Teaching, Learning, and Scholarship

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.

What are Effective Ways for Campuses to Use Technology in Order to Internationalize Their Offerings?

While the term "technology" can refer to many different things, the studies in this area offer innovative approaches of using technology to support campus-wide internationalization.

Global Studies Literature Review - No. 5, May 2014

Reviews of books with the theme “The Politics of Language.”

What Impacts International Students' Ability to Adjust to a Foreign Campus?

NAFSA provides a list of resources to address issues related to how adjustment directly affects the success of international students on your campus.

Babies, Bricks and Bytes: Global Development and its Impact on Higher Education Internationalization

Higher education is big and will only get bigger, but current developments imply that the global world of university teaching and learning face complex dilemmas in the near future.

Does Study Abroad Accelerate Personal Growth?

International educators have long sought research studies to support their direct observations: Students, when they return from study abroad, appear more mature than when they left. Is this due to the fact that the students are older, or is there something about the experience abroad that has

Is a Bologna Process Right for Latin America?

One of the most influential educational trends of the two last decades involves initiatives to construct common spaces of tertiary education. These projects—such as the Bologna Process and its core objective, the European Higher Education Area (EHEA)—focus mainly on tertiary education, the

Finally, Some Movement in Counting Education Abroad

Brett Berquist from Michigan State University and Martha Johnson from the University of Minnesota authored a report for NAFSA on CIC’s recent efforts to count international students.

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

Global Learning Rubric

Developed from the 2013 NAFSA Annual Conference session, Defining Global Learning and Aligning Curricular Pathways presented by Kevin Hovland, AACU, the Global Learning Rubric offers a common vocabulary for defining global learning and for identifying the kinds of skills and knowledge associated