Leadership

Rising Star Young Leader Award

The Rising Star Young Leader Award is given annually in recognition of a professional who has impacted the field of international education during the first five years of the recipient's area of work.

Winter Leadership Meeting

The Best in the World? Not in Internationalization

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

How to Develop a Volunteer Program: Three Model Practices

In this NAFSA Campus and Community Programming (CCP) Resource, you will find three institutions who offer their models for successful volunteer management and share their best practices and sample materials to help you put together a volunteer program from start to finish.

Annual Conference Committee (ACC) Member, TLS KC

The Teaching, Learning, and Scholarship Knowledge Community (TLS KC) focuses on curriculum internationalization, research that informs practice, and intercultural communication, and serves faculty, administrators, graduate students/post-docs, researchers, intercultural trainers, cross-cultural

Tripping Over or Reconciling the Words of Internationalization

Has the discussion of internationalization become a scattershot of terms without an underlying coherency? Some conversations suggest that the terms are set in opposition, ("internationalization versus globalization"), or that one term is dying while another is rising ("globalization replacing

Member-at-large, Consular Affairs Liaison (CAL) Subcommittee Representative

The CAL Subcommittee Representative serves as a member-at-large on the EA RP and is appointed by the vice president for public policy and practice. The CAL Subcommittee of the EA RP Committee is charged with developing relationships with visa officers at international consulates in the United States

Become an Academy Chair

The Chair takes the lead role in ensuring that the Academy for International Education continues to meet the training needs of newcomers, those in transition, and those who have taken on new or expanded responsibilities.

Member Engagement Committee

The Member Engagement Committee represents NAFSA members and serves as a conduit between the leadership of the association and those served by it. Per the NAFSA Standing Rules, Member Engagement Committee (MEC) members: Welcome and engage new members with quarterly outreach and at engagement events

The U.S. Community College and the Law of the Retarding Lead

The law of the retarding lead is used by political scientists, economists, and anthropologists to describe the phenomenon by which the best-adapted and most successful societies have the greatest difficulty in changing and retaining their lead in a period of transition. Conversely, societies