Teaching, Learning, and Scholarship

NAFSA International Education Professional Competencies 2.0

Proficiency in all competencies requires strong familiarity with current trends and issues in international education and an organization’s missions, vision, and values. The NAFSA International Education Professional Competencies TM 2.0 are written to span and include each of the five NAFSA

The Promise of Higher Education in the Contested Post-COVID Era

Download the January 2022 Issue By Ellen Hazelkorn, PhD The effect of the coronavirus pandemic was immediate, unprecedented, and dramatic, changing almost every aspect of our lives overnight. In fact, one of the most amazing aspects was the way in which people around the world responded so quickly

Toward Greater Reflexivity in Engagement and Research with International Students

Download the November 2021 Issue By Tang T. Heng, EdD How international educators engage and conduct research with international students is often driven by theories, personal or established. They may have had positive experiences as international students themselves, driving them to assume that all

Pursuing Internationalization in Times of Persistent Crisis

Download the September 2021 Issue By Hala Dimechkie, MA Crisis management is a key component of successful international higher education management. Yet, the resources on how to pursue internationalization in regions that experience persistent national, economic, and social crises are scant

Designing Curriculum for Global Learning

Practically focused, this AGL session presents cases where global learning elements were successfully integrated into the curriculum design process. The presenters, who needed to upgrade their courses with challenging global learning elements, will discuss the processes and outcomes of designing

Relating Research to Global Learning

Early career researchers contribute solutions to global challenges (i.e. – rising ocean levels, antibiotic resistance, famine, refugee crises, and more). It is critical for students who will become these researchers to hone their research and application skills with the context that global learning

Global Learning for 21st Century Workforce Development

This AGL session provides examples of the new ways international educators and employers are identifying and developing students’ global competencies; those that 21 st century graduates are expected to have as they transition into career paths in an evolving, global marketplace. Presenters focus on

Global Learning for Career Education

This AGL session complements our previous session, Global Learning for 21st Century Workforce Development and explores examples of global learning integration into nontraditional career post-secondary and higher education environments.

Global Learning Beyond the Classroom

AGL Series III has explored global learning in curriculum design, research programs, and multiple aspects of workforce development and now takes it to the co-curricular level. This AGL session looks at examples of how to stimulate global learning in higher education spaces outside of the classroom

Assessment of Global Learning Toward Accreditation

This AGL session explores assessment of global learning for accreditation standards, even as those standards are still sometimes being defined. Institutional administrators and faculty of discipline specific programs are challenged to know where and how their campus or department's global learning