International Educational Partnerships in a Post-Colonial Era By Dr. Carolyn G. Bishop

1. CCCU – 35thANNUAL PRESIDENT’S CONFERENCE • International Educational Partnerships in a Post-Colonial Era • By Dr. Carolyn G. Bishop • President, CGE • Atlanta, GA • www.cgedu.org

2. Recent International Trends • The best students are no longer limited by geography and their countries’ development. • Curriculum content today is just a precursor to what must be continually updated. • Goals and structures for international programs are changing within the life of each university or college.

3. PILLARS OF A GLOBAL UNIVERSITY Incoming and Outgoing • Active strategies to recruit, retain, and integrate the highest quality international students. • 2. Enhanced international partnerships and • appealing study abroad opportunities.

4. CURRENT STUDY ABROAD ISSUES • Internationalization affects budgets • Focus is to prepare global students • Increased faculty interest and efforts • Options for joint and dual degrees • English is growing as a classroom language

5. GLOBAL CONNECTIONS FOR STUDY ABROAD SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA QUITO, ECUADOR BANGKOK, THAILAND AMMAN, JORDAN

6. GCSA - Key Success Factors • For Participating Universities: • Students are priority & stay enrolled at • home campus • Satisfies internationalization objectives • Supports faculty interaction and • participation • Shared management responsibilities • Stretches student funding resources • Sets up multiplication factors via • cooperative model

7. GCSA - Key Success Factors • For Participating Students: • Easy enrollment via home campus • Expands opportunities for innovative • study abroad • Ensures safe, well planned, & • affordable global study • Enables approved scholarship and • funding sources • Extends study experiences with • cultural opportunities • Extra benefits for internships and • service learning

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10. ANDERSON UNIVERSTY

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