Unit 1. Comprehensive Internationalization Leadership & Strategy
Comprehensive Internationalization Leadership and Strategy is the first unit of NAFSA’s Executive Internationalization Leadership e-Institute. This unit lays the groundwork for the rest of the program by providing a common understanding of key topics essential to strategic and successful leadership for comprehensive internationalization—leadership competencies, strategic planning, and stakeholder engagement.
Unit 2. Administration
Comprehensive internationalization strategies must be implemented to be successful. The key to successful implementation is effective administration. This unit will cover essential administrative considerations such as financial stewardship, human resources, physical space management, and risk management.
Unit 3. Academic Engagement & Integration
Academic Engagement & Integration are key to successful comprehensive internationalization initiatives. This unit highlights ways in which leaders can engage academics and research so that internationalization may be integrated into the (co)curriculum and access to global and intercultural learning opportunities is available to a diverse cross-section of students, faculty, and staff.
Unit 4. Partnerships & Outreach
Partnerships and outreach are essential to the success of comprehensive internationalization strategies. This unit will highlight how to develop, nurture, and (re)evaluate different types of partnerships—international partnerships, corporate/industry/nongovernmental partnerships—and strategies for effective communication, advocacy, and outreach to different internal and external stakeholders.
E-Institute Learning Outcomes
Throughout this 10-month program, participants will work closely with the e-Institute faculty, other experts, and members of their cohort to develop key leadership skills designed to aid executive level international education leaders.
By the conclusion of this program, participants will be able to:
- Enhance leadership skills to support innovation, advocacy, and capacity building;
- Evaluate strengths and identify skill gaps of the international office in order to introduce relevant training;
- Understand core principals of effective financial planning and stewardship of resources;
- Work with institutional leadership to plan, nurture, and grow the depth and breadth of internationalization supporting the ethics and values of their unique environment;
- Employ strategies to engage a mixture of stakeholders across and outside the institution in order to provide diverse populations of students and scholars access to global learning opportunities;
- Stimulate the development and maintenance of key local and global partnerships;
- Devise a broad strategy and timeline to develop, monitor, evaluate, and sustain comprehensive internationalization strategies across their institution; and
- Develop relationships with peer international education leaders to expand their professional network.