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Intentional Internationalization

Intentional internationalization emphasizes the pursuit of intercultural and ethnic understanding, both at home and abroad. This desire for global engagement calls for an active exploration of events, institutions, peoples, problems, and issues within and beyond our nation’s borders in order to promote the peace, joy, and love of God and to help form culturally competent faculty and students. Together, the diversity and internationalization initiatives refer to deliberate, systematic, and related efforts to integrate an intercultural and international dimension into teaching, research, and service functions of the university. For example, every academic program will include an opportunity for a cross-cultural educational experience so that all graduates may demonstrate intercultural competence as defined by their discipline.

Vision in Action

American International Mentoring Program Faculty Opportunities/Development Global Learning Term International Center International Chapel

Center for Global Learning & Engagement Office of World Missions Operation Impact Program School of Business and Management: International Program

Please let us know how you have found the Academic Vision 2016 exemplified by emailing provost@apu.edu.

Five-Year Goals

Recommendations:

A. Recognition and valuing of intentional internationalization

1. Communicate an expectation that all students attain a specified level of global competence.
2. Validate global scholarship and the development of global competence as an intellectual and professional ideal.
3. Support an array of co-curricular activities that value diversity, foster interaction among multi-ethnic and multi-national populations, and promote a global mind-set.

B. Faculty and student scholarly development in global competence

1. Hire or develop more globally competent faculty within each school.
2. Develop the global education programs and support infrastructure necessary to enable all undergraduate students to study and serve in cross-cultural settings.

C. Funding

1. Establish an Internationalization Committee through the Faculty Senate to serve as a focal point for strategy development and to implement academic recommendations and significant funding for new projects.
2. Support the seeking of external grant support and funding to support research on social issues that cross national borders.

D. Assets and evaluation

1. Assess the extent to which programs/schools already foster the acquisition of an expected level of “global competence.”
2. Commission a self-study of existing programs and policies within the university.

Academic Vision 2016 Task Force: Intentional Internationalization

Chairs: Aja Tulleners-Lesh, Ph.D., dean, School of Nursing, facilitator
Rich Slimbach, Ph.D., professor of global studies

Rod Cathey, DMA, chair of undergraduate music
Sue Clark, director, American Language and Culture Institute
Susan Elliott, Ph.D., professor of nursing
Mary Grams, director, International Student Services
Paul Gray, Ed.D., dean of library services
Diane Guido, vice provost for undergraduate programs
Susan Ney, associate professor of art
Melanie Schwenk
Jim Theel, director for construction and operational planning
Enrique Zone, Ed.D., associate dean of graduate theology

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