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PROFILES OF SUCCESS AT COLLEGES and UNIVERSITIES ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

NAFSA gratefully acknowledges the considerable work of five volunteers who constituted the selection jury responsible for choosing the institutions profiled in the Internationalizing the Campus Report 2008:

BRIAN WHALEN (chair), associate dean of the college and executive director of Global Education, Dickinson College DAVID LARSEN, vice president and director for the Center for Education Abroad, Arcadia University RON ROBERSON, vice president of Academic Affairs, Howard Community College SUSAN BUCK SUTTON, associate vice president of International Affairs, University of Indiana CHUNSHENG ZHANG, vice provost for International Affairs and Outreach, University of Oregon

Their careful review of the nominations and thoughtful deliberations were truly invaluable.

ii This report was researched and written by Christopher Connell, formerly the national education reporter for The Associated Press (AP), and later assistant chief of the AP Washington Bureau. Mr. Connell is a freelance writer, editor, and consultant who works with foundations, nonprofit organizations, and government agencies. He also contributed many of the fine photographs Naccompanying the profile articles on the Senator Paul Simon Award winners. Many thanks go to the representatives of the colleges and universities who participated in the project, including all who submitted nominations. We especially thank the institutions featured in this report for their assistance in helping us research and report their stories.

We once again express our gratitude to the family of Paul Simon for lend- ing the late senator’s name to the Senator Paul Simon Award for Campus Internationalization, bestowed upon the five institutions to receive campus-wide profiles in the 2008 report.

Internationalizing the Campus reports from previous years and information about the competition can be viewed online at www.nafsa.org/itc.

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INTERNATIONALIZING THE CAMPLUS 2008 iii PROFILES OF SUCCESS AT COLLEGES + UNIVERSITIES Introduction

This year marks the sixth anniversary of Internationalizing the Campus: Profiles of Success at Colleges and Universities, a report on international education in the United States developed by NAFSA: Association of International Educators. Profiling institutions selected to receive the Senator Paul Simon Award for Campus Internationalization, the report cites exemplary practices, model approaches, and major trends, describing the current state of international education on these award-winning U.S. campuses.

This annual publication serves to highlight the power of international education to advance learning and scholarship, build understanding and respect among different peoples, and enhance constructive leadership in the global community.

This year NAFSA received many outstanding nominations for the Senator Paul Simon Award for Campus Internationalization from a diverse group of distinguished institutions throughout the United States.

In seeking out institutions where international education has been broadly infused across all facets of the institution, the 2008 Selection Jury (listed on p. ii) was tasked with looking for iv some or all of the following characteristics:

uu The campus has been widely internationalized across schools, divisions, departments, and disciplines. Tuu There is evidence of genuine administrative or even board-level support for internationalization. uu The campus-wide internationalization has had demonstrable results for students.

uu The institution’s mission or planning documents contain an explicit or implicit statement regarding international education.

uu The institution’s commitment to internationalization is reflected in the curriculum.

uu The campus-wide internationalization has had demonstrable results within the faculty.

uu There is an international dimension in off-campus programs and outreach.

uu There is internationalization in research and/or faculty exchange.

uu The institution supports education abroad as well as its international faculty, scholars, and students.

Each of the five institutions chosen by the jury to receive the Senator Paul Simon Award for Campus Internationalization is profiled in this report. Among the 2008 winners are schools of widely varying sizes and resources: Goucher College in Baltimore, Maryland; Nebraska Wesleyan University in Lincoln, Nebraska; Pittsburg State University in Pittsburg, Kansas; University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; and Valparaiso University in Valparaiso, Indiana. U N IVERSITIES

Three other institutions are spotlighted in this report for their outstanding accomplishments in + specific areas of internationalization. Colorado State University is recognized for its comprehen- sive strategic plan for internationalization, Miami Dade College is noted for its globally themed arts and literature programs, and Webster University is acknowledged for its extensive and fully integrated network of overseas campuses.

The five Simon Award-winning institutions were recognized in May 2008 in Washington, DC at a special ceremony held during NAFSA’s 2008 Annual Conference. It was there that the five institutions selected for their overall excellence in internationalization were presented with NAFSA’s Senator Paul Simon Award for Campus Internationalization. The late senator served Illinois and the nation as a strong voice for civil rights, peace initiatives, and international education.

He was a strong advocate throughout his career for international education, using his positions COLLEGES AT PROFILES OF SUCCESS on various committees in the Senate to advocate for exchange. His leadership in this area was especially evident in his robust support, along with Senator David Boren of Oklahoma, for the v creation of the National Security Education Program, which addresses critical national security deficiencies in language and cultural expertise.

We hope that international educators will share this report with their institution’s top leadership—including their trustees—in order to document and underscore the value of international education. Internationalizing the Campus is also of great value in communicating with wider communities and regions. Legislatures and government agencies may find it helpful in discuss- ing and understanding international education and exchange. Finally, we hope that it not only presents knowledge and resources to help improve the practice of international education, but also that it inspires new insights and activities in years to come.

Everett Egginton THE CAMPLUS 2008 N ALIZI G I N TER ATIO Dean, New Mexico State University President, NAFSA 2008

Marlene M. Johnson Executive Director and CEO NAFSA: Association of International Educators The suburban campus of Goucher College is noted as an outstanding example of mid-twentieth century architecture and college campus design and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2007. S tu d y a b roa d ma n d ate b ri n gs students anD challenges TO College

Aviva Bergman’s worn yellow satchel doubles as a diary of her adventurousoucher young life: Almost every inch is cov- ered with flag patches from theG 45 countries where she has studied, volunteered, traveled, and taught. That’s not counting Namibia, Botswana, and Korea, where the Goucher College senior spent a day or two—not long enough in her book to justify adding a patch to “my sacred bag ”. The sociology major speaks Spanish, Portuguese, French, and some Bambara (picked up during a semester in Mali) . Goucher, a sylvan, 290-acre campus outside Baltimore, Maryland, is a place where Aviva found kindred spirits, and more in the making . Starting with the class of 2010, no one will graduate from Goucher without at least one stamp in their passport .

1 Goucher is the first traditional liberal arts which the Anglo-Japanese College—now Aoyama college in the nation to require everyone to Gakuin University—was built in 1882, an early have an education abroad experience. President recognition “that education is necessarily a global Sanford J. Ungar calls it “shameful” that more pursuit,” as Ungar said in a 2002 speech on Americans don’t spend a portion of their college the Tokyo campus (http://www.goucher.edu/ years studying outside the United States and x4702.xml). says flatly, “It’s ridiculous to claim that students are educated if they have not had some Goucher went coed in 1986, a move that reversed international exposure.” Ungar feels he declining enrollments. It was already was hired in 2001 “at least in part trying to ramp up international to retrieve and enhance the col- activities in a 1995 strategic plan; a lege’s international character.” donor back then made a gift that Goucher began in 1885 as the funds study abroad scholarships Woman’s College of Baltimore for needy undergraduates. But City and was renamed a former President Judy Mohraz, quarter-century later for one of said, “Sandy’s just taken it miles its founders and second presi- farther. He’s made it a signature dent, the Reverend John Franklin for the college.” Ungar arrived on Goucher, a globe-trotting educator and campus two months before September churchman who opened schools, colleges, 11, an event that convinced many American missions, and hospitals across China, Japan, educators of the urgency of doing a better job of Korea, and India. He and his wife helped buy helping students understand the world and those the land in Tokyo near the Emperor’s palace on opposed to Western ideals and freedoms.

Ungar admits frankly that he was also looking 2 for something that would separate Goucher from G other liberal arts colleges. “It needed something distinctive, and what better thing to distinguish it than this focus on international education?” said Ungar. He also convinced his board that it was the type of “big idea” that would attract both students and donors more than just replacing the campus library. Indeed, the mandate has been prominently featured in a major capital campaign that has allowed Goucher to build a $32 million facility called the Athenaeum that will house a café, fitness center, art gallery and performance spaces, as well as a superior library.

Building Support for the Study Abroad Mandate The mandate—which requires students to spend at least three weeks in an approved study abroad program or internship in another country—was articulated in a sweeping 2002 strategic plan, Transcending Boundaries of the Map & the Mind. But first Ungar had to convince the faculty to actually make study abroad a requirement, and that took three full years. Some faculty were President Sanford J. Ungar worried that the small college was rushing into Future Site: TheAthenaeum offerings. “I’mimpressed atthenumberthat for faculty of creativity and enthusiasm the by struck been he’s said culture, and history German is field menting thiseffectively.” ButBeachy, whose There was afairbitofconcernaboutimple requirement) to come quite as soon as it did it as soon as quite come to requirement) said, “Idon’tknow thatanybody expected (the Robert Beachy, anassociateprofessor ofhistory, the costofstudyingabroad. offset partially to voucher $1,200 a student every with theclassof2010, thecollegebegangiving education requirements in2005. Andstarting general Goucher’s of overhaul larger a in ment agreeing toincludetheeducation abroad require- before years three for deliberated faculty The the freshmen whoentered infall2006. for effect took mandate the before even start, the from students prospective and public the of fancy the captured idea the Still, courses. intensive both thelogisticsandcurriculumrightforsuch get to planning and time of amount significant a takes it summer, and the or January in overseas Many optforthree-week, faculty-ledstudytrips faculty. the on largely fall would abroad study to ies, buttheburden ofencouraging more students fourth person foritsOfficeofInternationalStud- the increased studyabroad load.Goucherhired a for support sufficient without and fast too this coming up with new education abroad abroad education new with up coming

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PROFILES OF SUCCESS AT COLLEGES + UNIVERSITIES 3 GOUCHER COLLEGE Goucher enrolled nearly 1500 undergraduates Accra for an immersion in the arts and culture of and more than 800 part-time graduate students in Ghana and West Africa. 2007. Goucher has rented nearby apartments to handle the overflow from campus housing. Still, a sizable minority of Goucher students study abroad for a full semester, an option that has been Even before the mandate, more than half of growing in popularity. And with support from a Goucher seniors had studied abroad by the time U.S. Department of Education grant, Goucher has they graduated, and that number had risen to 77 developed several courses that are team taught percent for the class of 2006 according to Open by language and content experts for seven weeks Doors figures. Some 132 members of the class of in the fall, then three weeks overseas, and seven 2010 actually used their $1,200 vouchers as fresh- more weeks back on campus. They have ranged men or sophomores. Most were expecting—and from peace studies in Spain, to theater in Paris, expected—to do so as juniors or seniors. Ungar and to multicultural education in Costa Rica. said it will be several years before the results of this experiment are known. “Those last seven weeks were paradise for me,” said Isabel Moreno-Lopez, assistant professor of Spanish, who taught the 8-credit multicultural Faculty Play a Critical Role education class with Assistant Professor of Educa- The most popular and common option for stu- tion Tami Smith. Moreno encountered resistance dents to fulfill the requirement is to head off with when she tried to teach entirely in Spanish before a Goucher professor on one of the three-week the trip to Costa Rica, but afterward “their attitude intensive courses abroad that are offered during changed completely. It was a 100 percent shift. The winter break and after the spring term ends. students loved their experience there and loved Some of these study abroad classes tied into the language,” she said. The students slept in tree longer coursework on campus before and/or after houses at an environmental hostel in the middle of 4 the overseas trip. In January and May, faculty a rain forest and learned from Bribri Indians about lead students to Rio de Janeiro to learn the his- their lives and culture. Back in Maryland, the stu- tory of dance in Brazil; to Shanghai and Beijing to dents could not get enough Spanish. “They wanted absorb Chinese history and philosophy; to Prague more and more and more. They were sad when it to explore the Czech capital’s twentieth-century ended and asked if they could still meet with me journey from fascism to communism to capital- over coffee and discuss books. I still have some of ism; to Honduras where students dive in coral these students coming,” said Moreno-Lopez. “The reefs while learning tropical marine biology; to students you take abroad are students for life.”

“They wanted more and more and more . . . The students you take abroad are students for life.”

LEFT TO RIGHT: Isabel Moreno-Lopez, assistant professor of Spanish, taught the multicultural education class. Marc Roy, provost and chief academic officer, and member of the Diversity Standing Committee. I thinktimewill telluswhat’s necessary todo. so farthey’ve beenable tomeetthechallenge. But thestaffhere isincredibly productive and students. advising of terms in burden the of lot a carrying is faculty “The 2007. in Goucher to structure,” saidProvost Marc Roy, whocame by theAdmissions Office).“Itisasmallinfra- handled are students international Goucher’s for (visas office the out round workers student abroad advisers, an administrative staffer, and Office ofInternationalStudies. Two education four-person a now is what for member staff additional one just hiring by mandate abroad education the implemented has far so Goucher tory anditscurrent socialandeconomicreforms. Saigon) toHanoi,learningaboutVietnam’s his- (formerly City Minh Chi Ho from journeyed They field. war, farmer’s a the now during served he Relations, whoshowed themthefirebase where chair ofPolitical ScienceandInternational Brown, Nicholas by led January last Vietnam to trip three-week a on voucher $1,200 his in cashed Georgia, Atlanta, DuBiner,from there.” right you with it over go they and office their into walk can you exam an After time. the all them with talk DuBiner. “Imean, Ilunchwithmy professors and Royce sophomore said school,” arts liberal small, a for looking were here come that people “Most abroad. and home at professors, from attention of lot a to accustomed are students Goucher sophomore MattCohen-Price. Eric Singer, associate dean of International Studies, with programs,” saidSinger, whohasnow relinquished internationalize ourcurriculumandacademic cally andwork withfaculty anddepartmentto “My maincharge hasbeen tothinkstrategi- years asassociatedeanofInternationalStudies. Political scienceprofessor EricSingerspenteight burden forfaculty.” a of less that make to ways find to We need that. abroad andsomeofthelogistical preparation for courses intensive the designing of terms in both the of lot a carrying are faculty yes, But

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PROFILES OF SUCCESS AT COLLEGES + UNIVERSITIES 5 GOUCHER COLLEGE LEFT TO RIGHT: Steven DeCaroli, associate professor of philosophy, led classes to China and Greece. LaJerne Cornish, assistant professor of education, led students on trips to teach in South African schools. Antje Rauwerda, assistant professor of English raised in Singapore, was co-leader on the first Goucher trip to China.

those administrative duties and will resume teach- Africa. She has also raised thousands of dollars ing full-time after a sabbatical. Singer regularly to donate books to township schools. “This has proselytized fellow faculty to teach courses over- really pushed me in unexpected ways,” said seas and led several study abroad trips himself to Cornish. South Africa. He put the arm on LaJerne Cornish, an assistant professor of education, one summer when Singer needed students to teach math in a Exploring Global Issues South African township school. Service, whether in inner city Baltimore, hurricane-ravaged New Orleans, or the slums of Cornish found two willing education majors and Grahamstown, is part of the culture at Goucher. agreed to take an exploratory trip with Singer to Sophomore Maura Roth-Gormley, 20, of Har- South Africa. Cornish, a Goucher alumna and risburg, Pennsylvania, first learned about Goucher former assistant principal of a Baltimore middle in the book, Colleges That Change Lives, by Loren 6 school, had never been out of the country. “I Pope. “I was interested because of Goucher’s grew up in Baltimore City and thought I had international studies program and all the emphasis some conception of poverty, but nothing prepared on service learning,” said the history major and me for what I saw in South Africa,” she said. ballet dancer who also teaches yoga. For the past four summers, she has led groups of up to a dozen education majors to teach in an Roth-Gormley is also in Goucher’s International overcrowded school in rural Grahamstown, South Scholars Program (ISP), which places students in special seminars exploring global issues during their first three semesters and requires them to take one language class beyond the intermediate level and to study abroad for at least a semester. The ISP students get $3,000 vouchers. Roth- Gormley already has been to South Africa on a three-week course, and plans to return for a full semester on an exchange with Rhodes University in Grahamstown. “When I talk to people at other colleges, I’m always kind of shocked” how few plan to study abroad, she said. “When I say I’ve already studied abroad and plan to do so again, they say, ‘Well, that’s interesting. I’d love to do that—but I probably won’t.’” Still, the ISP, which started in 2005, isn’t everyone’s cup of tea, with prescribed courses and a long research paper. Forty students in the class of 2010 signed up for Sophomores (left to right) Royce DuBiner, Matt Cohen-Price, Debra Linik, and ISP as freshmen; half had left the program before Maura Roth-Gormley are the first class affected by the study abroad mandate. the third semester’s end. Sorbonne forfall2008. the at studying is Narayanan Anndal Sophomore and oncethestudentsstart“cross-pollinating” it willchangethefeelofcampuscommunity,” of implementingthisthatare awkward. ButIthink change, there are littlebumps;there are littleparts the educationabroad mandate, “As withany big DeCaroli onthatfirst Chinatrip. Rauwerda saidof father was apetroleum geologist,partnered with who was raised inSingapore where herDutch Antje Rauwerda, anassistantprofessor ofEnglish not alotofbureaucracy togothrough.” get somethingdoneonafirst-name basis. There’s and charge in person the to talk and phone the up Goucher, “You at pick that can said Greece, and China to classes led has who philosophy of professor associate an DeCaroli, Steven crab-packing housesontheChesapeake Bay. relies onmigrant laborfrom Mexico tostaffits and China, and Vietnam, Malaysia, India, pines, canning plantsinIndonesia,Thailand,thePhilip- seafood operates City, now Ocean in boardwalk the on started Company,which Seafood Phillips global. gone has industry crab Maryland the how explored class her which in seminar a extolled major, relations international and science cal Linik ofWoodstown, New Jersey. Linik,apoliti- why IcametoGoucher,” saidsophomore Debra But others love it.Thestudyabroad mandate“is honors for her freshman ISP paper comparing the the comparing paper ISP freshman her for honors ever had,”saidNarayanan, whorecently received Goucher’s that biggest the was class freshman Narayanan. Therequirement “explains why the study requirement was really theclincher,” said Colleges ThatChangeLives. “Theinternational from Goucher about learned too, Paris.She, in Sorbonne the at semester fall junior her spending and historymajorfrom Delray Beach,Florida,is Sophomore AnndalNarayanan, 19,aFrench vegetables from thecafeteriadaily. com a leader of an agricultural co-op that tends large immigrant cultures in the East End. Hendricks is class in Honduras and journeyed to London to study said Hendricks, who took a tropical marine biology campus didn’t want tostudyabroad oreven doanoff- remember inmy freshman year alotofpeople is attracting “a different Bar Harbor, Maine, said the study abroad mandate Lindsey Hendricks, 20, a junior biology major going tobereally interesting.” their experiences inChina orMaliIreland, “it’s composting bins. Junior Lindsey Hendricks shows one of the agricultural co-op’s campus posting bins around campus, harvesting leftover internship. 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PROFILES OF SUCCESS AT COLLEGES + UNIVERSITIES 7 GOUCHER COLLEGE LEFT TO RIGHT: Laura Burns, assistant professor of art, led students on trips to study life on the U.S.-Mexico border. Marianne Githens, political science professor with Ph.D. from London School of Economics, is one of the longest serving faculty members. Kaushik Bagchi, associate professor of history from India, led students on trips to Ghana for study in the arts.

