“Faculty Integration in Education Abroad”

1. “Faculty Integration in Education Abroad” NAFSA: Region 1 Boise, Idaho October 2006

2. Faculty Development and Reciprocity Neal Sobania, Executive Director Wang Center for International Programs Pacific Lutheran University

3. The PLU Context • PLU mission: educating for lives of thoughtful inquiry, leadership, service, and care.

4. The PLU Context • PLU mission: educating for lives of thoughtful inquiry, leadership, service, and care. • “PLU 2010” commitments: to global education, purposeful learning, student-faculty research

5. The PLU Context • PLU mission: educating for lives of thoughtful inquiry, leadership, service, and care. • “PLU 2010” commitments: to global education, purposeful learning, student-faculty research • Global Education Plan: four central values to which PLU global education aspires—justice, health, sustainability, and peace.

6. Examples of PLU Ownership: • Departments consider international experience when hiring new faculty • New standing committee for global education • Faculty course releases for gateway program directors • Leave for administrators to serve as J-term assistant leaders • Global Scholars Distinction program in process

7. The PLU by the Numbers • 5 PLU “Gateway” programs: China, Mexico, Namibia, Norway, and Trinidad and Tobago

8. The PLU by the Numbers • 5 PLU “Gateway” programs: China, Mexico, Namibia, Norway, and Trinidad and Tobago • Consortia memberships add many more

9. The PLU by the Numbers • 5 PLU “Gateway” programs: China, Mexico, Namibia, Norway, and Trinidad and Tobago • Consortia memberships add many more • Semester, year, J-term & summer programs

10. The PLU by the Numbers • 5 PLU “Gateway” programs: China, Mexico, Namibia, Norway, and Trinidad and Tobago • Consortia memberships add many more • Semester, year, J-term & summer programs • “7 Continents” (Jan ’06) 400+ on 25 programs

11. The PLU by the Numbers • 5 PLU “Gateway” programs: China, Mexico, Namibia, Norway, and Trinidad and Tobago • Consortia memberships add many more • Semester, year, J-term & summer programs • “7 Continents” (Jan ’06) 400+ on 25 programs • Nearly 40% of graduation classes study away

12. The PLU by the Numbers • 5 PLU “Gateway” programs: China, Mexico, Namibia, Norway, and Trinidad and Tobago • Consortia memberships add many more • Semester, year, J-term & summer programs • “7 Continents” (Jan ’06P) 400+ on 25 programs • Nearly 40% of graduation classes study away • PLU 2010 goal = 50% of graduates will have a study away experience as part of degree program

13. 1. Consortia Member Opportunities • CIEE: International Faculty Development Seminars • 26 offerings in 2007 spanning the globe • Broad range of themes • http://ciee.org/IFDS.aspx

14. 1. Consortia Member Opportunities • IES: diverse faculty development programs, including • Faculty seminars • IES faculty-in-residence program • http://www.IESabraod.org

15. The Challenge: • You?

16. The Challenge: • You? • Your staff?

17. The Challenge: • You? • Your staff? • Faculty?

18. Staff? • Expertise: familiarization with programs your university uses

19. Staff? • Expertise: familiarization with programs your university uses • Experience: professionalization of international education staff

20. Staff? • Expertise: familiarization with programs your university uses • Experience: professionalization of international education staff • Drawback: with professionalization, people make more frequent job moves

21. Faculty? Eligibility issues: • Know your faculty? Know your faculty!

22. Faculty? Eligibility issues: • Know your faculty? Know your faculty! • Only tenured faculty—you are making a long-term investment

23. Faculty? Eligibility issues: • Know your faculty? Know your faculty! • Only tenured faculty—you are making a long-term investment • Identify and include faculty leaders

24. Faculty? Eligibility issues: • Know your faculty? Know your faculty! • Only tenured faculty—you are making a long-term investment • Identify and include faculty leaders • Find allies in younger faculty to send

25. Faculty? Eligibility issues: • Know your faculty? Know your faculty! • Only tenured faculty—you are making a long-term investment • Identify and include faculty leaders • Find allies in younger faculty to send • Purposefully select a “roadblock"

26. Faculty? Eligibility issues: • Know your faculty? Know your faculty! • Only tenured faculty—you are making a long-term investment • Identify and include faculty leaders • Find allies in younger faculty to send • Purposefully select a “roadblock" • New president or provost? Overseas ASAP!

