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.
This course explores critical issues pertaining to higher education partnerships within an international context. Topics include methods for identifying and vetting international partners, cross-cultural negotiation, contract management, diplomatic protocol and more.
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.