1968 student takeover at Columbia University in “So far it seems to be working quite well,” Burns New York to the riots at the Sorbonne. added. “The students I’ve been talking with are good planners. It’s making them plan a little bit more into the future, having to sort of sit down Greater Student Engagement and say, ‘O.K., this class is available this semester; J. Michael Curry, former vice president and aca- if I’m gone this semester, then I need to do X, Y, demic dean, believes the study abroad mandate and Z.’ It means that people are tending to write is bringing in students who are more “engaged, out a four-year plan as opposed to a semester-by- thoughtful, open to new experiences, (and) semester plan.” aware of the world.” And while some choose Goucher because of the safe, suburban campus, Marianne Githens, professor of political science the mandate also serves notice that Goucher and one of the longest serving faculty members— “will push them out of the comfort of the nest,” 8 she arrived in 1965 fresh from finishing her Ph.D. he said. at the London School of Economics—believes Goucher “is going through a real renaissance.” The responsibility for ensuring that a student goes Students in her “Women in Politics” class were abroad really rests with the students themselves, more familiar with Ségolène Royal and her but the faculty “have a responsibility for getting campaign for president of France than an earlier the conversation started,” said Associate Dean generation would have been. “That’s one of the Janine Bowen. wonderful products of internationalizing here at Goucher,” said Githens. Laura Burns, an assistant professor of art who teaches photography, said this is “a big time of transition” for both faculty and students. “It is From Dance to Lacrosse— very new in terms of advising. It’s new in terms Integrating Study Abroad of figuring out who’s on campus and who’s not. Kaushik Bagchi, an associate professor of history, It’s new in terms of figuring out how difficult it and Amanda Thom Woodson, professor of dance, becomes for students to meet their requirements have teamed to lead students on five trips to here and yet go abroad,” said Burns, who has led Ghana and one to India. “When I came here 15 classes to study life on the border shared by El years ago, mine was one of the few international Paso, Texas, and Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. voices on campus. I was an international specimen

“I see a huge, huge change in international awareness and knowledge on the part of both students and faculty.” luster itenjoyed whenitwas awomen’s college. the lost never has program dance Goucher’s Singapore. and Germany, Malta, in family military a in up grew Scotland, Edinburgh, of native a Woodson, experience.” cultural a is It dancing. about purely not is to explain I anything.’ exchange program becausethey are not‘learning dance a on go to them for pay “will parents her that student a from hear will she Sometimes, dance. and music study to Brazil to students dance takes also Woodson castles builtby thePortuguese andDutchtraders. the history of the slave trade and visit the forts and everyday life and politics.” The students also learn music and dance are completely integrated into ‘That’s not for me.’ But in the villages we visit, Ghana trip,saidBagchi.“Somepeoplemay think, “We doalot ofdrumminganddancing”onthe faculty,” saidBagchi,whoisfrom Delhi. and knowledge onthepart ofbothstudentsand huge, hugechangeininternationalawareness on campus. Thatisnolonger thecase. Iseea

the parents that this this that parents the international international Amanda ThomWoodson, professorofdance,ledstudentstoAfricaandBrazilstudy music anddance.

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PROFILES OF SUCCESS AT COLLEGES + UNIVERSITIES 9 GOUCHER COLLEGE He also spent a summer working for the English Ungar amplified on those thoughts. “One of the language Argus newspapers in Johannesburg, challenges is to bring faculty along in all disciplines Durban, and Cape Town, seeing apartheid at its and help them see that the international component worst. Later he wrote books on Africa, the FBI, the of things is not a luxury but a growing necessity. new wave of immigrants, and other topics; hosted It’s understandable that some people would have National Public Radio’s All Things Considered; reservations and concerns, especially because to became dean of the communications school at them in some cases they feel, ‘If I’m going to make American University; and was director of the Voice room for an international component…then what of America from 1999 to 2001. has to go? What is it going to replace?’” he said. “The answer in my view is that curriculum has His vision for international education permeates always changed and will always change.” all matters, large and small, at Goucher. When a Maryland community organization came by to To campuses thinking of following Goucher’s solicit an institutional membership fee costing example, Ungar offered this advice: “Make sure $7,200, Ungar instantly did the math in his head. that there are lots of new programs in the cooker, “That’s six stipends for students to go overseas,” lots of new ideas for study abroad programs, he said. “You have a high threshold to tell me both short- and long-term ones. I might urge that that that’s more important than putting the people do that a little bit sooner than we did.” money into sending six students overseas.” Institutions also need to collaborate more on the The study abroad mandate has earned Goucher courses and classes they take overseas. “No doubt waves of publicity. A recent feature in The everybody wants to do something unique and Chronicle of Higher Education took note of some have programs that reflect the character of each grumbling among the faculty, but gave Ungar individual institution. There’s nothing wrong with the last word. “I’m comfortable being out on this that,” said Ungar. “But I think everybody needs to 10 limb,” he said. learn a little bit more about group play.” u u u u u u u u u u u u Challenges andLessonsfromtheGoucherExperiment student help.TheAdmis advisers, andonesupportstaff aswell Studies reliesonadirector, twostudyabroad support structure.ItsOfficeofInternational activities withaveryleanadministrativeand out toexpanditsinternationaleducation hopes togrowthosenumbersagain. national studentsbeforeSeptember11and Ungar saidGoucherattractedmoreinter undergraduates and890graduatestudents. enrolled in2007-08onacampuswith1,472 side. Onlyeightinternationalstudentswere export business,butnotmuchontheimport In businessparlance,Goucherdoesabig here,” saidUngar. on theinternationalaspectofeverydiscipline process. “It’s alsoenhancingandfocusing is onlyonestepintheinternationalization faculty recognizethatsendingstudentsabroad more fundsforscholarships. and SouthAmerica.Goucherisworkingtoraise faculty leadstudentstoAsia,Africa,Europe, Goucher’s intensivecoursesabroad,inwhich covers onlyone-halftothirdofthecosts tionalize Goucher. was crucialtothissignificanteffortinterna the classthatenteredin2006.Facultybuy education requirements.Itwasinstitutedfor and finallytoincorporateitintorevisedgeneral three yearsforthefacultytodebatemove dent announcedthemandatein2002,ittook paying off. and enrollmentsrising,thebetappearstobe course requirements.Butwithapplications en students wasrisky, withrepercussionsfor LEAN STAFFING. FEW INTERNATIONAL ONLY ONESTEP. COSTS. FACULTY BUYIN. RISKS. rollments, budget,facultyworkloads,and Even the $1,200 student voucher Eventhe$1,200studentvoucher Mandating studyabroadforall Administrators and Administratorsand Goucherhasset AfterGoucher’s presi sions Officehandles STUDENTS.

u u u u u u for thosekindsof experiencestotakeplace.” hopes “tocreatemoredeliberateopportunities presentations afterstudentsreturn,Goucher of oursuccess.”Withassignedpapersand on theirreturnwillbe“thecriticalcomponent prepare beforetheytravelandfollowthrough and co-curricularopportunitiesforstudentsto international studies,saidprovidingcurricular spring. EricSinger, outgoingassociatedeanof weeks backoncampusinthewinterand the three-weektripabroad,andsevenmore weeks: sevenweeksofclassesinthefall, campus, includingsomethatextendto17 around full-orhalfsemestercourseson already packagesmanyoverseasclasstrips would putupafuss.” design atriptogoAntarctica,nobody anything ispossible,sothatifIdecidedto Rauwerda, said,“You havethefeelingthat Steven DeCaroli.AnEnglishprofessor, Antje the pursestrings,”saidphilosophyprofessor who sayyesoncampus,andtheycontrol faculty has littlebureaucracyandencourages a leanadministrationmeansthatGoucher pays offinbetteradvising. at theseoverseascampuses,Singer said.That and educationalenvironmentis forstudents” understand betterwhattheacademic,cultural, that theywanttodevelop,butalsosocan faculty doresearchontheshort-termcourses velopment helped.“We usethattonotonlyhelp places. Asmallfundforfacultyinternationalde in SouthAfrica,Argentina,Australia,andother them onexploratorytripstopartneruniversities to considerteachingcoursesoverseasandsent Singer proselytizedregularlyamongthefaculty ACADEMIC integration. NO BUREAUCRACY. INTERNATIONALIZING FACULTY. students abroad. activities andmanyofthelogisticsleading take onresponsibilityforboththecurricular visas forinternationalstudents.Faculty creativity. “There’s alotofpeople Thecorollaryof Goucher

PROFILES OF SUCCESS AT COLLEGES + UNIVERSITIES 11 GOUCHER COLLEGE Altgeld Hall, former library added to National Register of Historic Places in 1970. U n i v e r s i t y o f at

a L a n d - G ra n t G ia n t Operates onllinois a Global Stage The Boxer Rebellion against foreign influence ended a rbana-Champaigncentury ago with Russian, Japanese, and Western forces occupying BeijingI and forcing China’s Imperial government to pay reparations. The United States was due a minor U share for its supporting role in quashing the rebellion. Edmund J . James, president of the University of Illinois, saw an opportunity to draw something positive for China out of the bitter potion of defeat . He led the way in convincing President Theodore Roosevelt to use the compensation for an altruistic purpose: bringing Chinese students to the United States to pursue higher education . Hundreds of those young scholars ultimately earned degrees on the Urbana-Champaign campus, and Britain also used its reparations for scholarships . The same funds were used to build a preparatory school in Beijing called Tsinghua College—forerunner to Tsinghua University, now one of the world’s greatest institutions of higher education with a campus modeled after Illinois’s famous Quad . Tsinghua weathered hard times during World War II and the Cultural Revolution, but when China reopened to the world, “we engaged quickly to rebuild that relationship,” said Jesse G . Delia, executive director of Illinois’s International Research Relations . Today, nearly 1,000 of the 5,685 international students on the Illinois campus hail from the People’s Republic of China .

13 International roots run deep at Illinois’s flagship 2012 as part of his dream of making the University campus, which began operations in 1867—five of Illinois “the world’s preeminent institution in years after the Morrill Act—as Illinois Industrial international education, research, and service.” University. Its first president, John Milton Gregory, described it as “West Point for the working world.” In some respects that ambition means going back By 1908 it became an early member of the As- to the future, for Illinois professors were deeply sociation of American Universities. Today it keeps engaged in international education projects span- an international profile that few institutions can ning the globe in the 1950s and 1960s when, with match, with eight federally funded Title VI National the help of the Marshall Plan and later with U.S. Resource Centers: African Studies; European Union Agency for International Development grants, they Studies; East Asian and Pacific Studies; South Asian helped design and build agricultural colleges and and Middle Eastern Studies; Latin American and institutes of technology across Asia, Africa, and Caribbean Studies; Russian, East European, and South America. Their credits include India’s first Eurasian Studies; Global Studies; and a CIBER (in- Institute of Technology in Kharagpur and the G.B. ternational business center) in the business school. Pant Institute of Agriculture and Technology in Only the University of Washington and the Uni- Uttar Pradesh, as well as the College of Agricultural versity of Wisconsin-Madison have more. It ranks Engineering, Jabalpur, in Madhya Pradesh. Illinois fourth among U.S. universities in international faculty helped Pakistan open its first agricultural student enrollment (the only ones with more—the school at the University of Peshawar (now the au- University of Southern California, Columbia tonomous Agricultural University, Peshawar), and University, and New York University—are private), were there at the creation of Egerton Agricultural and fifth in the number of students who study College (now Egerton University) in Kenya. abroad—more than 2,000 each year. Chancellor Richard Herman hopes to double that number by “We weren’t alone, but that was all led by this institution,” said Herman, a mathematician who 14 sits on the President’s Council of Advisors on Sci- I ence and Technology. “We have a rich international history and an enormous base on which to build.” On a 2007 visit to Brazil, Chancellor Herman was pleased to learn that a celebrated Illinois dean of agriculture, Eugene Davenport, played a role in establishing the Escola Superior de Agricultura or Luiz de Queiroz College of Agriculture (ESALQ) in Piracicaba in the 1890s.

The Work of Many Colleges The tapestry of international programs and activities at Illinois reflects the work of many faculty and colleges. Associate Provost for International Affairs William I. Brustein noted, “As with many U.S. universities, a centralized office for international programs and studies emerged relatively late. Consequently, much of the international activity was carried out by the colleges and schools within the university,” such as the College of Agricultural, Consumer, and Environmental Science (ACES) and the College of Engineering. Many University of Illinois colleges operate their own study/education abroad offices in addition to Chancellor Richard Herman the campus-wide office. challenges foracentral officeinadecentralized Education Administrators (AIEA),observed, “The past president oftheAssociationInternational institutional collaborations. Brustein,immediate and serviceshandlinginternationalvisitors and IPS director’s office, thestudyabroad office, of Illinois’s area studiescenters, aswell asthe the much-photographed Quad, housesmost International StudiesBuilding,ashortwalk from at theUniversity ofPittsburgh. Thethree-story (IPS) in2007 afterheadinginternationalstudies of theofficeInternationalPrograms andStudies caust andNaziGermany, assumedtheleadership Brustein, asociologistandauthorityontheHolo- Wolfgang Schlör, associate director for International William Brustein, associate provost for International Research Relations,hasmade14trips toSingapore. Jesse Delia, executive director of International Affairs, created the campus-wide International Affairs, createdthecampus-wideInternational Programs andStudies. Advisory Council. LEFT TORIGHT: sounding board fornew ideas. him oncollege-level initiatives andserves as a grams. Brusteinchairs thecouncil,whichadvises college withresponsibility forinternationalpro- composed ofthesenioradministrators from each a campus-wideInternationalAdvisory Council opportunities.” Oneofhis first steps was tocreate bring tothecampusnew international education ance withcampusandgovernmental policies, and nate redundancies inthesystem, ensure compli- internationalize thoselessengagedcolleges, elimi- establish bridgesorsynergies amongthecolleges, taking placewithinthecollegesandschools, environment are to reinforce the positive initiatives

PROFILES OF SUCCESS AT COLLEGES + UNIVERSITIES 15 University of illinois AT URB ANA-CHAMPAIGN Illinois’s international reputation was bolstered over the years by breakthroughs in computer science and the natural sciences, as well by advances in the social sciences, such as anthropolo- gist Oscar Lewis’s pioneering studies of poverty in Mexico. Still, the agriculture faculty were among the most peripatetic. Forty-seven agriculture faculty spent extended periods living in India during those college-building days from 1954 to 1973. Hundreds of international students came to Urbana-Champaign for advanced agricultural degrees, and Illinois faculty were still winning multi-million-dollar contracts in the 1980s to build or expand institutions in Pakistan, Kenya, and Zambia before U.S. AID funding ended. “At the end of the Cold War, we went through kind of a drought in our international programs,” recalled Robert A. Easter, dean of ACES since 2001. The college’s office of International Agriculture was disbanded in a 1996 reorganization, although faculty such as Easter still made heavy use of their passports. Easter has lectured and consulted on swine nutrition in 27 countries, from Costa Rica to China. For a while it seemed that the institutional commitment to international activi- 16 ties was lagging. Robert A. Easter, dean of the College of Agriculture, Consumer, and Environmental Sciences (ACES). That did not sit well with faculty there in the glory years of institution building. Finally a faculty committee put together a concept for what they called ACES Global Connect, a new faculty research and projects overseas. Since it office to coordinate and encourage agriculture started in 2002, “we’ve been gradually rebuilding our international engagement,” said Easter. Now, instead of leaving professors to their own devices when they head off to consult in Brazil or China, “we’re trying to be more systematic and strategic about forming alliances with other universities in different parts of the world.”

Global Connect, a small office with a modest budget (approximately $100,000 last year) provided largely by the college, is intent on helping a new generation of faculty pursue federal grants, partnerships, and other international opportunities. “We were fish out of water for a little period there. ACES Global Connect was our attempt to reinvigorate international programs in our college. We’re resource poor, but rich in passion,” said director Mary Ann Lila, a biology professor and vice

ACES Assistant Dean and Study Abroad Director Andrea Bohn president of the Global Institute for BioExploration between students Paul Kirbach and Lindsey Bruntjen. (GIBEX). and Kazakhstan. research has taken her to Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Mary Ann Lila, director of ACES Global Connect, whose own Mexicans to stop drinking sodas and have more more have and sodas drinking stop to Mexicans scientist inthegroup was working onhow toget social “The plants. certain of properties diabetic first group went toMexico to explore theanti- The projects. education and research short-term on collaborate fellows faculty the where year the of end the at trip international an is capstone The Washington. in agencies development and health Chicago andmake therounds ofinternational in corporations multinational of headquarters the visit to road the hit and seminars monthly in ideas exchange and shoulders rub They Lila. said realm,” international the in immersion year-long a “for disciplines different from fellows for GlobalEngagementthatselectseightfaculty Academy an 2006 in launched Connect Global international engagementoncampus…” “Even onashoestringbudget…Global Connect hasbecomearolemodelfor soybeans in central Illinois. and corn grow parents whose Bruntjen, said no,” say can’t just you and opportunities many open onceIgottotheuniversity. There are so be would doors many how realize didn’t I Germany. “Ihadn’texpected todoallthis. and France, Kingdom, United Netherlands, the class triptoseefarmsandfactoriesinBelgium, Immersion Program whowent onafaculty-led among 25studentsintheInternationalBusiness her second.ThispastMay, theACES majorwas winter break andinParana StateinBrazil on first Turkey,her on Istanbul, in studied who Illinois, Illiopolis, of 20, Bruntjen, Lindsey sophomore as such students produces abroad education for encouragement the and Illinois The internationalemphasisattheUniversity of Growing NewInterest lower cholesterol orconferotherhealthbenefits. might that plants of search in Kazakhstan and taken hertoUzbekistan,Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, has research own whose Lila, said connections,” Academy Connect) (Global the of out forth sprung have grantsmanship joint as well as visits joint workshops, sabbaticalleaves, andresearch fellows program. “Studentandfacultyexchanges, Engagement Global for Academy the replicating in interest keen expressed have universities state other and campus, on engagement international for model role a become has Connect Global said, Lila budget, shoestring a on exporter.Even is thecountry’s secondbiggest agricultural and farms 76,000 has Illinois state. the around farmers with working to addition in world the program, whichnow sendscrop experts around Extension Illinois of University the from someone include fellows The Lila. said species,” invasive horticulturist was makingsure they don’tbecome the and plants; these harvest to how on working was scientist crop the together; meals family

PROFILES OF SUCCESS AT COLLEGES + UNIVERSITIES 17 University of illinois AT URB ANA-CHAMPAIGN Senior Paul Kirbach, 23, of Jerseyville, Illinois, a A Half-Century of Study Abroad double major in animal and crop sciences, spent Agriculture isn’t the only college pushing educa- a semester at Sweden’s 500-year-old Uppsala tion abroad. Eighty percent of the courses at University. In a global crop production class with Illinois with international content reside in the classmates from Eritrea, Germany, Czech Republic, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (LAS), which and Sweden, “we were each other’s textbooks. enrolls almost half of Illinois’s 31,000 under- We got into a few arguments—but we learned,” graduates, said Assistant Dean Barbara Hancin- he said. Kirbach, as an editor of an international Bhatt, the LAS director of International Programs. journal for agriculture students, also got to attend “We have study abroad programs that are almost a conference in Athens, Greece. 50 years old.” The college’s Global Studies Initia- tive infuses global topics into general education “Farm students today appreciate the importance courses for 1,200 to 1,500 freshmen. They are of the international more than some of the urban encouraged to take three-week Global Studies students. If their dads are listening to the daily courses abroad on winter break (as Bruntjen did market forecast, there’s usually a report on what’s to Turkey and Brazil). Subsidies for LAS majors going on with soybeans in Brazil,” said Dean bring the cost of a trip to China or Singapore as Easter. Agribusinesses “tell us that they don’t low as $1,850. Other undergraduates can study in want to hire somebody without international Paris, Rome, Barcelona, or Cape Town for $2,750 experience. If you go to work for a multinational (LAS majors pay $400 less). Hancin-Bhatt and grain trading company, you may be six months in husband Rakesh Bhatt, an associate professor of Decatur, two years in Fargo, and then the next year linguistics, lead a “Discovery Course” to Singa- in Montevideo (Uruguay) running an elevator. So pore for freshmen over winter break. It examines you might as well just expect your career path is how the city-state maintains a national identity going to take you north and south.” while still bolstering the Chinese, Malay, and 18