27. Faculty? Benefits: • As transformative for faculty as students;

28. Faculty? Benefits: • As transformative for faculty as students; • Provides serious sense of study away program/academics;

29. Faculty? Benefits: • As transformative for faculty as students; • Provides serious sense of study away program/academics; • Gives sense of another educational system

30. Faculty? Benefits: • As transformative for faculty as students; • Provides serious sense of study away program/academics; • Gives sense of another educational system • International colleagues are made real

31. Faculty? Benefits: • As transformative for faculty as students; • Provides serious sense of study away program/academics; • Gives sense of another educational system • International colleagues are made real • Overseas development seminars often result in new international content to courses Reciprocity!

32. Outcome: Reciprocity! Reciprocity (generalized): not necessarily immediate return, but over time, a gift is returned of equal or similar value. Stated crassly: People will owe you!

33. An example: Investing in the Natural Sciences Combination of opportunities over 6 years: • Biologist • Physicist • Mathematician • Computer scientist • Engineer

34. Today? • All are now department chairs

35. Today? • All are now department chairs • In hiring new faculty, international experience is a consideration

36. Today? • All are now department chairs • In hiring new faculty, international experience is a consideration • As faculty advisors work with FYS to make study abroad possible

37. Today? • All are now department chairs • In hiring new faculty, international experience is a consideration • As faculty advisors work with FYS to make study abroad possible • 20% plus all study abroad students are majors from the natural sciences

38. 2. J-term assistant leaders: faculty • Develop new, potential program directors

39. 2. J-term assistant leaders: faculty • Develop new, potential program directors • Create potential for new programs at new sites, or

40. 2. J-term assistant leaders: faculty • Develop new, potential program directors • Create potential for new programs at new sites, or • Possibilities for alternating courses in same department

41. 2. J-term assistant leaders: faculty • Develop new, potential program directors • Create potential for new programs at new sites, or • Possibilities for alternating courses in same department Reciprocity (They owe you!)

42. 2. J-term assistant leaders: staff • Administrative staff are frontline contacts with students

43. 2. J-term assistant leaders: staff • Administrative staff are frontline contacts with students • Often meet students before faculty/advisors

44. 2. J-term assistant leaders: staff • Administrative staff are frontline contacts with students • Often meet students before faculty/advisors • Must include staff if serious about internationalizing the campus

45. 2. J-term assistant leaders: staff • Administrative staff are frontline contacts with students • Often meet students before faculty/advisors • Must include staff if serious about internationalizing the campus • Some faculty need the “steadiness” of such staff people

46. 2. J-term assistant leaders: staff • Administrative staff are frontline contacts with students • Often meet students before faculty/advisors • Must include staff if serious about internationalizing the campus • Some faculty need the “steadiness” of such staff people • (not counted as vacation time) Reciprocity: You’ve made powerful friends!

47. 3. Own study away programs • Site visits • Help faculty develop research connections • Help faculty identify research collaborators • Meet possible sabbatical replacements • Team teach with international colleagues

48. 3. Own study away programs • Site visits • Help faculty develop research connections • Help faculty identify research collaborators • Meet possible sabbatical replacements • Team teach with international colleagues Reciprocity (They owe you!) E.g. use as a cadre of in-department advisors

49. 4. Wang Center Grants Faculty grants: support faculty development in global education: • research • Add an international component to an existing course • Design a new J-term or summer course • Add a service learning/internship option

50. 4. Wang Center Grants Faculty grants: support faculty development in global education: • research • Add an international component to an existing course • Design a new J-term or summer course • Add a service learning/internship option Reciprocity (They owe you!)