Pathways to Internationalization: 2005 Simon Award Winners

The five winners of NAFSA’s 2005 Senator Paul Simon Award for Campus Internationalization traveled different paths and overcame a diversity of obstacles to achieve the high level of internationalization they currently enjoy. The winners themselves—two private liberal arts institutions, a pair of large state-run universities, and a community college—each took stock of themselves and their environments, capitalizing on their strengths, their communities, and the current events at the time they began their internationalization journeys.

The brief profiles in Pathways provide the reader with a synopsis of some of the important perspectives, reflections, and suggestions that key players on these campuses felt would be helpful to international educators at other colleges and universities who are building their own institutional capacities.

Several of the schools considered their geographic location an important factor in the need for or direction of their internationalization efforts. Some capitalized on their ability to obtain funding for centers and programs. Others focused first on faculty, international students, curriculum, or study abroad.

Each profile ends with quotes from faculty and administrators about their internationalization efforts, including advice and comments they felt would be helpful to others embarking on their own journey of campus internationalization.

A more complete story of the paths these institutions took is available in the NAFSA report Internationalizing the Campus 2005: Profiles of Success at Colleges and Universities.


   
   








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U.S. Department of State, under the authority of the
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