Barbara Hancin-Bhatt, assistant dean and director of International Programs, leads the “Discovery Course” to Singapore for freshmen. program hasspin-offbenefitsforthe rest ofthe dual-degree The sponsors. corporate major with places both in internships three-month do then campuses, other’s each on semester a spend students Illinois and Singapore program, master’s 18-month the In well. as programs Ph.D. joint offering are they now and engineering, chemical in degrees dual grant already universities two The (NUS). Singapore of University National the with partnership thriving a enjoys Illinois Multiple Function P education we do.” core the of part but enrichment as seen be longer “no must abroad Study said. she resources, curricular integration ofstudy abroad” andmore “serious take will numbers those year.Doubling each overseas sends Illinois that students plus linguist. LASmajors comprise halfofthe2,000- a also is who Hancin-Bhatt, said hugs,” us give and trip the of end the at up come who students We extraordinary. are have faculty and students between built relationships The trips. these on “A tremendous amountoflearninghappens Indian strands ofitsculture andneighborhoods. artnerships south ofcampus, andthatinturncould spur park research own Illinois’s at work of frontiers the push could Fusionopolis at Advances said. he home,” at strengths the to adds and reinforces that way a in university, research international an being to commitment our project and brand our “For us, itpresents anopportunitytoglobalize campus aswe canmake it,”Deliasaid. be “as seamless a projection of activities on this to work on advanced digital technologies. It will postdoctoral studentsthere forextended periods send engineering and computer science faculty and to house physical science institutes. Illinois will and is completing the first phase of a Fusionopolis a biomedical research complex called the Biopolis research in Singapore. A*STAR already has built A*STAR, thegovernment agency thatfunds to further this relationship with NUS and with Arts and Sciences, has made 14 trips to Singapore Relations and former dean of the College of Liberal Delia, executive director of International Research January. each Singapore to Course Discovery that on dorms NUS in stay to freshmen Illinois for door the opening including campus,

PROFILES OF SUCCESS AT COLLEGES + UNIVERSITIES 19 University of illinois AT URB ANA-CHAMPAIGN economic development in Illinois and elsewhere questions from politicians about why the campus in the United States. “We think it’s a win-win enrolls so many international students—5,378 in possibility,” he said. The partnership will also 2007, including 1,731 undergraduates. Chancellor prepare the next generation of Illinois scientists Herman is proud that the undergraduate student and business executives “for the world in which body has become more international on his they’re going to live out their lives: one in which watch, going from 2.2 percent to 5.6 percent in they will have to lead their companies and con- 2007. “I certainly worked very hard to increase duct their research in collaboration, negotiation, the numbers at the undergraduate level,” he said, involvement with international partners.” adding that this has not come at the expense of Illinois students. Instead, the international Relationships with China are “much more compli- share has grown largely by cutting back on the cated,” Delia said. “The barriers to involvement number of out-of-state domestic students. Keith and joint work are obviously higher,” including A. Marshall, associate provost for Enrollment the barrier of language. Illinois has enjoyed a Management, said, “We do virtually no recruiting 20-year partnership with Tsinghua University, of international graduate students—our reputa- and recently launched a new program in which tion, rankings, and excellent academic offerings Tsinghua engineering students will come to Illinois do the work for us. At the undergraduate level for their fourth and fifth year of studies and graduate with both a bachelor of science and a master’s degree. Corporate partners are helping sponsor that program, too, in the belief that the graduates they hire will “support the competitiveness of our international and multinational corporations,” said Delia. The program pays the fees and provides stipends for students in exchange for a work 20 commitment. “The next goal would be to build an American student counterpart to this,” said Delia. Illinois also provides executive leadership training for 300 to 500 Chinese business and government executives who come to Urbana-Champaign each year for short-term programs. Support from the Freeman Foundation brings up to a dozen Chinese academics and social scientists to pursue research on the Illinois campus for a year; and Illinois, home to one of the largest university libraries in the United States, runs a summer training program for Chinese librarians. All of these are “real spires of visible excellence,” said Delia.

Managing Enrollments Eighty-seven percent of the university’s nearly Keith Marshall, associate provost for Enrollment Management, 31,000 undergraduates hail from Illinois. Admin- and Christine Gozdziak, director of International Programs and istrators sometimes find themselves answering Honors, College of Business. “Illinois students recently voted to tack $5 onto their fees each semester to raise $300,000 a year for education abroad scholarships.” Bohn. Rising tuition is already pressuring family family pressuring already is tuition Rising Bohn. B. Andrea Dean ACESAssistant as such istrators the educationabroad challengeharder foradmin- make only will dollar U.S. the of weakness Any Brustein. said generosity,” their for saluted be should “Students abroad. study to minorities need-based scholarships andaidtoencourage generated inthemeantimewillgotoward $900,000 the of Much refunded. fee $5 the get can it to object who Those it. extend to then vote students unless years three in sunset will fee The 2,992). to (6,347 overwhelmingly passed endum the pro-fee studentscarriedtheday andtherefer- But said. he fun?’” have and go to you for pay everyone should Why up. it party and abroad go to want who kids Chicago wealthy these of playing Robin Hood.“Hetoldus, ‘You’re just them accused senator student one said Virginia, Rory Polera, 22,aseniorfrom Williamsburg, number ofsignatures needed from 3,000to2,000. also convincedtheStudentSenatetolower the signatures toputitonareferendum ballot.They by classroom, talkinguptheideaandsoliciting pioned thereferendum. First they went classroom some supportfrom thestudy abroad office, cham- Study Abroad StudentAdvisory Committee, with for educationabroad scholarships. Members ofthe their feeseachsemestertoraise $300,000 ayear Illinois studentsrecently voted totack$5onto still growing,” Marshall pointedout. “we are theonlystateuniversity intheMidwest away. Still, turned rest the and admission offered are 15,000 Some class. freshman its in places 7,000 the for applications 23,000 gets Illinois but hasbeengrowing eachyear inrecent years.” our recruiting ismodestcompared withmany, Mary Kalantzis, dean of the College of Education, is a Ilesanmi Adesida, dean of the College of Engineering native ofGreecebutwasrecruitedfromAustralia. and director of Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology, isfromNigeria. to be$2,400thatyou didn’t have tospend.” going “it’s break, winter over instead experience abroad education an chose students If said. she can helpwitha$1,000scholarship onthat,” we but more, $2,000 cost may “It Champaign. cost aboutthesameasasemesterinUrbana- often which programs, semester consider to ACESstudents convince to Germany,tries native her in Hohenheim of University the at students Bohn, whooncearranged educationabroad for support.” donor more get to Advancement of we face. I’mworking very closelywithourOffice that challenge huge a it’s but Illinois, of versity expenses, shesaid.“Thisisn’tuniquetotheUni- other and airfare for money need still students budgets, andeven withstudyabroad scholarships to maintainits internationalcollaborations, he Illinois for essential is It up.” end you’ll where know never you people—and magnanimous are minds open with People culture. any to open be and people, of types different welcome to mind, open an have to people tell always “I said, 2002, in citizen U.S. a became who Adesida, circuits. and microelectronics and semiconductors up speed to how on discoveries important made and Center forNanoscaleScienceandTechnology, its and Laboratory Nanotechnology and Micro Illinois’s directed he 2006, in dean becoming Before engineering. electrical in degrees three for Berkeley at California of University the to Nigerian highschool.From Lagoshewent his in science and math taught who teachers Corps Peace the to gratitude of debt a feels still Adesida, Ilesanmi Engineering, of College the of dean The international. are administrators senior several and faculty Illinois’s on Many Deans fromNigeria,Australia LEFT TORIGHT:

PROFILES OF SUCCESS AT COLLEGES + UNIVERSITIES 21 University of illinois AT URB ANA-CHAMPAIGN firmly believes. “There’s no way you can bottle stereotypes—have certainly been dispelled for me here up your knowledge,” said Adesida. “Our primary living among people in this community and in this products are our students.” The path to continued university,” she said. U.S. prosperity is to train those “young minds to be adventurous and curious.” Tolstoy, Gandhi Kin Dean of Education Mary Kalantzis wasn’t looking to Connect in Urbana leave Australia when a recruiter came to Melbourne to For Chancellor Herman, it is imperative for Illinois to woo her in 2006. Kalantzis, an expert on multicultural keep moving down this international road. Doubling education and literacy, said friends and colleagues told the education abroad numbers will have the ancillary her, “You can’t go. With No Child Left Behind and benefit of allowing Illinois to admit as many as 1,000 all that stuff, why would you want to be an educator more transfer students, he said. “What we’re trying in America at this moment?” But a visit to Urbana- to do is use this globalization of our students to also Champaign won her over. Illinois was a pacesetter in serve the people in the state better.” special education, including awarding the first Ph.D. in the field and the place where PLATO—one of the Recently a great, great grandson of Leo Tolstoy first computer-assisted teaching tools—was built. It journeyed from Russia to speak at a campus event also developed innovative techniques for teaching promoting a community-wide reading of Tolstoy’s reading and math. “It really is an extraordinary place,” novel, The Death of Ivan Ilyich. At the end of said Kalantzis, who was born in Greece. Vladimir Tolstoy’s talk, an Illinois professor came up to shake his hand and ask him to autograph one of “My goal is to make sure that every single person who his ancestor’s books. The professor was Rajmohan trains to be a teacher has some international experi- Gandhi—grandson of Mahatma Gandhi, the Indian ence,” preferably in a non-English-speaking country, pacifist and freedom crusader—who is a research she said. The experience of trying to catch a bus in professor in International Programs and Studies and 22 an unfamiliar place or negotiating with someone who directs the Global Crossroads Living-Learning Com- doesn’t speak English “will make them more sensitive munity. Herman loves the symmetry of that moment. to the differences they will face in the classroom.” “Imagine, the grandson of Gandhi meeting the great, She added, “The stereotypes of the narrowness great grandson of Tolstoy. Where else but at Illinois and inwardness of Americans—and there are some could this happen?” he asked. Challenges andLessonsforUniversity ofIllinoisatUrbana-Champaign u u u u $900,000 overthreeyears. education abroadscholarshipsthatwillraise approved a$5additionalfeeeachsemesterfor abroad courses.Thestudentbodyrecently course releasecreditsforleadingeducation Brustein hasproposedlettingfaculty“bank” incentives forfacultyandstudentinvolvement. 2012. Leadersrecognizeaneedtocreatenew Herman ispressingtodoublethatnumberby of U.S.universities.ButChancellorRichard year—a greaternumberthanallbutahandful already sends2,000studentsoverseaseach individual collegesandthecampusasawhole. is tofosternewcollaborationsthatbenefitboth ties aroundtheglobe.Thegoal,saidBrustein, on theWeb thatwillcatalogueIllinois’s activi activities oncampusandcreatingadatabase Brustein. Hisofficeisinventoryinginternational of thecampus,”saidAssociateProvostWilliam teaching, research,andengagementmissions new initiativestofurtherinternationalizethe “allowed usto‘greasetheskids’forseveral Council ishelping.Sonewfundingthathas A new, high-levelInternationalAdvisory been goingoninseparateacademicsilos. it’s seekingtobettercoordinatewhathas for internationalprogramsandstudies.Now, relatively latetocreatingacentralizedoffice EDUCATION ABROAD. DECENTRALIZATION. 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PROFILES OF SUCCESS AT COLLEGES + UNIVERSITIES 23 University of illinois AT URB ANA-CHAMPAIGN 24 Flags in Smith-Curtis Classroom-Administration Building. ebraskaUniversity Mints fulbright scholars as N partesleyan of its global plan If luck is the residue of design, it is no coincidence that NebraskWa Wesleyan University has produced 21 Fulbright and one Rhodes Scholar since 2000. This “little college on the prairie,” as one professor calls it, does not leave these matters to chance. There is a National Prestige Scholarship adviser as well as a Fulbright Program adviser who, along with a cadre of like-minded faculty colleagues, scout for talent in freshman seminars. They groom these students, ship them off to Washington for internships, and lead them on service and education abroad trips to Sri Lanka, Swaziland, and Panama—experiences that often provide fodder for the essays these young Nebraskans write for their Fulbright applications . Faculty help protégés polish those essays—one of the 2008 winners went through 20 drafts .

25 Nebraska Wesleyan pushes its faculty out into the world, too. It has a sabbatical policy that may be unique: faculty receive two-thirds salary on sabbaticals in the United States, but 100 percent if they spend that year in another country. “I know of no other place that does that,” said President Frederik Ohles.

Methodist leaders founded the liberal arts school a few miles from the state capital in Lincoln, Nebraska, in 1887, envisioning that it might grow as did another Methodist institution, Northwestern University, outside Chicago. Within a year they had erected the imposing, Colorado red stone and brick landmark known as Old Main. But “Nebraska didn’t develop quite like Illinois did,” said President Emeritus John White. It remained a primarily undergraduate college on a 50-acre campus tucked into Lincoln’s quaint University Place neighborhood, across town from the Uni- versity of Nebraska-Lincoln, with almost as many international students (1,500) as NWU has undergraduates (1,600) in 2007. Nebraska Wesleyan, which remains affiliated with the United Methodist Church, also has 200 graduate students pursuing 26 master’s degrees in nursing, forensic science, and Nhistorical studies. Though the college has gone through several mascots—the Sunflowers, Coyotes, Plainsmen, and now the Prairie Wolves—its brown and gold colors have remained constant. President Frederik Ohles

When it comes to internationalization, NWU is an overachiever. “I suppose we don’t have Wesleyan.” That mentality explains how political some of the bells and whistles and amenities scientist Robert Oberst and a few colleagues won that we might have if we were a wealthy approval for an interdisciplinary Global Studies college,” said Ohles. “We make terrifically program in the early 1980s. Global Studies made good use of all the resources we have. The it through only because “it didn’t cost any mon- faculty here are very busy. They’re teaching four ey. Everything had to be done by the seat of our courses per semester . . . .The Great Plains go-get- pants,” said Oberst. He has led NWU students on it done mentality is alive and well in Nebraska numerous education abroad trips to South Asia

LEFT TO RIGHT: John White, president emeritus, initiated the “100 percent of salary” for faculty who spend their sabbatical year abroad. Robert Oberst, professor of political science, helped start the Global Studies program and leads trips to South Asia. Gerise Herndon, professor of English and director of the Gender Studies program, is the Fulbright Program adviser. Students (lefttoright) DesereéJohnstonofOrchard,Nebraska, ThaoNguyenofHanoi,Vietnam, andLauraReitelofTallinn, Estonia. Eaton, whospentthepasttwo years onsabbatical second RhodesScholarship inNWU’s history. with Xuan-Trang ThiHo,whoin2006 won the Prestige Scholarship adviser. Sheworked closely the results intheend.”Eaton istheNational long-term nurturingandadvisingthatproduces Professor oftheYear in2003, said,“Itisreally the the DepartmentofPolitical ScienceandNebraska’s Gerise Herndon,andElaineKruse. Eaton,chairof the effortsofsuchfacultyasOberst, Kelly Eaton, a reputation asaFulbright factory, itisdueto If Nebraska Wesleyan hasgainedsomethingof Fulbright not thatamusingoranything like him.” are professors Our others. to him show and home back him take and pocket my in him stick just would “I said, she possible, If professors. favorite of list her of top the at Oberst put Estonia, student from theUniversity ofTartu inTallinn, exchange an Reitel, Laura majors. than minors more draws it today although majors, 20 attracted Studies Global heyday its lecturer. In Fulbright a was he where University, Cairo as well as Lanka Sri in University Peradeniya both at taught and actory the parents are shy aboutthewholestudyabroad kind ofscared; they’re notbigrisktakers. Someof tiny towns orrural areas. They’re sheltered and watch whenyou seethestudentscomeinfrom decade, includingfourin2008. “It’s exciting to 1980s, ahalf-dozeninthe 1990s, then21 inthis the years—two Fulbrighters inboththe1970s and Building listthewinners’ names down through of theSmith-CurtisClassroom-Administration program’s adviserin2000. Plaquesinthelobby of theGenderStudiesprogram, becamethat Gerise Herndon,professor ofEnglishanddirector The Fulbright numbers grew geometricallyafter the bar, you canhave great results.” If you raise thebarandhelpstudentstoreach their professors thinkthey have somuchpotential. It isquiteempowering forstudentstolearnthat students asearlythefreshman year, ifpossible. identify [prospects]. Personally, Ibegintoidentify have facultyinmany departmentshelpingusto the work ofahandfulfaculty, butnow “we efforts to groom national scholarship winners were and AmericanStudiesinChina,saidatfirst the University-Nanjing University CenterforChinese and thenonleave teachingattheJohnsHopkins

PROFILES OF SUCCESS AT COLLEGES + UNIVERSITIES 27 neb aska wesley an university LEFT TO RIGHT: Rick Cypert, professor of English and chair of the Global Studies program, took his sabbatical in Athens, Greece. Joyce Michaelis, professor of Spanish, turned several overseas trips into cultural courses on Cuba, India, and Spain.

“Faculty members from…physics, business, and music opted to live abroad for a year, and…introduced international content into thing,” said Herndon. “Because this istheir a small courses.”sabbaticals abroad,” she said. The full-pay policy school, you have the same students in several for sabbaticals abroad as well as the Global classes, and by the time they’re seniors, this Studies program and a revised core curriculum amazing growth has taken place.” Herndon enlists called Preparing for Global Citizenship helped 28 “hard graders” to critique the students’ Fulbright change the campus culture, she added. “It livens applications. “Generally at our university we try to things up,” she said, and turns students “from balance challenge and support, but we do not hold small-town America [into] sophisticated global back on the Fulbright committee and some of the citizens.” In the early 1990s, about 14 students other scholarship committees,” she said. “We tell spent a semester or year abroad. In 2006-07, 51 students, ‘Look, if you’re going to be competitive students studied abroad for at least a semester, with the students from Duke and Johns Hopkins, and dozens more took shorter trips with their you must do better than this.’ We probably scare professors in January or the summer. them a little bit, but they rise to the occasion.” Kruse always puts out the welcome mat during her Professor and Chair of the Department of History Paris sabbaticals, becoming a “pied piper” for the Elaine Kruse has also been a pioneer and paceset- international sabbatical program. “Initially people ter for international research and study. A scholar were reluctant to go to countries where they did of French culture and mores in pre- and revolu- not speak the language. But now we’ve got people tionary France, Kruse just returned from her third coming back from Bulgaria, Turkey, and Thailand. sabbatical in Paris. She was the first professor One of our physics professors went to the Nether- to avail herself in 1992-93 of the then-newly lands and got involved in an international project adopted policy of keeping faculty on full salary on using the bicycle to teach physics,” she said. if they took their sabbatical overseas. “What a difference this has made. Faculty members from When English Professor Rick Cypert visited disciplines as diverse as physics, business, and Kruse in the City of Light, “she was having such music opted to live abroad for a year, and when a wonderful time I thought, ‘My gosh! This they returned they introduced international is what I’ve got to do.” Cypert, a Texan who content into their courses.” When Kruse joined specializes in language theory and the history of the faculty in 1985, “few students were studying rhetoric, took his sabbatical in Athens, immersing abroad and even fewer faculty were taking himself in modern as well as ancient Greece. On interview. “That’s why I pushed the international international the pushed I why “That’s interview. an in explained White 74-year-old the you,” at out jumps just perspective broader a for need the water, salt from far so country, the of middle the in school a you’re “If 2007. in students national come from Nebraska; itenrolled just33inter- students NWU of percent 90 than More Japan. Nishinomiya, in University Gakuin Kwansei with students and faculty of exchange an negotiated personally also He tenure. his during China to one and Greece to trips alumni numerous led English professor andaninveterate traveler who cades aspresident (1977-97).Whitewas aformer international beganduringJohnWhite’s two de- Wesleyan more Nebraska make to push The International Courses Grants toDevelop Studies—and speaksGreek. Global chairs now and mythology, Greek on seminar freshman a taught life, and culture Greek returning, hecreated apopularcourse onmodern

trips overseas earlier turned also Michaelis tional. there by theiremployer, aU.S.-basedmultina- her daughterandson-in-law were transferred after India, Hyderabad, in semester and summer one spent who Spanish, of professor adventurous an Michaelis, Joyce of creation the was latter The Culture ofThailand,andContemporary India. the to Introduction Belize, of TropicalBiology as courses such in resulting awarded, been have grants such Fifty-three courses. new develop to abroad travel to faculty for grants provides ment language immersion weekends, the White Endow- and festivals, film concerts, including campus, on programming international for funds providing to addition In internationalization. the support to continues retirement his upon honor White’s in up set endowment An budget.” the into it built “We just said, White sabbaticals, international To the watch. for his pay on grew both prestige college’s the and enrollment fund-raiser; cessful perspective.” Whitewas bothabuilderandsuc- Spain. Teaching atNWUsince1966,shesaid,

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PROFILES OF SUCCESS AT COLLEGES + UNIVERSITIES 29 neb aska wesley an university “The international aspect has added tremendous vitality to my curricula. It keeps me alive.”

