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2007-2008 Meeting MinutesMINUTES OF INTERNATIONALIZATION COUNCIL MEETING Present members: Absent members: Guests: 1. Introduction 2. Minutes review (moved to next meeting) 3. Gil Latz: Chronicle of Higher Education article on internationalization After Karin Fischer’s visit to Portland State, this article became available on November 2, 2007. I want to thank all of you for your comments during the last meeting. This is a good article and it captured what we are trying to do. One thing that caught our attention is the principle that with prioritization of internationalization, we must align fiscal resources, accordingly. This is a major goal for the academic year. 4. Patricia Thornton: Assessing International Learning Duncan: The Internationalization discussion in the ACE Internationalization Collaborative has been in progress for 5 years. The group’s attention turned to articulating international learning goals. Different people have different goals; unless you specify your goals, you don’t know if you are making progress. Once we have our goals, we need to assess them. But it is complicated to assess international goals. Patricia Thornton presentation Pam Miller: Patricia: Gil: Duncan: Gil: Judy Reed: 5. Ron Witczak: OUS Audit, Short-term Faculty Led Programs Ron: The first page in the handouts gives a snapshot of what has been going on for short-term faculty-led programs (the percentage of STFL in all study abroad programs has been increased substantially from 2001 to 2007). Clearly there is need and desire. The OUS audit report identified three recommendations. I think number two (expand the current program review process) is the most important one. For OIA, we are challenged by staffing issues to implement this recommendation. We only have 2.6 advisers and it is time consuming to process programs. We are in the situation of looking for funding to hire faculty coordinators to help faculty review and evaluate programs. This is what the auditors are looking for. I would like to ask the Internationalization Council to take a leading role in helping us. Gil: Ron: Duncan: Judy Reed: Marcus: 6. Judy Van Dyck: updates on Internationalization Mini Grant Judy: Judy Reed: Judy: Gil: Marcus: Duncan: Members voted and decided to go with extension. November 16 was set as the new deadline. 7. Gil Latz: election of Chair Gil:
MINUTES OF INTERNATIONALIZATION COUNCIL MEETING Present members: Absent members: Guests: AGENDA 1. Review of the minutes from 31 Oct. 2007 (5 min.) 2. Report from Frederick Nunn, Special Assistant to the President (20 min.) 3. OUS Audit, Short-term Faculty Led Programs, IC’s response to Ron Witczak (15 min.) Agenda item—Report from Frederick Nunn, Special Assistant to the President Fred summarized that this project is to find out about international students’ experiences and processes at PSU—from recruitment to alumni relations--- so that we can evaluate our internationalization goals and their effectiveness. He said that if we are to reach target students, we need different and improved services, and it is also evident that we need better space. Competition is regional and international and we must improve if we are to compete. International students need to be considered as part of the student body. Six percent of PSU students are international yet they utilize 20% of the Omsbuds’ office, and 65% of the Writing Center. He said that students’ needs have to be addressed as part of the international process and funding needs to happen. Along with this, Fred said that he and Mayumi have gathered a lot of information looking at ways to institutionalize internationalization. Not only does the University need international students, but we have to internationalize curriculum, we need faculty, and need the resources for retention. This project is half way through and he hopes to have it finished in time for the hiring of the new President. The momentum is there and he would like to see internationalization develop with it. Gil asked Fred is there were any recommendations for both international students and our students with international curriculum. Fred replied that we need professors who have specialties along with having various specialty centers, i.e., Middle East Studies Center, Institute for Asian Studies, etc. Duncan asked Fred a question regarding the allocation of resources—would this report talk about looking into money from possible donors? i.e., the MCECS donor had once mentioned money for ESL. Fred told the council that we need an integrated approach. It’s a stronger sell than just one program. Scott asked Fred if funding could be available across disciplines. Is there a way to recommend to the Development office that internationalization should be cultivated? Gil—the Provost said he charges the IC to “Think this year about how to how best to organize internationalization education at Portland State.” This expectation can also be addressed through the Nunn/Oka report. Agenda item--Status of Internationalization mini-grants—Judy Van Dyck Agenda item-Election of IC Chair Agenda item—Short-term Faculty Led Programs, IC’s response to Ron Witczak Gil stated that 50% of study abroad students go on Short-term Faculty-led programs, and that we have outstripped our ability to support all of the work that goes into this effort. There are two pressing issues at hand that Ron would like help on: 1). Have a sub-committee of 3 people within the IC to review and decide which proposals for study abroad programs should be approved and to make sure they are quality academic programs. Action--Gil recommended that the IC will write a letter to the Provost asking for funding; those in attendance agreed. Time ran out, so the following agenda items will be discussed next time:
MINUTES OF INTERNATIONALIZATION COUNCIL MEETING Present members: Absent members: AGENDA 1. Review of the minutes from 20 Nov. 2007 (5 min.) 2. Election of IC Chair (15 min.) 3. Request for a Coordinator, Faculty-led Programs (15 min.) 4. Request for Rostered Positions in ISSS and IEP (15 min.)
