A Big World Out There

February 24, 2016
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The senior administrators tasked with promoting and coordinating international activities on their university campuses are gathered here for the annual Association of International Education Administrators conference. On the agenda are sessions on a wide range of activities bundled up in the term "internationalization," including student mobility, global learning, international partnerships, joint and dual degree programs, and cross-national research.

Internationalization is growing in importance at all levels, said Hans de Wit, director of Boston College’s Center for International Higher Education (and a blogger for Inside Higher Ed). Universities are participating in a broader range of international activities than in the past, and they’re being increasingly strategic about it.

Read more at Inside Higher Ed: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2016/02/24/researchers-survey-landscape-internationalization-higher-education