The sabbatical policy was first recommended by a task force that began exploring in the late 1980s how to internationalize NWU. Then-Provost Janet Rasmussen, a Scandinavian literature specialist, was intent on finding ways to open the campus to the world. Initially there was little money to carry out their plans, but the blueprint was ready when the financial situation improved, said Georgianne Mastera, a longtime associate vice president for Academic Affairs who retired this spring after a stint as interim provost.

President Ohles called the international sabbatical policy “an important dynamo for what we’ve achieved with global perspective and global activity.” Ohles himself needed no convincing about the importance of international education when he was named in 2007 as Nebraska Wesleyan’s 16th president. A historian, he was senior vice president of the Council of Independent Colleges Inger Bull (left), director of International Education, is working and once worked on the Fulbright Program for to incorporate more service learning into education abroad 30 the Council for International Exchange of Schol- programs. Yoko Iwasaki-Zink (right), a Nebraska Wesleyan ars. As a graduate student, he spent two years alumna from Japan, is now the international student adviser. researching the censorship of early nineteenth century Germany, living for much of that time make a difference . . . [and] open one’s mind to on a pig farm outside Marburg. “I spent my days the differences in the world,” he said. in archives reading dusty police documents from the 1820s, 1830s, and 1840s, and my evenings One of the tasks that Ohles sees before him is to watching German sitcoms in Bavarian dialect raise new sources of revenue, in part to further with my farm hosts,” said Ohles, who still calls such international ambitions as a Global Service the family each Christmas. He met his wife, who Learning program that allows students to work on is Malaysian, at the International House at the service projects helping the poor in places as distant University of Melbourne in Australia, where she as Vietnam and Swaziland. They spend part of their was an international student and he a visiting summer break building latrines in poor villages, professor. “You can read all the newspapers and volunteering in hospices, and working with AIDS take all the courses you want; it really is the orphans. The same group of 10 to 15 students— ambience, the surroundings, the people that chosen from a wider pool of applicants—works on

LEFT TO RIGHT: Georgianne Mastera, associate vice president for Academic Affairs and interim provost, retired in spring 2008. Janelle Schutte Andreini, interim director of the Career and Counseling Center, helps lead GSL trips and “community conversations” afterward. JoAnn Fuess, professor of Spanish and chair of the Department of Modern Language, also teaches in the Global Studies program. you take away more than you leave.” About 50 an alumna.“Any timeyou doservicesomewhere, to the campus what we’ve learned,” said Andreini, overseas projects. “It’s an intentional way to bring conversations” when the students return from ister, lead the trips and organize the “community Center, andReverend Pauletta Lehn,campus min- the interim director of the Career and Counseling in $1,000eachyear. JanelleSchutteAndreini, cost of the trip); the White Endowment also kicks fee (from $6,500 to $10,000, depending on the Senate funding generated by the student activity (up to $12,000 annually) and by the Student Affairs the university’s Wolf Fund forDiversity Education students pay just$600.They are fundedlargely by trips can cost as much as $2,000 per student, but The international Global Service Learning (GSL) the university.” attention and more support by me and by friends of in Global Service Learning. I think it deserves more Ohles. “I’d like to see us find a way to invest more is largely student driven. It’s very impressive,” said impoverished U.S. community. “That whole activity year andtravels over winterbreak tohelpinan service projects in the Lincoln area throughout the of Modern Languages, which offers majors in in majors offers which Languages, Modern of Department the in draw main the is Spanish Unafraid ofLearninganguages help outinsomesmallway,” saidBull. to and society the of levels all see to opportunity the get “students abroad, stays short on even Valley oftheIncas. Trips like thisensure that the steephillsidesoutsideCuscoandSacred in living villagers helping service, to devoted week third a and sites cultural major country’s the to travel of weeks two include will that Peru to trip 2009 summer a for plans mapping are Bull andJoyce Michaelis, theSpanishprofessor, nationally. but NWU at just not abroad,” study in “most exciting andmostencouraging movement the as learning service of addition the regards Bull Inger Education International of Director national servicetripover winterbreak. projects, andthere isroom for18studentsonthe are welcome tojointhegroup onlocalservice members graduate. Students who are not selected which accepts 3–5, depending on how many GSL students apply each year for the GSL program,

PROFILES OF SUCCESS AT COLLEGES + UNIVERSITIES 31 neb aska wesley an university 32 Education abroad veterans: (front left to right) Ashley Dorwart (Ecuador), Amanda Godemann (Thailand), and Jessica Bauer (France, Netherlands, Ghana, Canada); (rear left to right) Scott Lloyd (Japan, India, and Sri Lanka), student body president, and Tristan Foy (Germany).

Spanish, French, and German, and a minor in at a second university. She had visited both Japanese. Students must take two semesters of Thailand and India once before with an uncle language. Some students are inspired to sign “and fell in love with that part of the world.” up for a second language after returning from Now her ambition is to work on development in abroad, said Department Chair JoAnn Fuess. Southeast Asia. “They are not afraid of learning languages anymore.” Yuko Yamada, an assistant professor, Senior Scott Lloyd, 22, of Lincoln, a political had 45 students in three Japanese classes, and science major and Japanese minor, studied at NWU sent four exchange students to Kwansei Kwansei Gakuin University and also went on one Gakuin University, its sister school. Education of Oberst’s trips to India and Sri Lanka. NWU abroad veterans “are spreading the ‘gospel’ to hammers home the education abroad message as their roommates and friends,” said Fuess, and soon as freshmen arrive, said Lloyd. “Everyone is those friends are “saying to themselves, ‘Maybe aware of it.” I’d like a little piece of that as well.’” Ninety-three students studied abroad in 2006-07, and 23 took Evan Knight, 22, of Lewellen, Nebraska, spent noncredit trips led by university faculty and staff. this past summer taking intensive Arabic courses in Tunisia after winning one of the U.S. State Amanda Godemann, 21, of Lincoln, a senior Department’s Critical Language Scholarships. global studies major, spent spring 2007 at Tham- He will graduate from NWU in December with masat University in Bangkok, Thailand, taking majors in Spanish and history and a minor Thai language and classes taught in English to in French. Knight also studied in Spain for a international students. She extended her stay semester and has a deep interest in the culture through the summer to enroll in intensive Thai and history of Moorish Spain. Love for Spanish apply fortheRhodes. “Iwas extremely fortunate to time came it when helped experiences The agencies. international and federal in students places which (CHIP), Program Internship Hill Capitol university’s the in Washington in semester a spent and Argentina, in studied trips, who tookpartinseveral globalservicelearning a politicalscienceandSpanishmajoratNWU was Oxford, at studies American Latin in degree philosophy of master a completed just who Ho, and culture onSaturdays. language the learn to children their send parents this spring.Today Lincolnhastwo schoolswhere Lincoln ChineseCultural Associationwhoretired come alongway, too,”saidLu,afounder ofthe before. has ever than Wesleyan city diversified more a becoming is “Lincoln refugees. those Trang ThiHo,theRhodesScholar, was oneof Vietnamese refugees inthe early1990s;Xuan- for community resettlement a became Lincoln from San Francisco for five families to share. said. They would order 100-pound bags of soybeans were no soy beans or soy sauce in the grocery,” she few Chinese families in town. In the old days, there Nebraska capital in 1979, “we were one of the very professor of mechanical engineering, arrived in the her husband, a University of Nebraska-Lincoln to Lincolnfornearlythree decades. WhenLuand has helped bring Chinese culture to campus and Lu, a native of Shanghai who grew up in Taiwan, Professor of Library Information Technology Janet us.” to opened opportunities of world new whole speak asecondorthird languagemeant,andthis to ability the what realize to began we college, to got we Once school. high in languages with love in fell just all I and sisters My us. pushed never “and languages other no speak parents his said Knight French. and Spanish in majoring double and hisyoungest siblingisanNWUfreshman, department, health Nebraska a for interpreter Spanish a is second teacher,a Spanish school high a is sister One family. Knight the in runs “Education abroadveterans‘arespreadingthe ‘gospel’ totheirroommatesandfriends’…” ‘gospel’ culture tocampus and totheLincolncommunity. Janet Lu, professor of Library Information Technology, helped bring Chinese Truman Foundation selectsstudentswithstrong a the fourthNebraska Wesleyan studenttowin Junior Desereé Johnstonthis springbecame were aninvaluable assetintheprocess.” They Rhodes. the before me ‘grill’ to advocates devil’s played who people with interviews mock two up set Dr. and Eaton times, many statements letters. Professors read andcritiquedmy essays/ positive very me write to agreed happily they I neededeightletters ofrecommendation and said by e-mailfrom Oxford. “For theRhodes, staff whowere always available tohelpme,” she and professors numerous by surrounded be to Truman Scholarship forgraduate school.The

PROFILES OF SUCCESS AT COLLEGES + UNIVERSITIES 33 neb aska wesley an university leadership potential who intend to pursue careers Korea, Azerbaijan, Vietnam, Mexico, Ecuador, in government or other public service. Johnston, and elsewhere go through in adjusting to life who wants to work on international development, on a U.S. campus. “I think their experience is, grew up on a 7,000-acre farm outside Orchard, in fact, the same experience I had. They’re very Nebraska (pop. 391), but her upbringing was far happy when they arrive; they’re very excited. from isolated. Her parents would pull her out of One month later, they’re kind of overwhelmed by school each February—when the farm season classes and homework. Some students struggle allowed—and take her on two- and three-week with homesickness,” she said. On that score, trips to Europe, China, Russia, Egypt, and other technology has made life easier because today’s destinations. School officials were miffed, “but you students can easily keep in touch with family and learn so much when you travel,” she said. friends by e-mail and Skype. “Technology has helped them a lot. When I was a student, there was no Facebook,” she said. Support for International Students Thao Nguyen, 20, a junior from Hanoi, Vietnam, Inger Bull has directed Nebraska Wesleyan’s in- is one of the exceptions among the international ternational education office for the past decade. students in that he will spend four years at She also teaches the optional one-credit courses Nebraska Wesleyan earning a bachelor’s degree that help U.S. students prepare for education in mathematics and economics. He attended abroad and, afterward, write essays to make an international high school in Vietnam, where sense of their experiences (Professor of History instruction was entirely in English. Though he Kruse customarily works with Bull on the latter). had visited the United States for an international The university doubled the size of the office student conference, he found NWU by searching in 2005 by hiring Yoko Iwasaki-Zink, a 2000 online. “The Midwest sounded like something alumna from Japan, as the international student new, and Wesleyan gave me a good scholar- 34 adviser. Although only a few dozen international ship,” he said. The weather was colder than students are enrolled on campus each year, the he expected, but Nguyen found the Americans ones who make it to Lincoln can count on strong “very friendly” and he welcomes the diversity of support from Bull, Iwasaki-Zink, and faculty. “A NWU’s small band of international students. lot of big schools lament the fact that they can never get their U.S. students to integrate with the Georgianne Mastera, the now retired academic internationals and vice versa. That’s easy for us administrator, remembers two decades ago when because they see each other every day in our of- there was no international education director fice. Many of our Nebraska students have studied or office, and an assistant provost with other abroad because of international students they responsibilities oversaw the institution’s few op- have met,” Bull said. Most of the international portunities for education and research abroad. It students attending classes on the Lincoln campus is still “not a huge office, but when you compare are on one-semester or full-year exchanges the transition from that very fraction of an ad- from partner universities in the International ministrator to where we are now, it’s a dramatic Student Exchange Program (ISEP) network, or change in a small institution,” she said. on bilateral exchanges from Kwansei Gakuin University, the University of Tartu in Estonia, or The emphasis on imparting a global perspective Tec de Monterrey in Querétaro, Mexico. to students’ education “has made a tremendous difference to our campus,” said Mastera, a former Iwasaki-Zink spent four years on campus business administration professor. It shows that earning her bachelor’s degree. She had already “when you set a kind of fertile environment earned an associate’s degree and worked as an in which people have the opportunity to have administrative assistant for a Japanese company international experiences, to address international before coming to Lincoln in 1996. Iwasaki-Zink issues, to learn languages, to engage in broaden- understands what students from Europe, Japan, ing experiences, great things can happen.” u u u u u u Challenges andLessonsfromNebraska Wesleyan University they pay in Lincoln. Bilateral exchanges with they payinLincoln.Bilateralexchangeswith at 110universitiesworldwideforthesameprice Student ExchangeProgram,studentscanstudy that rateto50percent.ThroughtheInternational 2007 studiedabroadandNWUhopestoboost Bull said.Still,almost30percentoftheclass education abroadopportunities“isparamount,” for federalPellGrants.Affordabilityoftuitionand dents receiveneed-basedaid;onefourthqualify Vietnam, Panama,Swaziland,andNicaragua. in orphanagesandnursinghomesElSalvador, latrines, helpedAIDSsufferers,andvolunteered ing countries.Since2004studentshavebuilt each summertoworkwiththepoorindevelop words intopracticebysendingupto15students A GlobalServiceLearningprogramputsthose serving membersofthehumancommunity.” importance ofstudents’becoming“usefuland the collegehaslonghadamissionstressing ing themabroad. overseas, andincreasinglystudentsarefollow strongly encouragesfacultytoconductresearch global engagement.”Buttheprivateinstitution rural geography do not usually conjure images of Bull noted,“Nebraska’s land-lockedlocationand ties. AsDirectorofInternationalEducationInger come fromthestate,halfruralcommuni AFFORDABILITY. SERVICE. LOCATION. Founded by Nebraska Methodists, Founded byNebraskaMethodists, Ninety percent of NWU students Seventypercentofstu u u u u spent a semester or longer abroad in 2007. spent asemesterorlongerabroadin2007. also areopeningdoors.Arecord51students three universitiesinJapan,Mexico,andEstonia environmentalism.” and begintomakesomeconnectionswithglobal get intoarainforest,seethatpartoftheworld, native vegetation,it’s importantforstudentsto Nebraska wherewe’velost95percentofour Jerald Brickersaid,“Especiallyinaplacelike Administration. AssociateProfessorofBiology from theNationalOceanicandAtmospheric a studentrecentlywonHollingsScholarship trips toBelize,CostaRica,andHonduras, have provedsopopularthatfacultynowlead trips inwinterandsummertoCentralAmerica But thebiologydepartment’s educationabroad when thinkingabouttropicalmarinebiology. capital isnotthefirstplacethatcomestomind international courses. development grantsupto$1,000develop sabbatical policy—alsoprovidesfacultywith Emeritus JohnWhite—whoinstitutedthe Ukraine. AnendowedfundhonoringPresident China, Greece,SriLanka,Turkey, Thailand,and this opportunityinsuchcountriesasCostaRica, Thirty-four facultyhaveavailedthemselvesof if theyspendtheyearoutsideUnitedStates. ceive 100percentofsalaryinsteadtwo-thirds OUTSIDE THE BOX. SABBATICALS. Facultyonsabbaticalsre The Nebraska TheNebraska

PROFILES OF SUCCESS AT COLLEGES + UNIVERSITIES 35 neb aska wesley an university 36 Statue of the “Gorilla,” the athletics program mascot, in front of the Overman Student Center. University W i n n i n g F ormula i n I n ter n atioittsburgn alizatio n F ou n d i n Pa K a n sas C or n er It was no atateccident that the nineteenth century founders of Pittsburg, Kansas, chose a name that called to Smind the much bigger and grander Pittsburgh (with an ‘h’) in Pennsylvania’s coal mining precincts. Little Pitts- burg in the Sunflower State’s southeast corner was awash in coal that drew miners from Italy and the Bal- kans. The railroads came, too, to ferry the ore to zinc smelters in nearby Joplin, Missouri . The Kansas legislature established the Aux- iliary Manual Training Normal School in Pittsburg in 1903 to prepare industrial arts teachers . Soon that mission broadened . It became Kan- sas State Teachers College in 1923 and Pittsburg State University in 1977 . Its graduates include Debra Dene Barnes, the 1968 Miss Ameri- ca, the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet James Tate, and H . Lee Scott, president and CEO of Wal-Mart . Its football team, nicknamed the Gorillas, has won three national championships and amassed the most wins in NCAA Division II history .

37 More importantly, today Pittsburg State University boasts more than 7,000 students and a reputation as a strong regional university with deep and growing international ties from Paraguay to Korea to Kazakhstan. The student body includes 490 international students, many on exchanges from partner universities around the world. Pitt State sends teams of business majors to Russia to teach high school and university students about ethics in free enterprise, and automotive technology students to Korea to compete—and win—in a “mini-Baja” dune buggy competition. Education majors hone their teaching skills in classrooms in Paraguay and Russia, and enterprising faculty have won several federal Title VI grants for a host of international business and education projects. “This didn’t happen overnight. This has been a long history of this institution,” said President Tom W. Bryant, still jet lagged from a spring journey to visit partner universities and forge new relationships in Malaysia, Thailand, and Vietnam. Bryant said the region’s rich ethnic heritage “may be one of the things that made all this possible. This little community reaches out its hands to the international students, and maybe it’s because 38 they remember their grandparents coming over Mon the ships.”

