Leadership

The AAUP's Role in a Globalized, Competitive Higher Education Landscape By Laura M. Portnoi and Sylvia S. Bagley Note: A slightly different version of this article first appeared in Academe, November-December 2015, Volume 101, Number 6. NAFSA thanks the

At the NAFSA 2015 Annual Conference in Boston, I was flattered to be asked to offer a keynote to an inaugural gathering of chief academic officers. The focus of the keynote was threefold: what global achievements was I most proud of? What were my main regrets—where do I wish I/we had done more? And

Universities’ and scholars’ increasing engagements with the “global”—through increasing study abroad and mobility, overseas partnerships, and more—have been carefully detailed by a variety of scholars (for a recent discussion, see Streitwieser 2014), and have also been thoughtfully and articulately

With the introduction of the Erasmus Program in 1987, student mobility in Europe has been a tremendous success. Of all the European programs, Erasmus stands out for its positive effects despite the fact that one of its goals of having 10 percent of all European students studying in another country

NAFSA Senior Fellow Madeleine F. Green examines the data to determine whether or not U.S. institutions lead in internationalization efforts.