This synchronous interactive course will address how virtual strategies
can enable international education to be more resilient, increase access
and create efficiencies by tapping existing faculty, program and
technological resources. After a tour of the horizon, we will develop
“virtual readiness” profiles of your campus, faculty and international
partnerships. We will explore virtual exchange and shared network
strategies among other approaches aligned with your campus and
curriculum. With your peers, you will create a roadmap to that
integrates new connectivity strategies into your chosen international
education focus area.
The growth and sustainability of international education depends today on adapting current approaches and creating viable paths to institutional and student success. We will tap the lessons of one nationally award-winning office that has transformed itself to make international education attainable for all who seek it.
This course is designed for international education professionals,
leaders, and future leaders needing tools and strategies for taking
their institution to a higher level of international engagement,
regardless of their starting point or institutional stature. The power
and impact of international education on students seems to enjoy
recognition as a universally-understood benefit in an era of rapid
globalization, yet it is also constrained by the hard truths of internal
barriers and external challenges. Through specific exercises, readings,
and projects in this rigorous module, participants will push themselves
and develop both professional skills and valuable deliverables to
implement in their own settings.
This course focuses on decision making in the international education environment. During the course we will examine financial as well as qualitative data that an international education leader would need for the decisions being considered including risks that need to be considered in each decision. We will examine international education scenarios and explore the type of data that would be needed to arrive to a decision. Some of the decisions international education leaders face relate to: international site operations and branch campuses, evaluation a program abroad continuation or elimination, special pricing and incentives for a partner institution, outsourcing of the services including using agents for international recruitment. In addition to financial and qualitative factors, the course will relate ethical issues to the decisions.
With increased scrutiny being placed on institutions of higher education and tougher approval processes for student immigration petitions, both the institution and the students they serve are at risk in the current environment. Mistakes can result in penalties to the institution up to and including decertification in SEVIS or fines and other penalties. Institutional policies that ultimately fail to comply with the regulations can get students deported and barred from reentering the U.S. for significant periods of time.
This course, Immigration Compliance, Policy Development and Risk Management, is designed to show you what both senior and front-line practitioners have to deal with when managing immigration compliance and advising international students.