President Tom Bryant sampled cake at the campus ceremony Faculty Behind the Wheel celebrating the 2008 Senator Paul Simon Award for Campus At a ceremony celebrating the 2008 Senator Paul Internationalization. Simon Award for Campus Internationalization, Steven Scott, provost and vice president for One such faculty member, John Tsan-Hsiang Academic Affairs said, “We owe this to the Chen, joined the Department of Engineering Tech- faculty—the faculty who serve on the Interna- nology in 1981 and soon bore the title of assistant tional Council, the faculty who’ve had a com- to the president for Chinese Affairs. Over the mitment and a passion for international travel, past 25 years, Chen has recruited and mentored international engagement, internationalizing the hundreds of students from his native Taiwan, curriculum.” and from China as well, and helped cement ties

LEFT TO RIGHT: Steven Scott, provost and vice president for Academic Affairs. John Tsan-Hsiang Chen, professor and assistant to the president for Chinese Affairs, helped build campus ties with his native Taiwan and with China. Anil Lal, professor of economics, leads education abroad trips to his native India. in economics at Washington State University University State Washington at economics in for theWorld Bankbefore completingadoctorate consultant and India in servant civil a was Lal name isgoingoutanymore.” our where know even don’t we and internet the on networking social whole this add you Now “is thegreatest recruiter ofinternationalstudents. word-of-mouth that agreed Olcese Chuck Affairs International of Director Lal. said come,” others then and place this about things good say here the Indianequivalent ofFacebook. “Thestudents on word the spreading themselves students with phenomenon,” internet “the by driven is growth the of some said Lal Program. English Intensive its in classes took others half-dozen a and spring, past this India from students 53 record a enrolled State Pitt campus. Kansas the for recruits and leads educationabroad trips tohisnative India Lal, anassociateprofessor ofeconomicswho Anil said Chen, followed who faculty national “Life hasbecomemucheasier”fortheinter- from partneruniversities inTaiwan andChina. half exchanges, on came students international State’s Pitt of 80 2007, fall In time. vacation him docked chairman Taiwan, department to his back one ofhisfirst tripsonthe university’s behalf on that smile a with remembers Chen name, his bears that students international for scholarship a with honored Now universities. dozen two with “We havethediversitymostschoolswould “We pray anddreamabout.We’reonthe pray Chuck Olcese, director of International Affairs, chairs the 15-member Choong Lee, professor of management, initiated student and faculty exchange with South Korea and helped start a sister-school right path…” relationship inUzbekistanandKazakhstan. Internationalization Council. 20 countries. “We have the diversity most schools schools most diversity “We the have countries. 20 M.B.A. program are international;they hailfrom Muoghalu’s in students 140 the of Half curve.” the of ahead way It’s international. more is that one find can’t you size, this schools other to State Pitt compare you professor.“If finance the said place,” this with love in fell just I reason, some “For world. the around from students draws runs Pitt State, buttheM.B.A. program thatMuoghalu program. Today onlysix Nigerianstudentsattend degrees inPittState’s highlyranked technology country. They cameatgovernment expense for home his from 100 students than more enrolled State Pitt ago, decades two faculty the joined M.B.A. program attheKelce CollegeofBusiness, the of director Nigerian-born the Muoghalu, When University Professor ofFinanceMichael one isindispensable.” no is government in learned I thing “One said. he duties ontosomeoneelse. “That’s my strategy,” recruiting the pass can he that point the to ties those develop to hopes he and India, in doors said. Lal’s personal connectionshave opened he to, else someone convince or come” might they honest, and genuine I’m feel they “If State. Pitt on students sell to try he does indirectly advice aboutstudyingintheUnitedStates. Only general offering and economics development audiences onIndiancampusesby lecturingon large draws He 1995. in State Pitt joining and LEFT TORIGHT:

PROFILES OF SUCCESS AT COLLEGES + UNIVERSITIES 39 PITTSburg state university would pray and dream about. We’re on the right with the National University of Uzbekistan and path,” he said. also Kazakhstan,” said Lee, who said Pittsburg State is as well known as Harvard in parts of the Professor of Management Choong Lee is a region. Lee’s interest in central Asia was whetted faculty dynamo who has helped forge deep ties by hearing U.S. officials emphasize the region’s with universities in his native Korea and, more strategic importance to world peace. recently, in central Asia. Having taught in Brazil, “Korea was not big enough for Choong,” said an admiring Peggy Snyder, dean of Continuing and Multiple International Graduate Studies. Lee joined the faculty in 1989 Partnerships after earning a B.S. in nuclear engineering at the Pitt State’s automotive technology program is prestigious Seoul National University in Korea, ranked near the top nationally and its engineering and completing two master’s degrees and a Ph.D. technology graduates are prized by employers at the University of Iowa. Lee has won three in the auto and aviation industries. The College consecutive Title VIb Business and International of Technology, in a showcase, $28 million, Education grants from the U.S. Department of Ed- 278,000-square foot Kansas Technology Center, ucation—grants aimed at helping U.S. businesses is also one of the biggest draws for international become more globally competitive with university students. Lee initiated a flourishing exchange of assistance—and is going for a fourth. He consults students and faculty with Gyeongsang National extensively in Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, University (GNU) in Jinju, South Korea. In 2006 and Kyrgyzstan and hopes to establish a Center for Pitt State sent three students for five months Central Asian Business and Research at Pitt State. to GNU, where they tutored GNU students in “We developed the first sister-school relationship English, then competed against teams from 80

40 Cody Emmert (left), graduate student, and John Iley (right), professor and chair of Technology Studies, captain and instructor, respectively, for the Pittsburg State winning team of the Society of Automotive Engineers Mini Baja in South Korea. an envoy forParaguay. degree will helpherfulfillgoalofbecoming and education American the summer,believes past this capital her in office Nations United the international studies. Ramirez, whointernedfor and science political in degree State Pittsburg a obtain to Asunción in University National the at law in program six-year her interrupted major, studies international and science political junior a 24, Ramirez, Jazmin Asunción. from 21, junior Crosa, a Cecilia said deal,” good very a “It’s students. international the of 10percent approximately comprised Paraguayans 2007, In tuition. in-state pay to students Paraguayan allows legislature Kansas the and 1968, since exchanges citizen on collaborated Paraguayhave and Kansas America. Latin with Progress for Alliance his F. and John Kennedy President by inspired partnership a Paraguayunder with Pittsburg Statealsohasa rich relationship automotive industry. international increasingly the in career a pursues he as plus major a be to Korea of knowledge his John Iley. Emmertisacarlover whoexpects Professor andChairmanof Technology Studies University said salaries, starting $60,000 mand said Emmert.StudentssuchasEmmertcancom- it,” believed have wouldn’t I internationally, tion months orbeinvolved inanengineeringcompeti- six for Korea to going be would I that freshman both teams. “Ifyou toldmewhenIwas a captained Kansas, Seneca, of 22, Emmert, Cody from theruggedrace. month—returning withthe championshiptrophy a 2007for in team another sent State Pitt built. and designed they vehicle buggy-like dune a in “Mini-Baja” grueling a in universities Korean Alice Sagehorn, professor of education, became the founding director of the Studies, was among the first group to expand opportunities for study and Studies, wasamongthefirstgrouptoexpandopportunitiesforstudyand Paul Zagorski, professor of social science and director of International Pittsburg StateinParaguayprogram. Pittsburg State University in Paraguay program program Paraguay in University State Pittsburg the of director founding the became and year a for activities abroad education State’s Pitt nated teens inthePittsburg publicschools. Shecoordi- and children to Mandarin teach to China from teachers bring to another and (ESOL) Languages teachers toteachEnglishforSpeakers ofOther Kansas more train to one including Education, of College the of work the expand to grants federal large securing at adept became Sagehorn ly instruction attheUniversity ofArkansas. Quick - semesters tocompleteaPh.D.incurriculumand former elementaryschoolteacherjustseven the took it 1992, in faculty the join to returning earned hermaster’s degree atPittState. After who Sagehorn, busy the recalled started,” it how “He said,‘You’re onthecommittee,’ andthat’s on thecommittee.” women no and Education of College the from one no there’s things: two noticed I but wonderful, the deanofArtsandSciencessaid,“Thisis approached She possibilities. the by intrigued was Instruction, and Curriculum of Department the in professor a Sagehorn, Alice curriculum. and faculty its internationalize to received State Pittsburg that grants federal VI Title the by planted itsflag.Thepushin Paraguay was helped State Pitt where is that and Asunción, in tion research abroad. They gottheirwarmest recep - and study for opportunities expanding about see to 1998 in America South to traveled who sors Studies Paul Zagorski was oneofseveral profes- International of Director and Science Social of sor State orotherU.S.universities. University Profes - Pitt to transferable credits, 24 earn can students education evening classesinEnglish.Inayear, general four-week of series a teach to country Pitt Stateprofessors travel tothatland-locked research abroad. LEFT TORIGHT:

PROFILES OF SUCCESS AT COLLEGES + UNIVERSITIES 41 PITTSburg state university in 2004. She has made 14 trips to Paraguay in the past eight years, including taking education majors every other summer to practice teach in an international school in Asunción. Sagehorn conceived the Pittsburg State in Paraguay program on a long flight home after overhearing a Paraguayan mother tell her college-age daughter that leaving home to study in the United States before turning 21 was out of the question. “I got to thinking: If we can’t bring the students to Pittsburg, how can we bring Pitt State to Paraguay?” Sagehorn said. The program attracts upwards of two dozen students each year, some of whom complete their undergraduate studies in Pittsburg like Cecilia Crosa and Jazmin Ramirez.

There is “very much a private college feel” to Pittsburg State, said Bruce Dallman, dean of the College of Technology. “The student-faculty interaction here is out of the ordinary, especially for a public institution.” Students, domestic and international, savor the attention. Ankit Jain, 22, a senior automotive engineering major from 42 New Delhi, India, said it came as no surprise that Pitt State won the Senator Paul Simon Award. “They made a good choice. This is the second best in the whole U.S. for automotive engineering, and our university is improving Eric Herbers (left), engineering science undergraduate, and day by day,” said Jain, president of the Indian Bruce Dallman (right), dean of the College of Technology. Student Association. Sinharoy said. But the town and the “continuous exchange of culture between the Americans and Why Pitt State? international students” grew on her. Sinharoy, Semonti Sinharoy, 21, a senior from Calcutta, headed next to Columbia University in New India, who double majored in plastics engineering York for a master’s in engineering management, recently won an undergraduate research award and chemistry, said, “I came here for the plastics from the Society of Plastics Engineers for helping program. Basically, there are only three or four recycle foams and plastics made from soybean oil. schools in the U.S. with a plastics program like this.” Coming from a city with 4.5 million people, Sung Hwan Kim, 24, a junior accounting major Pittsburg (with 20,000) took some getting used to, from Seoul, Korea, first came to Pittsburg State on

Pittsburg State takes great pride in the Intensive English Program (IEP), staffed by seven full-time faculty…” his parents backinNagoya. like electronics, in up wind to expects He that.” do can’t I computers. their fix to me want of kind major, “people his mentions he when that laugh for theChineseStudentAssociation, saidwitha activities of director Wu, the physics. and math in coursework extensive involves which technology, He returned toenroll inelectronics engineering Program. English Intensive noncredit the for State Pitt to came first Japan, Nagoya, in raised but China, Shanghai, in born was who Wu, 22, Xiao years before coming here,” Kimsaid. two for army the in served I students]. [other these than older bit little a “I’m home. back university a to returned had he if than profession accounting the into route faster a provide will Kansas in degree his finishing that believes who an exchange. “Now I’mpaying tuition,” saidKim, Opportunities of International Programs & Services, where where Services, & Programs International of Office flag-filled the from corridor the down Hall, Whitesitt in offices spacious occupies IEP them,” saidMekkaoui. for here company.We’re really insurance the with dealing we’re accident, car a have they if and, with everything. We helpthemfindplacestolive them help and students our in interest personal a take to “We’re able universities. U.S. other to others usetheirEnglishskills towinadmission degrees, pursue to Pittsburg at stay Most late. of contingents large sending begun has Arabia most studentshave comefrom Asia,butSaudi Traditionallysemester. spring the for 68 2007and fall in students 77 had IEP The Mekkaoui. said difference,” huge a makes that and qualified, well has amaster’s degree inteachingEnglishandis sistants; we don’thave facultywives. Everybody Program. We don’thave graduate teachingas- English Intensive the in faculty full-time keeping Spanish. “PittStatehasbeenvery supportive in Peace Corpsveteran fluentinArabic, French, and a Mekkaoui, Christine by directed and faculty full-time seven by staffed (IEP), Program English Intensive the in pride great takes State Pittsburg A V Association. native ofTurkey, becamepresidentoftheInternationalStudent Meltem Tugut, coordinator of International Programs and a ariety

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PROFILES OF SUCCESS AT COLLEGES + UNIVERSITIES 43 PITTSburg state university domestic students come to learn about study/ A service learning program called Stu- education abroad opportunities and international dents In Free Enterprise (SIFE) also turns students come for academic advice as well Pitt State students into world travelers. as help with visas. Under Olcese, director of SIFE, supported by a phalanx of U.S. International Affairs since 1999, the office has and multinational corporations, sponsors been transformed into the hub for much of the competitions worldwide in which teams international activities on campus. “Chuck has of students vie to demonstrate mastery of taken it to a different level,” said Mekkaoui. “He business skills and ethics. The 50-mem- is more the international face, trying to involve ber SIFE chapter at Pitt State has traveled the upper administration and the whole campus to Russia and Kazakhstan on several in making things international.” He heads a occasions. Rebecca Casey, interim chair- staff of six that includes a full-time study abroad person of the Department of Accounting, coordinator—a position created in 2006 and held has led three of those trips, including by Julia Helminiak. President Bryant observed, one in which her students brought along “We’ve got good leadership and staff over there.” a video they made in Russian with Pitt He believes the next challenge for Pitt State is State students’ role-playing a scenario to convince more students to go abroad. More about bribery in the workplace. The than 100 Pitt State students studied abroad in video ended with tax agents’ arresting 2006-07—triple the number from seven years the buyer and the business falling apart. “It earlier—and others went overseas on service really made them stop and think,” said Casey, an trips. Every student who studies abroad receives alumna. “I think we convinced a lot of them.” a university scholarship ranging from $200 to $1,000 to defray costs. In the past two years, 17 Both Bryant and Scott, the provost, are former faculty have led students on 18 education abroad deans of education who began their careers as trips to 13 countries, including Korea, China, high school teachers. Although their background 44 India, Paraguay and Brazil. was not in international education, “we value those experiences,” Scott said. Both have avidly Turkish-born Meltem Tugut entered Pitt State as a supported the institution’s international under- freshman in 2000, became president of the Inter- takings and looked to create more opportunities national Student Association, graduated summa for students, faculty, and administrators “to travel cum laude, and later served as coordinator of and learn about international issues,” said Scott. international programs while completing the One of his first moves as provost was finding the second of two master’s degrees in business. Tu- resources that allowed the Office of International gut, who this fall started studying for a business Programs to hire Helminiak as the campus’s first doctorate at St. Louis University, said one of her full-time study abroad coordinator. Scott recalled favorite memories is International Recognition a meeting at the outset of the academic year Night in October, when international students are where senior administrators and faculty discussed honored by being called out onto the court during their international travel plans and agenda. “We halftime of a women’s volleyball contest. didn’t have a globe, but it’s almost like you’ve

LEFT TO RIGHT: Rebecca Casey, interim chair of the Department of Accounting and an alumna, has led three of the SIFE program trips. William Ivy, dean of Enrollment Management and Student Success, oversees the Office of International Programs & Services. Michael Muoghala, director of the M.B.A. program at the Kelce College of Business, is a native of Nigeria. volunteered toworkinhospitalsMexicoduringtheirwinterbreak. Barbara McClaskey, professor of nursing, and nursing students who country. Professor of Nursing Barbara McClaskey McClaskey Barbara Nursing of Professor country. communist former the in orphanages in work to Romania to students led therapy, has recreational is field whose Ferguson, Dan Professor Education fields. of range wide a in professors of interests Pitt Statealsoencourages theinternational it, I’llhelpyou,’” saidScott. something andyou’d like toknow itorunderstand or ‘Iknow more thanyou.’ It’s about,‘IfIknow helping, helping.It’s notaboutsmugness to beginwith,”hesaid.“Part ofourculture is this trips. SomebodytookAlice SagehorntoParaguay pioneers, thatnow have offspringtakingtheirown territorial. “You’ve gottheseearly adopters, these international profile isthat thefacultyaren’t that PittStatehascarved out suchasignificant Theprovost, analumnus, believes one reason that’s theperspective ispretty remarkable.” where Kansas southeast in community small a To about work. this think do to going who’s and going were we where out Paraguay,figuring about certainly and Russia, Kazakhstan, Korea, Taiwan, China, India, “Weabout talked Scott. said you,” of front in out laid world whole the got have that opportunity?” opportunity?” that have kids our shouldn’t Why them. make can we as economy that in successful as and marketable as be abletocompeteinthisglobaleconomy andbe to “need towns small and County Crawford from from here intheMidwest,” hesaid.Students students our for that do Wediversity. to the need “We increase. love number that see gladly would Bryant international. are students graduate of 10 and percent undergraduates of percent Five for facultytointernationalizetheircourses. money would fundscholarships andincentives $2.5 millionforinternationalinitiatives. That including million, $120 seeking is that second president andisnearingthe finishlineon a major fund-raising drive soonafterbecoming one completed He president. as decade a after 2008-09 the of end the at retiring be player, will basketball college onetime a Bryant, lanky The appreciate theirbeinghere.” people that and here important they’re that tions The internationalstudentsdon’thave any ques- as well asthepresident. It’s quiteimpressive. and three vicepresidents show upforthedinner deans “six banquet, international annual the at that noted He profile. international large State’s jumped onamoving train here,” IvysaidofPitt of kind “I University. State Oklahoma from 2007 in State Pitt to came Ivy Success. Student and Management Enrollment oversees Ivy,who William Dean to reports office international The International Activities R Kansas City. of Hospital Luke’s Saint at unit transplant organ the in graduation after waiting job a had who Kansas, Shawnee, of 22, Manthei, Sarah senior said there,” down through go they what see to eyes Texas.Paso, your El from opens River “It Grande Rio the across Mexico, Juarez, Ciudad in hospitals in volunteer to opportunity an students nursing give to break winter over trips two leads aising F unds

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PROFILES OF SUCCESS AT COLLEGES + UNIVERSITIES 45 PITTSburg state university Challenges and Lessons from Pittsburg State University

uu TEAMWORK. A 15-member Internationaliza university also sees it as a cushion against a tion Council with broad faculty and administrative projected drop in Kansas high school graduates. representation plays a key role in coordinating ef forts. “Internationalization cannot be done without uu CULTIVATING COMMUNITY a committee or some other representative body SUPPORT. Pitt State engages townspeople to that includes all areas of the campus—academic put out the welcome mat for international students, and administrative,” said Director of International and Chuck Olcese says the campus draws Affairs Chuck Olcese, its chairperson. “It can large dividends from cultivating the town-gown be tricky to work out, but if done right is really relationship for international programs. “We essential.” The Pitt State council was seen as have really been blessed with a very welcoming mainly administrative because it answered to the place that embraces our international students. President, but now has an academic affairs com Community volunteers are invaluable. Treat them mittee to dialogue with the Faculty Senate. “Draw well, reward them and always be recruiting more the circle as big as you can,” said Olcese, and keep volunteers from every group you visit,” said Olcese. the president and his senior team “up-to-date on all He passes up no opportunity to speak before local internationalization efforts.” Faculty are very active organizations, from the Rotary to church groups. as well in the separate, 11-member Study Abroad The university has staged seminars for Kansans on Committee, chaired by Study Abroad Coordinator doing business in China, Ukraine, and Kazakhstan. Julia Helminiak. When former Liberian President Ruth Sando Perry and former Burundian President Sylvie Kinigi spoke uu CHALLENGES OF DIVERSITY. Pittsburg on campus about peace and growth prospects State is a mid-size university in a rural corner of in Africa, the university saved seats for area high Kansas that draws students primarily from small school and community college students. 46 towns in Kansas and neighboring Missouri and Oklahoma. The hundreds of international students uu SELLING STUDY/EDUCATION add measurably to campus and community diver ABROAD. The number of students who study sity. “It’s a real benefit for a kid who’s never left abroad is low (117 in 2007). But the university mar Crawford County to meet somebody from Taiwan,” shaled the resources to create a full-time position said Richard Dearth, interim business dean. The in 2006 to coordinate education abroad programs, u u u u u u professional tiestobuildstrong,bilateralpartner The universityhasleveragedtheirpersonaland 300 facultymemberswereborninothercountries. and InternationalEducationprogram. Management ChoongLee,directoroftheBusiness you cannotfunctionverywell,”saidProfessorof “Money isnoteverything—butwithoutmoney 2004, andtobeginteachingRussianKorean. in 2001andaninternationalbusinessprogram university tolaunchaninternationalstudiesmajor over thepastdecade.Title VIgrantsallowedthe much ofPittState’s successininternationalizing faculty, allwithM.A.’s. staffed andsituatedaswell,withsevenfull-time students. TheIntensiveEnglishProgramiswell than typicallyfoundataninstitutionwith7,000 & Student SuccessWilliamIvyJr. saysislarger Services, whichDeanofEnrollmentManagement & staff ofsixforitsOfficeInternationalPrograms FACULTY ROOTS. ENTERPRISE. SUPPORT STRUCTURES. all newstudentsandparents. Knowledge” sessionaregularpartoforientationfor It alsomadean“InternationalExperienceand and bothparticipationopportunitiesarerising. won grants have fueled Faculty-wongrantshavefueled More than 40 of Pitt State’s Pitt State has a Pitt Statehasa u u u u all ofushaveaparttoplay.” play. Somearegoingtobegreaterthanothers,but international globalization.Allofushaveapartto anybody: Don’t believethatyoucan’t buyintothe have aspirationsandmakeithappen.Iwouldtell added: “WhatI’msayingisthatasmallschoolcan experiences thatyouprovideforyourstudents.”He fact isthatonsomescale,youcanenhancethe kinds ofexperiencesthatyoucan’t do.Butthe have—are valuable.You maythinktherearecertain is “thatallyourstudents—thestudentsyou main lessonfromPittState’s internationalization will fiteachone.” represent theuniversity. Lookforopportunitiesthat deans andchairsaspossibletraveloverseasto “Make surethepresident,provostandasmany Scott. “It’s peopletopeople.”Olceseadvises, one conversationatatime,”saidProvostSteven ting peopletocooperate.“Changereallyhappens been adeptatstretchinglimitedresourcesandget initiatives, saidfacultyandadministratorshave ence professorwhohasspearheadedinternational AIM HIGH. COOPERATION. representing studentsfromtheirpartoftheworld. home countryandadvisetheinternationalclubs elsewhere. Severalleadrecruitmenteffortsintheir ships withuniversitiesinKorea,Taiwan, India,and PresidentTom W. Bryantsaysthe Paul Zagorski,apoliticalsci

PROFILES OF SUCCESS AT COLLEGES + UNIVERSITIES 47 PITTSburg state university Flags of the United Nations depicted on the chapel’s stained glass window. University The China Connection Marks a alparaisoBold New Era Preparing to celebrate its 150th anniversary in 2009, VValparaiso University can look back on three distinct epochs in an unusual history: its founding by Methodists in 1859 as Valparaiso Male and Female College, a pioneer of coeducation that lasted only a dozen years; revival as a teacher college and business school that billed itself as “the poor man’s Harvard,” and became one of the country’s largest universities before falling into bankrupt- cy after World War I; and its Phoenix-like rebirth in 1925 as an independent Lutheran university . The Rev . O .P . Kretzmann, president from 1940 to 1968, looms large over the university’s history . Kretzmann built the imposing Chapel of the Resurrection, more cathedral than chapel, with 98-foot-high stained glass windows that tower over the 320-acre campus . Valparaiso remains the thriving, faith-based institution that Kretzmann built, with nearly 3,000 undergraduates pursuing a mix of liberal arts and professional training in business, nursing, and engineering; 500 students attending the century-old School of Law; and 500 others pursuing graduate degrees .

