Conversations, short articles on selected CIEO's views of the field, have been published monthly during the academic year. September's conversations featured John Greisberger and Riall Nolan.
• New practice resource category added to the CIEL Network, Funding Resources and Issues which provides links to funding sources such as the Fulbright Programs, FIPSE and PIRE.

International Student & Scholar Services

• Developed 3-5 year strategic plan with 6 special initiatives during leadership retreat in Colorado
• 2 Collegial Conversations: Tips for Writing a Successful Session Proposal for NAFSA's 2008 Annual Conference, OPT
• New and Updated Practice Resources: Identifying an Immigration Attorney, Internet Resources for Community Programming
• Webinar Got I.T.? Advancing Technology in ISSS, featured three ISSS offices.
• New chair for 2008: Janice Bogen will assume the slot vacated by Hanya Redwan.

Recruitment, Admissions and Preparation

• New and Updated Practice Resources: Health Insurance Companies, Graduate Study in the U.S.

Teaching, Learning and Scholarship

• Updated their resource on Research-Based Publications on International Education
• Updated the IaH: Overview & Background practice resource
• Jointly charged a task force to update the very popular Intercultural Activity Toolkit

KCCC Task Forces

• Under the auspices of the Bologna Task Force, issued The Bologna Process: An Opportunity for International
  Cooperation , as a supplement to the September/October International Educator magazine. It is on the Web site as a free e-Publication at www.nafsa.org/bolognasupplement. Copies will be available at each regional conference and will be distributed in December annual conference of the Council of Graduate Schools.
• Members of the Bologna Task Force are presenting the session "Developing a Policy Response to the Bologna Process" at each regional conference. The presentation with notes will be available in the Document Library on the Bologna Process Special Focus Network.