IaH: Overview and Background

  April 10, 2008

"Internationalization at Home" (IaH) was introduced by Bengt Nilsson in 1998 at Malmö University in Sweden. The key idea is to develop a conceptually integrated systems approach to international education that encompasses the entire university. Its main goal is to have international education pervade the university so that all students (as well as faculty and staff) are internationally engaged at some point during their college careers.

Introduction to IaH

These materials provide a quick overview of the main ideas in IaH:

• Mestenhauser, J.A. (2003). Building Bridges (1.5m ). International Educator, Summer 2003, pp. 6-11.
  
  
• Mestenhauser, J. (2007) PowerPoint from the NAFSA 2007 Annual Conference & Expo Expert Speaker Series. Bridging the gaps between what we say we do, what we actually do, and what people experience (814kb ). 
  
  
• Nilsson, B. (2003). Internationalisation at Home From a Swedish Perspective: The Case of Malmö. Journal of Studies in International Education, 7, (1), 27-40.

Further Reading

The reports, articles, white papers, books, and Web sites below provide a more in-depth look at campus internationalization.

Print publications

American Council on Education. 1995. Educating Americans for a World in Flux: Ten Ground Rules for Internationalizing Higher Education.

Biddle, Sheila. 2002. Internationalization: Rhetoric or reality? American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Occasional Paper, January 2002.

Dalton, J.C. (Ed.) 1999. Beyond Borders: How International Developments are Changing Student Affairs Practice: New Directions for Student Services, No. 86. Jossey-Bass: San Francisco.

Duderstadt, J.J. and Weber, L.E. (Eds.). 2008. The Globalization of Higher Education. Economica: Paris.

Green, M.F. and Olson, C. 2003. Internationalizing the Campus: A User’s Guide. American Council on Education: Center for Institutional and International Initiatives.

Heyl, John D. 2007. The Senior International Officer (SIO) as Change Agent. Association of International Education Administrators

Lim, G.C. (Ed.). 2003. Strategy for a Global University. Visiting International Professional Programs, Board of Trustees, Michigan State University.

Nilsson, B. and Otten, M. (Eds.). 2003. Journal of Studies in International Education, 7 (1), Spring 2003. Special Issue: Internationalisation at Home.

Olson, C.L., Green, M.F., and Hill, B.A. 2005. Building a Strategic Framework for Comprehensive Internationalization. American Council on Education: Center for Institutional and International Initiatives.

Web sites

Internationalisation at Home, Web site of Malmö University, Sweden.

Söderqvist, M. and Parsons, C. (2005). Effective strategic management of internationalization.
European Association for International Education, Occasional Paper 18.

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