Internationalization Task Force Final Report

Addenda: Implementation Plans 2005-2008: Internationalizing the Leadership

I. Internationalization of Leadership 2005-2006

1. Increase the scope of the Office of International Affairs so as to eventually become the Office of Global Programs. The new office will include an academic wing and an operations wing. Academic functions would include proactive steps related to globalizing the curriculum and the campus, including matters related to recruitment of international visiting faculty and internationalization of NMU faculty. Operations functions will include practical aspects to recruitment and placement of students for study abroad and the processing of international students.
   • Academic Staff: Administrative Academic Leader (Title to be determined).
   • Operations: Two-full time staff. (Add one 10 month appointment, @ AP5 level).
   • Graduate Assistant to be shared between Administrative Leader and operations.

   Qualifications of Administrative Leader: Tenure and the minimum rank of Associate Professor; experience leading US students in one or more study abroad programs; significant long-term (duration of more than one year) professional experience in teaching or in administration in an academic setting serving non-US students; potential for campus leadership; significant living/professional experience in both the developed and the developing world; ability to speak, read, and write one or more foreign languages a plus; and a record of international research/study experience.

2. Create a Global Advisory Committee (GAC) with and advisory committee of 7-9 members, similar to the Graduate Programs Committee. Establish by-laws and operating procedures.
3. Send at least one members of senior administration to the National Association of Foreign Student Advisors (NAFSA) meeting. Send new AP5 to NAFSA Meeting for Training.

I. Internationalization of Leadership 2006-2007

1. Continue to support the Office of Global Programs, reorganized from the Office of International Affairs so as to include academic functions and operations functions. Academic functions would include proactive steps related to globalizing the curriculum and the campus, including matters related to recruitment of international faculty and internationalization of NMU Faculty. It would also include supervision of internationally-related interdisciplinary majors and minors. Operations functions would include practical aspects related to recruitment and placement for study abroad and to the processing of international students.
• Administrative Academic Leader for full-time administration (Title to be determined).
• Operations: Two-full time staff.
• Graduate Assistant to be shared between Administrative Academic Leader and Operations.
• Increase secretarial staff from half time to full time.
2. Continue to support Global Advisory Committee (GAC), an advisory committee of 7-9 members, similar to the Graduate Programs Committee. Establish by-laws and operating procedures. The Global Advisory Committee (GAC) will meet on a regular basis to advise the Administrative Academic Leader.
3. Send at least one member of Senior Administrative staff (different from those sent in 2005) to the National Association of Foreign Student Advisors (NAFSA) meeting. Send AP5 to NAFSA meeting for training.
4. Administrative Academic Leader assumes a supervisory and coordinating role over all internationally-related interdisciplinary majors and minors, currently officially listed under the non-academic department of International Affairs. To this end, the Global Advisory Committee (GAC) will review the role of the existing International Studies Advisory Committee (ISAC), an ad-hoc group that meets somewhat irregularly under the chairmanship of the Head of Modern Languages and Literatures to discuss policy related to the International Studies major, and the International Studies and Latin American Studies Minor.

I. Internationalization of Leadership-2007-2008

1. Continue to support reorganized Office of Global Programs so as to include academic functions and operations functions. Academic functions would include proactive steps related to globalizing the curriculum and the campus, including matters related to recruitment of International Faculty and Internationalization of NMU Faculty. It would also include supervision of internationally-related interdisciplinary majors and minors. Operations functions would include practical aspects related to study abroad and to the processing of international students.
• Staffing: Academic Administrative Leader for full-time administration (Title to be determined). Operations: Three-full time staff.
• Two Graduate Assistants, both to be shared between the Academic Director and the operations staff.
• One full-time clerical-technical; one part time.
2. Continue to support Global Advisory Committee (GAC), an advisory committee of 7-9 members, similar to the Graduate Programs Committee. By-laws and operating procedures are established. Global Advisory Committee meets on a regular basis to advise the Academic Administrative Leader.
3. Send at least one member of Senior Administration (different from those sent in 2005) to the National Association of Foreign Student Advisors (NAFSA) meeting.
4. Send new AP5 to NAFSA Meeting for Training

I. Internationalization of Leadership 2008-2010

• Assess efforts accomplished thus far