49 Projects and Opportunities Chroniclers may single out the past two decades as the start of another epoch, when Valparaiso faculty and students began venturing overseas on a scale like never before, especially to Asia. The Chinese government recently chose Valparaiso University as a home for one of the Confucius Institutes that promote and share Chinese language and culture with the world. Valparaiso, in a town of 31,000 near Chicago, is the only private, faith-based institution in the United States with a Confucius Institute. The others are located on the flagship campuses of major public universities or in major cities. “We wouldn’t have gotten to first base without phenomenal support from our Chinese friends in Retiring President Alan F. Harre Hangzhou. They went to bat for us,” said outgo- ing President Alan F. Harre. The Chinese and Japanese Studies program also Early in Harre’s presidency, Valparaiso forged arranges summer internships in China for Valpo unusually strong ties with Hangzhou University undergraduates and graduate students, and the (which later became part of Zhejiang University) College of Business Administration conducts and Zhejiang University of Technology in short summer trips to China for M.B.A. students. Hangzhou, the former dynastic capital. Over two The new graduate programs of International 50 decades Valpo has hosted more than 80 Chinese Commerce and Policy, English Studies and Com- scholars, and sends Valpo students with a munication, and Information Technology are professor for a fall semester of study with other continuing to help boost Valparaiso’s interna- Cinternational students at Zhejiang University. tional enrollments, which rose to 244 in 2008. A grant from the Freeman Foundation has en- A U.S. Department of Education grant helped abled dozens of Valpo faculty members to learn Valpo launch annual summer advanced Chinese first-hand about the dizzying changes China programs in China and offer a master of arts is experiencing and to develop courses across in Chinese Studies. By spending two summers many disciplines on campus. Top students in the in classes in Hangzhou and taking additional Chinese and Japanese Studies program do field coursework in Indiana, even law students can research on a 10-day trip to Asia over spring earn the M.A. break, then return to write a 25-page report as the capstone of the seminar. The students Valparaiso’s vibrant music program has added pay just $600—the program absorbs the rest of traditional Chinese music to its repertoire. Dennis the costs. Friesen-Carper, the Redell Professor of Music and

LEFT TO RIGHT: Hugh McGuigan, director of International Studies (retired), participated in the first Indiana state delegation to Hangzhou, China. Zhimin Lin, chair of the Chinese and Japanese Studies program and director of the Valparaiso University China Center, directed Valparaiso’s Hangzhou Study Center in 1994 and 1996. Robert Orr established a sister state relationship relationship state sister a established Orr Robert partner institutionsinChina.Then-IndianaGov. of Valparaiso’s choice to serendipity was There direct thenew ConfuciusInstitute. to tapped was China, in orchestra provincial a for master concert former Meng, Jianyun colleague, spectators andwas televised nationally. Another efforts inSichuanProvince attracted 15,000 A benefitconcertinsupportofearthquake relief called Windianaonatwo-week tourofChina. band Indiana northern a led recently bands, and education music of Doebler,director Scott Jeffrey colleague, One 2008. February in Institute fucius performed attheopeningofValparaiso’s Con- Ritual Music”basedonanancientmelodywas “Confucian of arrangement His Hangzhou. in Center Study VU the directing spent he semester 2005 fall the during Symphony University jiang Orchestra, was resident conductorfortheZhe- Symphony Valparaiso University the of director worldwide network thatpraysforpeace. Chapel of the Resurrection, with 98-foot high stained glass windows, is part of a “…it was thepassionofindividualfaculty, “…it not presidentialdirectives,thatdrove things forward.” who now chairs the Chinese and Japanese Studies Hangzhou StudyCenterin1994and1996.Lin, came on board in 1990 and directed Valparaiso’s Studies program. Political scientist Zhimin Lin pushed forcreation ofthe ChineseandJapanese East AsianhistorianKeith Schoppasuccessfully presidential directives, thatdrove thingsforward. Still, itwas thepassionof individualfaculty, not universities inChina. And now there are partnerships withsixmore “things justbegantomultiply,” recalled Harre. professors were traveling theotherway, and heading regularly toIndiana,Valpo studentsand were faculty Chinese Soon himself. for Hangzhou the new president, togoseetheuniversities in in June1988andafterward urged AlanHarre, delegation state first that on went Studies, tional tion. HughMcGuigan,then-director ofInterna- was invitedtoparticipateinthefirst statedelega- Valparaiso and Province, Zhejiang with 1987 in

PROFILES OF SUCCESS AT COLLEGES + UNIVERSITIES 51 Valparaiso University LEFT TO RIGHT: Mel Piehl, dean of Christ College, the honors college, is a professor of Humanities and Valparaiso alumnus. Randa Duvick, associate professor and chair of the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, chairs the International Affairs Committee.

program and directs the Valparaiso University China our school and our location. I think a lot of it is Center, said, “We were one of the first to really start due to the quality of our services to the students, in China. We wanted to make it an integral part of who really appreciate that family atmosphere, our program and more than just trips.” that personal touch. We can do recruiting trips, but students are the ones who spread the word. Word of mouth is golden.” Long Ties to Cambridge and Reutlingen When the Valparaiso study centers in Cambridge, Lutheran Connections England, and Reutlingen, Germany, celebrated For many years Valparaiso’s primary windows on their 40th anniversaries in 2007, they calculated the world came through its Lutheran connections, that more than 2,800 Valpo students had studied drawing faculty and students from afar to Indiana there over the years. A third Valpo study center and producing graduates who headed off to do 52 in Puebla, Mexico, marked its silver anniversary church work overseas. The theology department that same year. had an international cast through Lutheran ties to Germany. One professor was married to a niece “We’ve come a long way,” said Harre, an ordained of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the Lutheran pastor and Lutheran pastor who was, like Kretzmann, a for- theologian hanged by the Nazis for his part in the midable builder. The showcase Christopher Center Resistance. The Chapel of the Resurrection, opened for Library and Information Resources opened in in 1959, prominently displays a “Cross of Nails” 2004 at a cost of $33 million, and a new $74 mil- from England’s Coventry Cathedral and is part of lion four-times-larger student union opens in 2009. a worldwide network that prays for peace. When In addition to a dining room, bookstore, 1,000-seat the Luftwaffe leveled the medieval cathedral in banquet hall, and space for more than 100 student 1940, Coventry’s pastor formed a makeshift cross organizations, it will have a suite for international from charred nails and wrote “Father forgive” on and multicultural programs along what is certain the walls of the ruined sanctuary. After the war to become one of the most heavily trafficked cor- the cathedral made crosses of nails for bombed ridors on campus. The new union will bear Harre’s churches in Dresden and other German cities. name. Mark A. Heckler, Valparaiso’s 18th president and Harre’s successor, has ties of his own to The “real push for international programs” began China. The former provost and vice chancellor in the past 20 years, said Humanities Professor of the University of Colorado-Denver once ran Mel Piehl, dean of Christ College, the honors that institution’s dual-degree program with China college. “The language departments made a Agricultural University in Beijing. quantum leap. The introduction of Chinese and Japanese served as a wider signal that we were McGuigan, who retired this past summer after reaching out beyond the cozy and comfortable.” leading Valpo’s international efforts since 1986, Valparaiso draws students from 40 states, with calls the growth of international programs over the largest contingent from Indiana and surround- this period “quite remarkable given the size of ing Midwest states. Piehl, who was in the class Wiehe, andJohnNevergall. Education abroad veterans (left to right) Matt Cavin, Beverly we trytoconvincethem,” hesaid. ity. It’s aquestionofdetermination.That’s what not aquestionofskills. It’s notaquestionofabil- University andtheUniversity ofWashington. “It’s the UnitedStatesforgraduate studiesatPrinceton in ChineseashedidEnglishbefore comingto Valparaiso studentsthatthey canachieve fluency language. ZhiminLin,anative ofShanghai,tells must already have mastered two years ofthe knowledge ofMandarin,the summerstudents study forasemesterinHangzhouwithnoprior across theUnitedStates. WhileValpo studentscan program inHangzhouthatdraws studentsfrom Hays grant foransummerintensive language The university recently received itsthird Fulbright- New GuineatoLutheran missionaries. Papua, in born was Council, Security National Mary Burce Warlick, thetopRussia expert onthe they canimpacttheworld,” headded.Alumna which waysin of thinking students bright very of lot a get Wehere. to around tend words buzz are service “Vocation and changed. not have however, things, Some era. his of students the tion, greater ambitions, widerworld views” than of 1968,said“they have muchgreater sophistica- Affairs Committee cation.” Valparaiso’s traditional two-week spring spring two-week Valparaiso’s traditional cation.” nursing, pre-med, international service, andedu- and engineering engaged that’s Rica Costa and Nicaragua in project learning Weservice a have (volunteering) inAfricaandCentral America. Borders Without We’ve Engineers got China. all not “It’s Kilpinen. said campus, on programs or no was activity international that realization growing The reorganization was precipitated by a Affairs. Student Law, and of School Studies, Graduate as well as College Christ and Nursing, Engineering, Administration, Business Sciences, and Arts from eachofthefive undergraduate colleges— The revitalized committeenow includesfaculty representation. broader be” to needed there that ing) somany different partsoftheuniversity were somany initiatives internationally(involv- there that clear become had it But 1960s. the since forever,probably committee affairs national advisory panel,said,“There hadbeenaninter- the chairs who Literatures and Languages Foreign of professor associate an Duvick, Randa Kilpinen. said committee,” sciences and arts an basically was it time, long long, “Fora colleges. Valparaiso’s other from representation wider sure Committee offacultyandadministrators toen- Affairs International the reorganized it when took animportantstepinthatdirection in2007 take stockofwhatwe’re doing,”heobserved. It to sense makes it where now point “We’re a at activities growth tookplaceonanadhocbasis. international university’s the of much said ences, Jon Kilpinen,deanoftheCollegeArtsandSci- A BroaderInternational as abusinessexecutive. day some China to return to expects who 2007-08 in president body student the Cavin, said me,” for jump big a was “That University. Zhejiang at semester full a spend to Chinese enough mastered quickly and economics and business led in2005. Heswitchedmajors tointernational Lin that trip study summer five-week a on China visited first who Roanoke,Virginia, of Cavin, Matt was determination that showed who One longer confined to a few departments departments few a to confined longer

PROFILES OF SUCCESS AT COLLEGES + UNIVERSITIES 53 Valparaiso University break allows professors and students to travel a full year in Germany, with one semester in farther afield than a shorter break. “It’s not quite Reutlingen followed by a salaried six-month co- a mini-session, but it’s long enough that you can op placement at a German company or research do something substantial,” he added. laboratory. Students pay greatly reduced tuition during that final semester. The challenging Forty faculty and staff and four students traveled program produced its first three graduates in 2007 to India in March on a faculty development and added three more in 2008. “We’re a fairly trip led by Associate Provost Renu Juneja and small College of Engineering. If we could get five Moninder “Holly” Singh, director of International students a year to do VIEP-German, we’d feel Students and Scholars. It was modeled after the very successful,” said Eric Johnson, director of Freeman Foundation-funded faculty development VIEP and an associate professor of electrical and trips to China. The faculty prepared for the trip computer engineering. Valparaiso is expanding with monthly seminars and extensive readings the VIEP model to France after Duvick recently that started in the fall. They met with Indian edu- finalized articulation agreements with a French cators, alumni, parents, and prospective students. engineering school as well as a business institu- Provost Roy Austensen, who made the journey, tion, allowing for two VIEP-French students in said trips like this “pay off on several different fall 2009. Johnson spent spring break in China, levels. We were making connections with people exploring the feasibility for a VIEP there. in India. I’ve seen this happen with the China trips. You build into your own institution a cohort When Thomas Boyt, a marketing expert with of people who have a significant knowledge of a degree in veterinary medicine, became dean that country and that culture.” of the College of Business Administration in 2004, he quickly heard from some of the first The International Affairs Committee is consider- students enrolled in a new M.B.A. program that ing “to what extent it makes sense to offer more “the international focus wasn’t what it should 54 short-term abroad experiences,” said Duvick, be. We took a hard look and agreed with them.” a professor of French. “We all know there are They placed greater emphasis in the curriculum pros and cons. The pros are that you get some on international business, and Zhenhu Jin, a students to go who otherwise perhaps can’t fit Shanghai-born finance professor on the faculty, it into their schedule or who have not found led education tours and arranged summer intern- financial ways to (afford) a semester. The con is ships in China for both M.B.A. students and that it has to be more than just a glorified tour. It undergraduate business majors. Now as many has to have some academic meat.” as 20 M.B.A. students head off to China each summer. “For some of our Indiana-born students, The Valparaiso International Engineering Program it is a life-changing experience,” said Boyt. “They (VIEP) produces graduates with both a bachelor see business in a different way. And because of of science degree in engineering and a major or Zhenhu Jin, we get in to see everything from minor in German. Taking five years instead of the big American and Chinese firms to the little four, VIEP requires engineering majors to spend mom-and-pop businesses.”

LEFT TO RIGHT: Renu Juneja, associate provost and professor of English, was co-leader on a March 2008 faculty development trip to India. Roy Austensen, provost and vice president of Academic Affairs, participated in that March 2008 faculty development trip to India. Nelly van Doorn-Harder, associate professor of theology and an authority on Islam, is a native of the Netherlands. it was also approved.” Now it is enshrined in in enshrined is it Now approved.” also was it where Senate Faculty the to went it there, passed it Once committee. university-wide a is which Committee, Policy Educational the to presented be to it approved who provost the to it submitted then I easily. very passed it where vote a for faculty Administration Business of College the to went it there, “From Committee. Curriculum unanimously endorsed change tothecollege’s just critical,”saidBoyt, who first proposed the it’s think I but that, do to not pressures of lots were “There classes). language require not do nursing and (Education majors science and arts as requirement language eight-credit same the for the320 businessmajors. They now fulfill requirement language a institute to faculty the convincing by strikingly more even curriculum Boyt alsohasinternationalized thebusiness Language forBusinessMajors suggestion ofalanguagerequirement. Thomas Boyt, dean of the College of Business Administration, helped further internationalization of the business curriculum with “…as manyas20M.B.A. studentshead off to China each summer. ‘For some eachsummer.‘For off to China of ourIndiana-born students,itisa life-changing experience’…”life-changing in learningfrom herabouttheIslamicworld. Since Townspeople, too,have exhibited akeen interest classes. her for lists waiting has always she said Doorn-Harder lecturer, van popular Yogyakarta, Indonesia.Aprolific scholarand in University Wacana Christian Duta at Studies agency inCairo, Egypt,andlatertaughtIslamic refugee a directing career her began she national, Dutch A Islam. on authority an is faculty, the Harder, oneoftwo world religion specialistson Associate Professor ofTheology Nellyvan Doorn- up foracompetitive disadvantage.” them setting you’re or experience international let your sonordaughtergraduate withoutan “Don’t parents, tells constantly he said Boyt elective. an as certificate Spanish” “Business a offer to approval faculty won Boyt recently, More Valparaiso’s general educationrequirements.

PROFILES OF SUCCESS AT COLLEGES + UNIVERSITIES 55 Valparaiso University Undergraduate international students (left to right): Adam Rundh, Aalborg, Denmark; Polina Kogay, Almaty, Kazakhstan; and Bala Srinivasan, is U.S. born but grew up in Bangalore, India.