Agenda Item-Review of the minutes from 20 Nov. 2007 Agenda Item- Election of IC Chair Judy Van Dyck agreed with the idea and said it kind of help to have another people other than Gil to be the Chair, because whoever the Chair is would talk to Gil from time to time. Jacqueline Temple seconded the idea saying it was important to have the collaboration. All members agreed to vote for the Chair; Duncan handed out the ballot. Members voted. Duncan announced the results: Jacqueline Temple was elected as IC chair with a majority vote. Jacqueline Temple expressed her thanks to members for their support and commitment to enhancing the collaboration and said she would need their continued commitment to collaboration. Judy Reed commented that last year IC met for one hour and a half but this year’s meeting is only one hour, which looks like too tight. Agenda Item: Request for a Coordinator, Faculty-led Programs Duncan Carter handed out the memo from Ron Witcazk to Vice Provost Gil Latz Duncan: In large institutions with large number of older, half-time students, what does internationalization mean? We can’t rely on long term study abroad program, because many of our students can’t leave home for long term. Short-term faculty-led programs are important to our efforts in internationalization. The memo is pretty straightforward, it requires a coordinator for short-term oversea education programs. IC was asked to support this, because if we support it, we can put more weight on it. Judy Van Dyck: it also fits into our mini grant program because many of our grants go to faculties who develop their international capstone program or study abroad program. Some members asked about how these programs are delivered. Judy Van Dyck explained that often the organization is through consortiums. For example, an organization in Oregon will collect all the information and pay the professors. But sometimes individual department has their own study abroad program. Bryant York: does the university have to execute a MOU with the partner for a study abroad program? Judy: if it is university level, then a MOU is needed. Each of the programs is so distinct. Some of them have been going on for years. Some are just completed for one time or two and they are done. Bryant York: does one single coordinator can do this? We have to think carefully about the scale. What if our number of students participating in the program increase in the future? Shall we add more coordinators then? Duncan Carter: we should talk to Ron about this and see what his projection for future needs is. Judy Reed: I taught one capstone program last year, it was more work than I had ever done in my life. I can imagine how overworked they are. But this is so important for the students, we can’t take it away. Jacqueline Temple: we should look at our programs on campus to see which ones are viable and sustainable. We should also take a comprehensive and critical look and consider what responsibilities the position entails. Judy Van Dyck: when we have a coordinator we would have the capacity of taking a strategic look Pam Miller: what should we do to show our support to this? Duncan Carter: it can be simple. We can vote to endorse this and ask our new Chair Jacqueline Temple to send a message to the Provost. Bryant York: we can show support. But we wouldn’t recommend what is exactly requested in the memo. It should be negotiated with the Provost. Members votes and passed the initiative. Agenda Item- Request for Rostered Positions in ISSS and IEP Duncan handed out a memo from Fred Nunn to the President Michael Reardon. Judy explains the document: I manage the International Special Programs, which are funded by soft money. We collect tuitions and fees from participants, which cover the cost of the programs and the leftover support my salary. The program is successful, because it helps support another position in the office, Student Life Coordinator. The International Students Advisers are helpful but they can’t help students on programming things, for example, thanksgiving dinner and field trips. Actually the office supplies and travel fund of OIA are all supported by the soft money. The University promotes entrepreneurial activities, but over time, these sources became major chunk of our funding. What does that mean? Duncan Carter: this proposal was brought up by Fred Nunn, the former Director of International Affairs. Members commented that it was not very clear what Fred Nunn asked IC to do. Duncan Carter: one option we have is to ask him to come back again and give us more background. It was decided that this agenda is tabled for more information. Duncan Carter: looking at the agenda, we will hold the mini grant briefing for next time. Agenda Item: Formation of Subcommittees. Duncan Carter: The reason to form the first Subcommittee is that we haven’t thought very seriously about the charge of the Provost to IC. We want somebody to work on this. Judy Reed volunteered for Provost’s charge Subcommittee. Duncan Carter: we don’t have to make decisions today. If you are interested in any one of them, let me know.
