Breadth of impact. Strategic international partnerships will be broadly impactful on two fronts. First, they will cross discipline, division, and department boundaries to involve faculty and students at all levels, and from throughout the institution. Ideally, they will foster interdisciplinary in learning. Second, they will involve activities directly related to all of the institution’s core missions.
Depth of impact. Strategic international partnerships will provide opportunities to move from simple to complex interactions between institutions. Educational activities will run the gamut from simple reciprocal study abroad arrangements and short-term study abroad programming to jointly taught courses, co-development of new curricula, and joint or dual degree programs.
Strong faculty support. While some central coordination of activities in a strategic international partnership is necessary and desirable, there must be significant and ongoing interest among faculty across the campus if any meaningful collaboration is to develop. We will identify key individual faculty to spearhead the initial efforts and champion the partnership among their colleagues.
Demonstrable mutual benefit. Strategic international partnerships will offer ongoing mutual benefits to both institutions. They will add value to both institutions involved by increasing their capacity to provide unique educational opportunities for our students.
Sustainability. Successful strategic international partnerships will evolve over time. Initial investments will come in the form of seed funding to facilitate initial interactions between faculty and international education administrators at the partner institutions. This central financial support will scale down as the institutional relationships mature.
Last Updated June 10, 2022