September 11, “I think I’ve spoken in every church he doesn’t make the NFL. The double-major in basement in Michiana,” she said, using the local international business and finance has a 3.93 portmanteau for the Indiana-Michigan border grade point average. region. “The Kiwanis, the Rotary, the women’s 56 clubs—everybody wanted to know about Islam. I The president of the Valparaiso International Stu- found that very humbling because Americans try dent Association, senior Bala Srinivasan, was born to understand even if they don’t understand at all. in the United States, but grew up in Bangalore, Most of these people have never traveled, have no India. Holly Singh met him on a recruiting trip, idea about the rest of the world—but they try.” took an application on the spot, and soon was able to offer Srinivasan an academic scholarship. Valparaiso is one of four U.S. campuses that Srinivasan, 23, originally was drawn to Valparaiso houses an INTERLINK Language Center where by engineering but wound up as a computer international students can take Intensive English science and business major. “Academically, it’s a before matriculating. Freshman Polina Kogay, great school. And they do a great job of getting 19, of Almaty, Kazakhstan, followed that route. people together and creating this kind of family- The Kazakh student won a national scholarship type atmosphere amongst international students back home that pays the entire cost of her studies, and American students. There’s a lot of exchange including flights back and forth. “I choose the ma- of culture. You never feel alone here,” he said. jor and the country and they pick the school. They picked Valpo,” said Kogay, an electrical engineer- Valparaiso offers an unusual major called Interna- ing major who arrived in Indiana in March 2007 tional Economics and Cultural Affairs (IECA) that and spent four months in INTERLINK classes. marries language study with economics, history, geography, and political science. It was born in Another international student, Adam Rundh, part from necessity in the early 1970s, when both 22, a native of Aalborg, Denmark, is a chiseled economics and the language faculty were worried 240-pound defensive end on the Crusaders’ about declining enrollments, according to Profes- football team. Rundh is the only international sor of Political Science Albert Trost. “We’ve never player on the gridiron squad, but several Val- had an international relations major. This took the paraiso basketball players are international. place of that and stimulated a lot of interest,” said Rundh can always fall back on his education if Trost, a 1963 alumnus who teaches courses on even offers an elective version for seniors. hit and its director, English Professor John Ruff, cism at the start, the Core has proved an enduring and otherevents outsideofclass. Despiteskepti- essays, forging friendships, and attending cultural important texts, writing personal narratives and professors in exploring life’s big questions, reading Loss and Death. Twenty students or fewer join with Age, Citizenship, Work and Vocation, Love, and features units on Creation and Birth, Coming of thematically around the human life cycle and “The HumanExperience,” theCore isorganized and international,” the syllabus explains. Subtitled international because the world is multicultural the world. “The reading list is multicultural and Valpo Core introduces freshmen to great writers of the honors college must take. The writing-intensive semester, 10-credit course that all freshmen outside of the Valpo Core, an intense, interdisciplinary, two- Trost was instrumental a decade ago in the creation The V economics andforeign language,” shesaid. “We were real pioneers inlinkingthestudyof enter otherserviceprofessions aftergraduation. of thesemajors likely willjointhePeace Corpsor who teachesSpanishandchairs IECA,saidsome Notre Dame. Debra Ames, anassociateprofessor for InternationalPeace StudiesattheUniversity of Lopez, aprofessor from theJoanB. Kroc Institute resolution role-playing scenarioledby George one afternooninMarch toprepare foraconflict IECA isflourishingwith 30 majors, whogathered Cambridge attheendoftheirfirst year. the week-long workshops fornew facultyheldin Study Centerfrom 1975to1977.Healsoco-leads international relations anddirected theCambridge workshops for new faculty held at the Cambridge Study Center alpo Core Moninder “Holly”Singh,directorofInternationalStudents Debra Ames, associate professor of Spanish, chairs the International EconomicsandCultural Affairsprogram. and Scholars, was co-leader on a March 2008 faculty Albert Trost, professor of Political Science, co-leads at theendoftheirfirstyear. development triptoIndia. LEFT TORIGHT:

country,” headded. to notonlynorthwest Indiana,buttotheentire blessing tremendous a as that see I context, larger that provide to try to helping country, the of heart the in this like place a take you “Andwhen so many years ago.” many, had we isolation the in function to able be to We’re going not sensitive. and responsive ally an obligationtohelpcitizens“becomemore glob- has university view,U.S. every his In president. retiring the said society,” and church to service for students our prepare to is statement, mission our to according task, primary “Our Harre. Alan That isthetypeofconversion thatgladdens explained Singh. life,” of meaning a finding to career a for looking just from changed interest “My McGuigan. Hugh national educationalongsidehisformeradviser, theology, thenmadeacareer working ininter- India, butlaterswitchedtoliberal studiesand arrived atValparaiso in1991 asafreshman from he when engineer an become to planned Singh policy. and commerce international in is degree master’s Her undergraduate. an as Reutlingen and Hangzhou in semesters spent and Affairs Cultural and Economic International and French in majored Maddox Chicago. from paraiso Abroad Programs. Maddox isreturning toVal- and JulieMaddox was nameddirector ofStudy director ofInternationalStudentsand Scholars, to director associate from promoted was Singh Programs. International of Office the of leadership share to backgrounds international deeply with alumni two named Valparaisorecently programs, abroad education its and enrollments international both in growth Towith pace keep

PROFILES OF SUCCESS AT COLLEGES + UNIVERSITIES 57 Valparaiso University Challenges and Lessons from Valparaiso University

uu AD-HOC INITIATIVES. Valparaiso has uu CORE CURRICULUM. The Valpo Core, a operated study abroad centers in England and two-semester, 10-credit course exposes first-year Germany for four decades and forged a strong students to great literature from Asia and Africa relationship with Chinese universities over 20 as well as the Western canon. The honors college years that has opened other doors in China. But its also incorporates classic Asian texts into its cur international initiatives sprang up in isolation with riculum. The Core extends learning and discussion no coordinated strategy. Japanese studies, which outside the classroom with a required “fifth” were supposed to move forward simultaneously hour of participation in cultural and other campus with China, struggled. “It’s quite an impressive ar activities. “There’s more partnership here between ray,” said Dean of Arts and Sciences Jon Kilpinen, the curricular and the co-curricular in terms of but it is time “to consolidate what we’ve done and international emphasis,” said Vice President for coordinate it better.” Student Affairs Bonnie Hunter. International wings in the dorms, a Global Leaders Community, and uu FACULTY DEVELOPMENT. Faculty the distinctive, Bauhaus-style Kade-Duesenberg receive strong encouragement to internationalize German House and Cultural Center—a residence their research and courses. Aided by a $1.8 and learning space—enhance the campus mix. million Freeman Foundation grant, Valparaiso has organized three faculty study tours to China; three uu WIDER TENT. Valparaiso mixes professional dozen faculty toured India last spring with the training (engineering, business, nursing) with the provost and associate provost. New faculty take arts and sciences. Internationalization tradition an academic retreat to Cambridge, England, at the ally was the province of the humanities, but end of their first year. The tradition of a two-week business and engineering have stepped up their spring break allows both faculty and students to international activities. The College of Business 58 venture farther than counterparts can with just Administration in 2007 instituted the same language seven days off. requirement that liberal arts students have (8 u u u u sity, whichhad145internationalstudentsin2007, Valparaiso’s newinternationalstudents.Theuniver The programhasprovided30to40percentof in thedormsandminglewithValparaiso students. their collegeeducation.INTERLINKstudentslive students whoneedintensiveEnglishbeforestarting an INTERLINKLanguageCenterforinternational students gooninternshipsinChina. war andpoverty. InternationalbusinessandM.B.A. offering asummercourseinChileandArgentinaon law inCambridgeeachsummerandrecentlybegan Colleges. TheSchoolofLawteachescomparative Consortium oftheAssociatedNewAmerican selected opportunitiesthroughtheStudyAbroad eleven otherstudyabroadopportunitiesandoffers Germany, China,andMexico,Valparaiso sponsors to operatingitsownstudycentersinEngland, to studyabroadposesachallenge.Inaddition PIPELINE. STUDY ABROAD. sciences. colleges arerepresentedinadditiontotheartsand tee wasrecentlyrestructuredtoensurethatallfive credits). Afaculty-ledInternationalAffairsCommit Valparaiso since1992hashosted Attracting more students Attractingmorestudents u u u u International StudentsandScholarsHollySingh. look atnewareasforexpansion,”saidDirectorof saw thatnumberjumpto244in2008.“We needto Africa) alsohasaLutherantie. program inWindhoek,Namibia(onceGermanWest and CostaRica.Achallengingeducationabroad students onmedicalservicetripstoNicaragua Kenyan villages,andtheCollegeofNursingsends of EngineersWithoutBordersbuildswellsinpoor It offersanInternationalServicemajor. Achapter an increasinglydiverseandinterconnectedworld.” both churchandsociety”helpthem“flourishin mission ofpreparingstudents“toleadandservein international serviceisawayforValpo tofulfillits other constituencies,”saidProvostRoyAustensen. for ourstudents,faculty, alumni,fundersand internationalization ofValparaiso Universitymeans really don’t thinkwecommunicatewellwhatthe of theuniversity’s internationalactivities.“We they stillhavenotgottenthewordoutonextent Internationalization, Valparaiso’s seniorleadersfeel ning a2008SenatorPaulSimonAward forCampus SERVICE. GETTING THE WORD OUT. With strong Lutheran roots, With strongLutheranroots, Despitewin

PROFILES OF SUCCESS AT COLLEGES + UNIVERSITIES 59 Valparaiso University SPOTLIGHT PROFILES

The selection jury for Internationalizing the Campus 2008 recognized three additional institutions for their outstanding accomplishments in specific areas of internationalization. Colorado State University is recognized for developing a com- prehensive strategic plan for internationalization, Miami Dade College is noted for its expansive, globally themed arts and literature programs, and Webster University is acknowledged for its extensive and fully integrated network of overseas campuses. University Executes a Strategic Plan with olorado a Global Thrust In an era of tight budgets and diminished state support for higher Ceducation, there is a surprising optimism in the air at Colorado State University, perched in Ftateort Collins in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains. The faculty pulled in almost $300 million in research grants in 2007, up 11 percent in a year and up by almost halfS since Larry Edward Penley became president in 2003 . CSU conducts extensive biomedical and energy research and is known for expertise on atmospheric science and water issues, not just for the citizens of Colorado but of the world . Across South Asia and the Middle East, government ministers in charge of water programs often have Colorado State diplomas on their walls .

Colorado State University campus sculpture. 61 That optimism is also due to the way that Penley, a former professor of management and business dean at Arizona State University, has gone about seeking new resources and opportunities for Colorado’s land grant university, which enrolled 24,000 students and had 1,450 faculty in 2006-07. As The Denver Post reported recently in a front- page profile, Penley “is not often found at the state Capitol, beseeching legislators to provide more money.” Instead, he regularly turns up at business conferences on both coasts and at universities overseas, seeking to line up corporate investors and academic partners for Colorado State’s efforts to make and mine new discoveries in medicine, energy, and other fields. A clean, two-stroke engine developed by a Colorado State mechanical engineer has sharply cut pollution in three-wheeled Filipino taxis, and the technology is being used for clean cook stoves as well. The London-based Shell Foundation awarded a $25 million grant in 2007 to Envirofit International, a nonprofit spun off from Colorado State’s Engines and Energy Conversion Laboratory, to design and market 10 million clean stoves to poor families in India and other developing countries. President Larry Edward Penley 62

TInternationalization— research and scholarship, institutional partner- A Key Part of the Plan ships, the presence of more international scholars Penley, who earlier in his career taught in Mexico on campus, greater participation in study abroad and Venezuela, has made internationalization a programs, expanded area studies programs, and key part of Colorado State’s strategy to reinvent events with global themes.” itself for the twenty-first century. The university and its board of governors adopted in February The strategic plan also set ambitious goals for 2006 a 10-year plan, Setting the Standard for the increasing “research and discovery” and made 21st Century: Strategic Directions. One of its goals the case that addressing “global problems” must was to provide students “with distinctive interna- be part of the mission for a land grant institution tional experiences and broaden their exposure to in this new century. It explained, “For more than today’s global challenges.” It elaborated: “We must 100 years, America’s public research universities dramatically transform our international emphasis have served as the engines of research and to prepare students for life in an increasingly knowledge creation that addressed the great chal- interdependent world. This can be accomplished lenges facing society. It is almost impossible in through an enhanced curriculum, international today’s world to overstate the importance of the

“Colorado State is developing research ‘superclusters’ that seek to speed breakthroughs from the academic world into the global marketplace.” bring breakthrough ideastomarket. Whiletech- quickly to ways finding with officer—tasked ating scientist, butabusinessexecutive—a chiefoper- chief a by only not led is supercluster each of work The targets. two next its energy clean and research cancer made and supercluster, first the for diseases infectious on research chose It place. from theacademicworld intotheglobalmarket- “superclusters” thatseektospeedbreakthroughs research developing is State Colorado work, interdisciplinary promoting to addition In lives. everyday people’s into and market to solutions bring waysto but answers, new only not seeking the trueland-grant tradition, Colorado Stateis In environment. the of fragility the to disease “are universal tohumanity,” from poverty to The mostobstinateproblems, theplannoted, twenty-first centurylandgrant institution.” global problems withthecapacityofamodel addresses it as artistry creative and scholarship, research, in standard the set to strives and lence, research, Colorado Statevalues scholarlyexcel- to devoted budget its of one-third With world. the and nation, the Colorado, for life of quality the and prosperity economic to enterprise research from Harvard, James Cooney, as Colorado State’s State’s Colorado Cooney, as James Harvard, from The hiringofaprominent internationaleducator formats beyond semestercredit programs. other and trips, study courses, short offering of university globalevents.” Italsoenvisioned offerings, enhancedlibrary support,andsupport language enhanced hires, faculty include needs expanding numberofdestinations. grams withcomplementary programs abroad and by studentswillrequire connectingcampuspro- participation “Greater said. it funding,” base and recruiting international strong require will dents experience. “New targets forinternationalstu- learning international 2015 by an have students all of quarter a that so opportunities abroad study 1,1002010 by to expanding one-third and by campus on students international of number internationalization, includingboostingthe further for benchmarks out laid plan strategic The its on capitalize to businesses for-profit created also State Colorado on. going the market potentialwhiletheresearch isstill weighs approach supercluster the universities, research at ubiquitous are offices transfer nology International studentsatthePresident’s Welcome Reception.

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spotlight PROFILES OF SUCCESS AT COLLEGES + UNIVERSITIES 63 Colorado state University LEFT TO RIGHT: James Cooney, associate provost and director of the Office of International Programs. Tony Frank, senior vice president and provost.

associate provost for International Programs, also State could carve a distinctive international served notice of the university’s plans to raise its niche. “Every major research university in the international profile and activities. At Harvard, U.S. claims to be ‘internationalizing’ its campus, Cooney was executive director of the Weather- but few universities have a coherent approach head Center for International Affairs and served to what this will involve,” the Cooney report as dean of international programs at the John said. It called for a more systematic approach to F. Kennedy School of Government. The political globalization and requested almost a half-million scientist also was the former chair of the Board dollars in new funding to make that happen. of American Field Service Intercultural Programs, a former Fulbright scholar, and deputy director “In the twenty-first century,” it said, “land-grant of the Aspen Institute Berlin. Cooney went to universities operate in a global context, and Austria as an AFS exchange student while attend- they must evolve to serve as stewards for the ing high school in Indianapolis and after college well-being of the world’s population, reach out 64 taught English in Japan before getting his Ph.D. to all sectors of society at home and abroad, and from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. make education an international experience.” It called for developing close partnerships with In Colorado State he found an institution that approximately 20 key universities, providing not only shared his passion for international $80,000 in faculty development grants, and education, but was willing to put significant new $50,000 for education abroad scholarships. It also resources behind the rhetoric. The strategic plan envisioned establishing a steering committee for was all but complete when he arrived in January the internationalization plan composed of deans 2006. “The president said, ‘Jim, I want you to and vice provosts, and developing international look at the final draft, and you’re one of the few studies into a formal major (225 students already who can still make changes,’” said Cooney. He concentrate in that area). made some additions, but found that Penley had already made certain that the final draft spoke The ambitious internationalization plan further to the importance of global issues in Colorado galvanized faculty and senior administrators State’s work. “Then, as soon as the strategic already excited about the possibilities in the plan was adopted, he said to me, ‘In the next six strategic plan. Lou Swanson, vice provost for months I’d like to see a coherent internationaliza- Outreach and Strategic Partnerships, said, “Jim tion plan from you.’” has created great excitement with his internationalization plan. He’s got a terrific vision. He’s the right guy at the right time for our reengagement A Distinctive International Niche in international affairs.” That led Cooney and his staff—the office staff increased from 20 to 26 since his arrival and the President Penley and Provost Tony Frank added international affairs budget jumped 50 percent— $220,000 to the base budget of the Office for to produce a 21-page CSU internationalization International Affairs (“that means you get to plan in October 2006 that mapped how Colorado keep it,” said Cooney) and promised additional Autónoma deYucatán inMexico, University of Universidad University, Agricultural China India, in Center Research Advanced Nehru the as tions already hasforged partnerships withsuchinstitu- CSU levels. previous of that times several 250, to up shot has participating students of number The projects. 30 to year past the in tripled nearly field experiences—faculty-led, short-termtrips— International fast. moving are things Already buildings onColorado State’s historicOval. office inLaurel Hall,oneofthenineteenthcentury to utilizingourresearch,” saidCooney from his applied research (and)entrepreneurial approaches State onthemapasauniversity attheforefront of “What thepresident istryingtodoputColorado and P K affairs, may becomepartofacapitalcampaign. international of school possible a including list, wish the on items other Some 2009. in loquium support foracampus-wideinternationalcol- ey I nstitutional artnerships Students meettheColoradoStateUniversitymascot“CamRam”atNewInternationalStudentOrientation. R elationships have facultymembers whosay, “Iwant to campus suffers from this,” saidCooney. “You only. “Every paper on exist that partnerships the beyond go to intended are relationships These continue.” to likely is partnership this institution, different a to moves or retires professor certain a if even and levels, different several at working are we say really can we where connections find to trying we’re But three. to restricted nothing there’s that; in chemicalengineering.Itcanbuildbeyond faculty some then and there, from launched get expeditions the of most since research, Antarctic in faculty some engineering, biomedical in working faculty some be will there Zealand, New are working withtheUniversity ofCanterburyin we if So collaboration. of types ongoing three least at have we where institution an represent should partner “A institutional key explained. Cooney thoughtfully,” these “Wedeveloping are others. exploring is and Russia, in University Canterbury inNew Zealand,andSaratov State

spotlight PROFILES OF SUCCESS AT COLLEGES + UNIVERSITIES 65 Colorado state University William Farland, vice president for research.

conclude an international memorandum apply them globally. And it’s a two-way process. of understanding with a researcher in We learn from them as well. We’re at the point in Taiwan. I haven’t met him, but I had a most of the world where the available fresh water good telephone conversation with him.’ resources have been developed. Now, rather than Our job isn’t to say no, but we’re trying to set looking for new resources, we’re trying to figure criteria for why some of the closer partners are out how to share existing ones.” more instrumental than others.” Cooney also con- venes regular gatherings of faculty from widely Internationalization at Colorado State University varied fields to discuss their international projects involves the integration of traditional goals of an and come up with ideas for novel collaborations, international office with the research imperatives whether in the Netherlands or Saudi Arabia. of a twenty-first century land-grant university. It has quickly become a priority both for the vice president for research and among faculty from Global View of Land– a range of disciplines. “Stay tuned for the next Grant Mission phase of our plan. We are just getting started,” William Farland, vice president for research, ar- said Vice Provost Cooney. rived in Fort Collins in fall 2006 from a scientific

66 career at the U.S. Environmental Protection Colorado State University water poster. Agency, where he was the highest ranking career scientist and worked on numerous international health and environmental projects. When inter- viewing for the job, he recalls that he stressed “the importance of science for a purpose and the application of science for problem-solving. Now I feel like I was preaching to the choir because this place values these activities so highly.”

Reagan Waskom, director of the Colorado Water Institute, and his research team are thinking more and more globally these days. “The Colorado Water Institute is not just helping farmers grow beets in Colorado. We have a global view of what a land grant mission looks like,” he said.

“Colorado State is known worldwide for the application of water management in a stressed environment. In Colorado, we’re a storm or two away from drought every year. What we learn about water stress—whether it be irrigation management or urban water supply management or environmental services—is translatable to the other water-stressed environments of the world,” said Waskom. “We take Colorado issues and can College A Passion for the Arts Brings the Wiamiorld to Miami Dade–and to miami When U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings delivered the commencement speech at Miami Dade College in May 2008, she hailed Mthe famous community collegeade as “the largest and most diverse college in the nation—and probably in the world.” Miami Dade enrolled more than 58,000 students in fall 2007 and 32,000D other noncredit students . It awards more associate degrees than any other U .S . college and claims the largest enrollment of Hispanics and black students . It changed its name from Miami Dade Community College to Miami Dade College in 2003 when it began offering bachelor of education degrees .