MINUTES OF INTERNATIONALIZATION COUNCIL MEETING Present members: Absent members: Guest: Sandra Freels (FLL) AGENDA 1. Sandra Freels (FLL) Russian Immersion Program Grant 2. Review of minutes from Jan. 8, 2008 and Nov. 20, 2007(10 min.) 3. Formation of a Subcommittee: Study Abroad Proposals (10 min.)
4. Status of Request for a Coordinator, Faculty-led Program follow-up: IC’s
5. Announcements, agenda items for next meeting, questions
Sandra: Thanks for the opportunity; I have been serving in this committee for many years. The committee has an important role. Portland Public Schools worked with the University of Oregon in creating the Chinese program. A Flagship grant was received by PPS for the Russian immersion program, helped by Portland State University. When the Chinese grant was given, it was a big issue that they work with UO rather than a local university in Portland. National Flagship Grant is national security money. But I don’t care where the money is coming from, as long as it is used for language education. A college Russian major usually will graduate with reading proficiency from medium to high. The grant is an infusion program. There are two paths we can take. One is to work with the Russian program with UO but it will be a PSU grant. There should be a national Flagship program in Portland. The other one is to work with the national Flagship program in DC. I was proposing to adjust the UO model of Chinese Flagship program to create the Russian Flagship program at PSU, meaning taking Russian speaking teaching assistant, working with the teachers to create a 2 credit discussion session. The entry level will be intermediate high. We can get entering intermediate high students from a number of places. One is the immersion program of public schools; the other is heritage speakers of Russian. I can get these students ready to enter the program if they are motivated enough. With this pool, I think we can recruit 10-15 students in the coming year. I have talked to Sean Smallman, and Mike Reardon. They are both excited about this idea. I met yesterday with the University Study Committee. They have voted to endorse it and I will be writing the letter. Now I want to talk to you; not asking for money but input. How do you think we can make this successful? I want to talk about the possibility of creating a Russian immersion program in a dorm setting, possibly in the new dorm proposed. We can have a Russian floor, a French floor, a Middle East floor and so on. I am working to get commitment on that. I have a handout of the basic components of the program. If this is funded, I will move forward to work on the curriculum. The program is like a certificate program. Question is how this can realistically fit in to University’s standard programs. The way Flagship program works is that all Flagship scholars go to one Flagship center. The 4+1 program includes 4 year education in the U.S. and 1 year study abroad in Saint Petersburg. Judy Van Dyck: In UO’s Chinese program, if they already have students or need to wait for immersion students in PPS to grow up? Do you already have sources of students? Sandra: Already have sources. Temple: Where will you find teaching assistant(s). Sandra: There are high level Russian speakers in PSU. We can recruit from our own University. Duncan Carter: Is there anything we can do to support you? Sandra: I want you to be informed about what I am doing. I want you to tell me if I am heading the right direction. Also I am looking forward to a letter of support. Temple: We have heard from Sandra; are there any other comments? Decision was made to have the chair draft the letter, but more baseline data are needed from Sandra. Marcus Ingle commented on specifying how to align the program with the international objective of the University, for example, TA training. Item agenda 2: Review minutes Minutes of October 31 2007, November 20 2007 and January 8 2008 are accepted and approved. Item agenda 3: Formation of a Subcommittee: Study Abroad Proposals York asked how many study abroad proposals there are. The answer is 17-24. York suggested having more information about the nature of proposals and then moving on to the formation of committee because it makes more sense for people with relative background to review them. Duncan: Since we only have half of the members here, it is like excluding other people if we form the committee now. Temple: We still have two other committees to be formed. One is to work for Fred Nunn; the other is for the Provost’s charge. How can we be more efficient in forming these committees? Temple: We can send out all the information by email and everybody has it and then we can come back to the meeting and decide on the committees. Judy: Can we send out an email to ask all members to sign up for the committee they are interested in? York signed up for the Committee of reviewing study abroad proposals. Agenda Item 4 and 5 left to next meeting and Item 3 will be clarified then.