Miami Dade College Wolfson Campus 67 Despite the switch, it remains primarily a community college. In 2007 it awarded 45 of those bachelor’s degrees—and 6,500 associate degrees. Spellings, who also received an honorary degree (as both President George W. Bush and First Lady Laura Bush had before her), said in her address, “Everywhere I go, across our nation, and around the world, I meet people who are trying to achieve what this college has done and is doing. Last summer, your president Eduardo Padrón joined me on a delegation of university presidents to Latin America. We held up Miami Dade College as a model of how to help more people access a college education.” Padrón is a Miami Dade alumnus who emigrated from Cuba at the age of 15 in 1961, the year after Dade County Junior College opened on a World War II U.S. Naval air station north of Miami in quarters so modest that it earned the nickname “Chicken Coop College.” It was Florida’s first integrated community college and quickly grew to become the largest institution of higher education in the state. President Eduardo Padrón

68 Globally Themed Arts and Literature filmmakers of Spain and Latin America. It is the DMiami Dade says its mission “is to provide only major film festival affiliated with an institute accessible, affordable, high quality education of higher education. by keeping the learner’s needs at the center of decision-making and working in partnership with Vivian Donnell Rodriguez, a veteran Miami arts its dynamic, multicultural community.” It backs administrator who became Miami Dade’s vice up those words with an array of activities that provost for Cultural Affairs in 2007, said, “It is have both internationalized the curriculum and second nature to all of us to create programs that enriched the cultural life of perhaps the most are diverse, because that’s what our community international city in the United States. Padrón is. They reflect the people that live here. These are has personally played a large part in helping our audiences. It’s a very natural result. You see it the institution fulfill this mission. He has been when you walk through the halls of our campuses Miami Dade’s president since 1995 and before and see the interchanges and hear the languages. that led the downtown Wolfson campus for 15 This isn’t something that we have to go out of our years. At Wolfson, he played a pivotal role in the way to do. It has to happen this way.” birth of the Miami Book Fair International, which brings hundreds of authors and attracts several Both the book fair and the film festival comple- hundred thousand visitors during its eight-day ment what the college calls its “living arts run each November, culminating with a colorful curriculum” of globally themed arts and literature street fair on the Wolfson campus. More recently, programs, including master classes taught by Miami Dade became the principal sponsor of the visiting artists and opportunities for Miami Dade Miami International Film Festival—11 days of film students to dance, sing, and perform on tours premieres, lectures, and red-carpet events that at- that in the last year alone took them to the Do- tract film directors and stars from Hollywood and minican Republic, Italy, Taiwan, and other distant around the world, with a special emphasis on the stages. “We are very proud of our students, for Barcelona, Spain, and Buenos Aires, Argentina. Argentina. Aires, Buenos and Spain, Barcelona, in events” cultural “signature become had fairs book how firsthand seen having idea, the liked approached Padrón andasked forhishelp.He They Miami. to tours book on authors more send to publishers convince to way a as fair the ceived the country. Localbooksellers andlibrarians con- in fair book largest the into grown Bay,” has the by “Books called 1984 in fair street two-day a as began which Fair International, Book Miami The tions ofourstudentsandfaculty,” Padrón says. in ourrespect forthediverse originsandtradi- understanding. Ouracademicexcellence isrooted can beamodelforinternationalcooperation and they have demonstrated thathighereducation Film producerDannyGlover(left)andfilmcriticElvisMitchell(right)indiscussionattheGusmanCenterforPerformingArts. Vivian DonnellRodriguez,viceprovostforCulturalAffairs. Alina Interián, executive director of the college’s Florida Center fortheLiteraryArts. administrators, staff,andstudents—pitchingin. and 1,500 volunteers—mostly MiamiDadefaculty, nesses, andothersponsors absorbingmostcosts, lion, withlocalgovernments, foundations, busi- Today thebookfair’s annualbudgettops$1mil- said thepresident, aneconomist by training. this,” like something for waiting been had People word. written the by united all life, of walks all from people draws and everyone to open is fair us.’ by us, book ‘for was The event this but ists, of events andconventions geared towards tour- kinds all draws Miami community. our in nerve a touched immediately “It Wolfsoncampus. the on fair book the host and $75,000 up put to Miami hadnothinglike itatthetime. Heagreed LEFT TORIGHT:

spotlight PROFILES OF SUCCESS AT COLLEGES + UNIVERSITIES 69 Miami Dade College “Authors have traveled to the fair from Israel, Russia, Ireland, England, Italy, Canada, Nigeria, Congo, and more.” Alina Interián, executive director of the college’s street fair at the end of the week-long celebration, Florida Center for the Literary Arts and longtime all the author lectures are free. A parallel program book fair impresario, said, “We pride ourselves in Spanish draws Ibero-American authors and po- in having created a very successful formula that ets from Latin America and Spain as well as Brazil, has been emulated by a number of communities Portugal, and the Caribbean. “But the fair is hardly around the United States.” Miami Dade runs ads limited to these countries. Authors have traveled to for the event in Publisher’s Weekly and The New the fair from Israel, Russia, Ireland, England, Italy, York Times Book Review. The literary lions who Canada, Nigeria, Congo, and more,” said Padrón. have read and lectured at Miami Dade during the fair include 11 Nobel Laureates (from Saul Miami Dade stepped in to sponsor the glittering Bellow to Toni Morrison to Octavio Paz to Derek Miami International Film Festival (MIFF) in 2004 Walcott) and more than 50 Pulitzer Prize winners when Florida International University bowed (from John Updike to Rita Dove to Miami’s own out. The budget for the Miami International Film humorist, Dave Barry). While there is a modest Festival tops $2 million, but the college has a admission charge ($5) to the colorful, three-day gold-plated list of partners, American Airlines, the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs, and the Miami Herald among them. The 70 John S. and James L. Knight Foundation also has put up three $25,000 prizes for the best films. Originally, the film festival was confined to the former Olympia Theater, a silent movie palace and vaudeville theater built in 1926 to look like a Moorish castle. Maurice Gusman, a business magnate and philanthropist, saved the theater from demolition and donated it to the city in 1975. It was restored and placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984 and has undergone further restorations in recent years as the Gusman Center for the Performing Arts. But MIFF has outgrown the Gusman. With 166 films from 54 countries, including 10 world premieres, movies were screened at seven venues around greater Miami and Miami Beach at the 10-day festival in March 2008. More than 75,000 people attended the screenings, talks, and related events in 2008. The film festival reflects the college’s commitment “to arts, to culture, and to the community,” said Vivian Donnell Rodriguez, the college’s vice provost for Cultural Affairs. “Obviously our mission is one of education, but we do that in a variety of ways, not only through classes and continuing education, but through all International Film Festival Awards Party. these cultural programs as well.” other Miami residents attendthemore than 100 Each year more than12,000 studentsand the center’s internationalinitiatives. from theFord Foundation provided seedmoney for dency andeducationcoordinator. Anearlygrant their work, saidJennylin Duany, thecenter’s resi- create, perform,and teachmasterclassesabout to Miamiforresidencies duringwhichthey would works andsupportinternationalartistswhocome was launchedsixyears latertocommissionnew Center forCultural Collaborations International to thecollege’s Cultural Affairs Department.The flective ofourmulti-ethniccommunity,” according America andtheCaribbeanwork thatisre- ing artbeingcreated today withafocusonLatin to campus“thenewest, most-challengingperform- Wolfson. Itbegan in1990withtheaimofbringing was aplay onthenameofdowntown campus, Cultura delLobo,meaning Culture oftheWolf, Center forCultural Collaborations International. the Cultura delLoboPerformance Seriesandthe curriculum through two complementary initiatives: Miami Dadealsoimbuesinternationalartsintothe Extending BeyondtheCampus regularly perform onotherinternational stages as in December2006. MiamiDadeCollegestudents Teatro inSantoDomingo,DominicanRepublic, Literary Arts. Itsentstudents toperformatCasa in 2006 becamepartoftheFloridaCenterfor and promote Hispanicculture through theater, Prometeo, foundedintheearly1970s topreserve College studentsandstaffpay only$5.Teatro of theseconcertsandperformances, MiamiDade general publicpays upto$52foraseatatsome the Arts, andinlocalpublicschools. Whilethe at MiamiDadeCollege, itsNew World Schoolof County andheld150 masterclasses, taughtboth In all,40artistsperformedatvenues across Dade that paidhomagetotheworld oftheMiddleEast. called “D’Orient”choreographed by ThierrySmits Thor, making itsAmericandebutwithashow and adancetroupe from Belgium,Compagnie ing withSenegal’s all-male CompagnieJant-Bi, Bush Women (from Brooklyn, New York) perform- were theSpanishHarlemOrchestra, theUrban regions. Lastseason,amongthefeatured artists richly represented, butsoare othercultures and brings in.LatinandCaribbeanartsculture are dancers, actors, andothers artiststhatthecollege performances andmasterclassesputonby the Cultura DelLoboPerformanceSeries.

spotlight PROFILES OF SUCCESS AT COLLEGES + UNIVERSITIES 71 Miami Dade College well. In summer 2007 the Hard Bob Jazz Ensemble authors hold book signings, but you can also find played at the Umbria Jazz Festival in Italy, while them wandering around, enjoying the festival dancers from the New World School of the Arts themselves. The whole campus and even the city performed in Kaohsiung, Taiwan. becomes a classroom that week.”

In recent years the college has been sending repre- The president added, “Most of our students are the sentatives of the Miami International Film Festival working poor, and they may not be aware of the each summer to mount a four-day, abbreviated reputations of many of the authors coming to the version of the festival in Latin America, drawing fair. But when an author visits their class, or when local filmmakers, professors, and students to the they attend a reading, their motivation skyrockets. screenings and events. This year “MIFF Abroad,” Many students get involved as volunteers. Then as it is called, went to Mexico, and past programs there is the street fair, which is free for students, have been held in Chile and Colombia. where they can bring their families and enjoy a relaxing day around the college. They get the sense that education is truly a lifelong process.” Book Fair-cum-Literary Festival The 25th Miami Book Fair International, sched- Does Padrón see the literary festival as integral to uled for the second week of November 2008, will Miami Dade’s educational mission or more as part be held on the Wolfson campus just in advance of its civic duties? “Separating our civic and edu- of International Education Week. Padrón sees cational missions is a little difficult,” he replied. the book fair as “an invaluable opportunity for “We often talk about extending the classroom our students. Many of the authors arrive prior to beyond the campus. We believe in the open door their presentation and stay afterward to attend approach to education, and the book fair is an classes and interact with students in an intimate open invitation to everyone in the community to setting. The book fair provides the authors’ books appreciate reading and writing. The book fair fits 72 to the particular classes in advance, and the perfectly with our motto that ‘opportunity changes students prepare for their close encounter. The everything.’ We open the door to this opportunity.”

Hundreds of thousands of people attend Miami Book Fair International, held at the Wolfson Campus of Miami Dade College and began in 1984. University Webster University’s Wide Branches Extend Across Europe and Asia

In the race to ebster send more students abroad, some U.S. universities can point with pride to facilities they own in the great cities of WEurope, like georgetown’s villa on a hill above Florence or Notre Dame’s building on London’s Trafalgar Square, or to Temple Univer- sity’s campus in Tokyo. But none does it quite like Web- ster University, which runs branch campuses in Switzerland, Aus- tria, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Thailand, and China . “We truly have a distinctive international mission,” said Presi- dent Neil J . George .

Webster University Hall 73 Webster was the first U.S. university to win approval for an American M.B.A. program in China; and recently the Netherlands-Flemish Accredita- tion Agency extended accreditation to Webster’s International Business & Management Studies bachelor’s degree program in Leiden, which like the rest of Webster’s overseas branches already held U.S. accreditation. George, a political scientist and longtime top academic officer at their suburban St. Louis, Missouri, campus, said the network that Webster has constructed over the past 30 years is not yet complete, “We will be in the Middle East. We will be in Africa. We will be more prominently focused in Latin America.” Webster has a long history of taking on big challenges. It began as Loretto College, founded by an order of Roman Catholic nuns in 1915 as one of the first colleges for women west of the Mississippi. The name was changed to Webster College (the campus is in suburban Webster Grove) in 1924, and men were admitted in the early 1960s. A few years later the Sisters of Loreto passed control of the college to a lay board. But the mission of “meeting unmet needs” stayed the President Neil J. George same, George said. As Webster once provided for 74 young women in the 1920s flapper era a pathway Wto break into male-dominated professions, it siderable number of people were on short-term later found success in giving working adults assignments with the United Nations agencies, opportunities to earn graduate degrees by taking and there was no opportunity for a working adult classes at night. to study in English part-time,” said George. From Webster’s perspective, those international civil servants looked much like the military officers International Journey Begins and civilians flocking to the classes it was offer- The arc of Webster’s international journey starts ing across the United States. Some of those UN just across the Mississippi River at Scott Air Force and other international agency employees also Base in Illinois, where the university dispatched “wanted their sons and daughters to have the professors to teach evening classes to officers opportunity to have an American system of edu- eager to earn master’s degrees. It worked so well cation,” George added. That led Webster to offer that Webster to set up shop on other military undergraduate as well as graduate courses in bases across the United States. Today it offers Geneva, and to recruit from international schools courses at 30 military bases in a dozen states, as where English was the language of instruction. It well as at 21 other Webster centers in nine states won authorization from Geneva authorities and that cater to working adults. From the first classes accreditation by the Higher Learning Commission at Scott AFB until today, the emphasis in these of the North Central Association of Colleges and graduate programs has been on interdisciplinary, Schools (which would later accredit Webster’s individualized M.A. degrees. other campuses as well). And today Geneva remains the flagship of the university’s European The success of that venture outside the home operations, with more than 500 students enrolled campus gave Webster the idea of opening its first on a campus that celebrated its 30th anniver- international campus in 1978. The location it sary this fall. “This is a much more traditional chose was Geneva, Switzerland, where “a con- schedule than other pieces of the institution,” Robert Spencer, Geneva-based director of Webster’s European campuses.

said Robert Spencer, the Geneva-based director but instead they landed in Leiden in 1983, of Webster’s European campuses. “We have where the mayor and Leiden University, the morning and afternoon classes primarily for largest in Holland, wooed and welcomed undergrads, and evening classes primarily for the American-style business college. graduate students.” That campus, too, found many eager to take the classes that Webster offered. From there Webster set its sights on Vienna, Aus- Webster opened a London campus in 1986 to tria, where the UN was expanding its presence offer American business degrees to busy London and OPEC was gearing up operations. There were professionals through evening classes and also to special challenges because Austria then did not give Webster’s students another option for study recognize private higher education, but Webster abroad. Webster shares the facilities of Regent’s persevered and opened in Vienna in 1981. Today College in London’s Regent’s Park with four other that campus also enrolls 500 students pursuing schools. It launched an M.B.A. program in China bachelor’s degrees in business, international on the campus of Shanghai University of Finance relations, computer science and other disciplines, and Economics in 1996 and opened a large and master’s degrees as well. “Following Vienna, campus in Cha-Am, Thailand in 1999. we thought, ‘This is working great; there are real needs. It’s not unlike responding to regional and As Webster has grown—it enrolls more than W e b ster Un iversit y local needs in the states. Where’s another large 20,000 students, including 7,500 on the home English-speaking international community?’” campus in St. Louis, 9,500 across the United 75 recalled George. Their first instinct was to try States, and 3,000 at its international campuses—it their model at the Hague in the Netherlands, has encouraged students and faculty to travel and

Webster Geneva Campus U N IVERSITIES + PROFILES OF SUCCESS AT COLLEGES AT spotlight PROFILES OF SUCCESS Webster Geneva Students

76 avail themselves of the opportunities to study, hours and agreeing to complete an additional 30 teach, and absorb other cultures. While studying hours (including the six credits they earn during in England is far less of a culture shock for an eight-week term abroad). The World Traveler Americans than a semester in Thailand, George Program picks up coach airfare for more than 100 sees the London campus as an important first students each year at a cost to the university of step into the world for those students wary of $200,000. leaving home. “We thought we might begin to get a number of first generation, non-travel students “What we are trying to do is break down barriers to start in London, get their international legs, for student mobility, faculty mobility, and staff and then move on to places like Geneva and mobility throughout the network,” said Grant Thailand,” he said. Chapman, associate vice president for Academic Affairs and director of International Programs. “When a traditional university talks about study Increasing Mobility abroad, they’re usually talking about a U.S. To speed them on their way, the university’s student going abroad. With our mobility program, Webster World Traveler Program pays for the you could have a Russian student with a home roundtrip air ticket for students to make their first campus in Geneva studying abroad in Thailand. trip to another Webster international campus. They may never see the St. Louis campus, but that If they are enrolled in St. Louis, they can go is every bit as encouraged as study abroad for the to Europe, China, or Thailand. The mostly traditional U.S. student.” About 40 percent of the international students in Thailand, Geneva, and St. Louis undergraduates study abroad before they the other campuses can study in London, St. graduate, including 380 in 2006-07. That number Louis, or any other Webster outpost. To qualify, has grown almost fivefold in the past decade. undergraduates first must complete nine credit hours at their home campus. Graduate students With the exception of Webster’s offerings in get plane tickets, too, after first finishing 15 credit China, which draw primarily Chinese students, these overseas campus students are highly international; only one in five is a U.S. resident. Some 100 nations are represented in the Geneva student body, and 40 nations are represented on the faculty. More than 600 international students spent a semester on the St. Louis campus in 2007-08. Only a quarter of the 200 students at the Cha’am campus is Thai. Vietnam, Burma, India, and Nepal send contingents to the Thai campus, along with a number from Europe, the United States, and elsewhere. Webster is trying to attract more Thai students to the 60-acre campus in Cha’am, which is three hours south of Bangkok.

In China, Webster’s offerings are primarily intensive, English language M.B.A. courses offered on Webster Students in Japan weekends in Shanghai, Shenzhen, and Chengdu. The Chinese government recently decided to Webster professors themselves are frequently on open a Confucius Institute on Webster’s St. Louis the move. Half the full-time faculty have taught campus, with the university expanding a partner- overseas at least once. “When we recruit, we say ship with a Beijing university that specializes in they must be prepared to teach internationally,” Mandarin classes. said George. Webster also offers Faculty Mobility W e b ster Un iversit y Fellowships to encourage professors to teach at Rick Forestell, the director of the China program, an international site. The international campuses 77 said from his office in Shanghai, “From the very now offer undergraduate degrees in 17 fields, and first, we’ve had almost 100 percent Chinese locals 13 graduate degrees. “The majors we offer have attending our classes. Our M.B.A. program has the same learning outcomes throughout,” said had 1,100 graduates since 1997.” But in partner- Chapman. Electives vary and reflect the local and ship with Shanghai University of Economics and regional culture. Finance, and with the blessings of the Chinese U N IVERSITIES Ministry of Education, Webster is expanding of- The common outcomes and degrees mean that + ferings for undergraduates, including a semester- “a student can sign up for the next term, indicate long Chinese studies program. Typically, a third where they are going, take their coursework, of Webster’s courses in China are taught by its and go. You’re accepted. It’s one university. own faculty and the rest by adjuncts. Fortunately We suppress the significance of geography for no Webster classes were in session in Chengdu administrative (purposes) and emphasize it in May 2008 when a deadly earthquake struck for the pedagogical value and the international Sichuan Province. perspectives,” said George. Webster even aims PROFILES OF SUCCESS AT COLLEGES AT spotlight PROFILES OF SUCCESS

LEFT TO RIGHT: Grant Chapman, associate vice president for Academic Affairs and director of International Programs. Rick Forestell, the director of the China program. “We suppress the significance of geography for administrative (purposes) and emphasize it for the pedagogical value and the

for diversity in its onlineinternational offerings, “where our perspectives…”Webster is a private, not-for-profit institution. goal is to have the instructor from one culture, a “Our model is to make sure that these campuses small class of 15 students, and no more than two have long-term sustainability, both academically students representing the same culture, creating a and financially, university-wide,” said George, virtual international community,” he said. and in the aggregate, the international campuses cover their expenses, as do Webster’s extended U.S. classes and the home campus. Webster Financial Challenges and closed a program in Bermuda several years ago, Sustainability and Thailand “has been a challenge,” George Tuition varies, based on the local economy. acknowledged. But Webster University Thailand “Tuition in Geneva is higher than in Leiden “brings real significant contributions toward because the cost of living is higher,” said Spencer. helping us achieve our global education goals.” Students throughout the system pay their home Webster remains the only U.S.-accredited univer- campus tuition when they study abroad. Only sity in Southeast Asia. 78 recently has Webster begun to open its programs to other U.S. institutions as an option for their And what does the Webster leader say to U.S. students to study abroad, but Grant now expects colleagues who may be considering their first those affiliations to grow with their added hous- major foray into the international arena? “They ing capacity in Geneva and elsewhere. should pursue it, but you should enter it for the right motivation. If you have schools that are At sites without Webster dorms, students rent struggling or looking for a new vein of financial apartments or rooms in the surrounding com- support, that’s the wrong motivation. If they munity, or live in other institutions’ student are genuinely interested in promoting global housing. The university encourages students to perspectives for their students as part of their connect with the local culture and community degree, many different approaches can be used,” through service and research projects, including said George. They don’t necessarily have to stand participation in a community service day called alone, as Webster did in Geneva and elsewhere. “Webster Works Worldwide” held each fall “Starting from scratch was challenging then, since 1995. Chapman said students can earn an it’s even more challenging today,” he said. But International Distinction designation on diplomas “when you partner, make certain that you have by volunteering or undertaking an off-campus joint interests and total control over the academic research project. integrity of your degree program.”