MINUTES OF INTERNATIONALIZATION COUNCIL MEETING Present members: Absent members:
AGENDA 1. Review and acceptance of minutes from January 30th and March 3rd meetings (10min.) 2. Interim President Michael Reardon’s vision/ICs’ mission: Connections/Action Updates
3. IC’s Webpage announcement/discussion
4. Next meeting, questions, agenda items;
‘Have a relaxing and safe Spring Break’
Agenda Item 1: Review and acceptance of minutes from January 30th and March 3rd meetings Agenda item 2: Action updates Gil Latz proposed Judy to write down what she just said. Latz: I want to talk about the curriculum piece. Three weeks ago, I asked the Provost to clarify the IC’s charge on that. It occurred to me that curriculum is critical. The Provost said the connection between IC and the Academic Assessment Council, headed by Sean Smallman can be further enhanced. This conversation has moved along somewhat. Now it is time for IC to sit down with the Academic Assessment Council to create an international learning goal that works for PSU and one department can demonstrate within this school year. We proposed to establish sub-committees to absorb existing literature and come up with theoretical basis for articulating the international learning goals. Carter: I remember the Provost said, “You talk to each other too much”, which means we need to outreach. The Provost said, “I would like to see internationalization make sense to more faculty and staff.” Gil Latz: The fact is that for some people, Internationalization looks far away; how can we deal with that? In some sense, we do it better with students, like we have International Night, Japan night etc. But we need to speak with faculty more. Carter: the departments are not the same; some departments are already international like Foreign Language. Judy Van Dyck: it is important to convey the idea of internationalization to other people who are not in this area. For me, sustainability is not very clear because I am not in that field. Susan Chan: what are some concrete examples of internationalization in the music department of other American universities? We have world music class; one adjunct professor got the Internationalization mini-grant. That’s what I know of, what are other examples? Latz: The department of Fine and Performing Art works with a Korean university to bring students. This is concrete examples: students meet students, faculty meet faculty. Carter: this is probably something we can continue to work on; maybe we should organize some events to promote internationalization. Latz: I propose to devote the rest of our meeting to discuss how to generate international interest across campus and to build some images. It can be geographical focus like china; it can also be topical like pollution. The format can be movie series, lectures etc. Carter: It is a good idea to have a subcommittee with 2 people from IC and 2 people from the Academic Assessment Council to write international learning goals. I really do think by the end the school year, we will have something to show. Carter handed out a summary of his trip to ACE Internationalization Collaborative Annul Meeting 2008 in Washington DC Latz talked about the next step of Internationalization and the proposed International private high school. He said “the location was initially on PSU campus, by the Art Department. The recent new developments on that end of the campus lead to that decision. The Principle is already in place, and will organize curriculum around internationalization. They asked me to be the contact person.” Latz: there are some possible funding resources available including the Portland School Foundation, Gates Foundation, Oregon Business Council and so on. So it is certainly not beginning from scratch. They have started and they want us to join them. Judy Van Dyke: each summer we look for 20-30 students assistants to work with visiting international students. So if you have students who are interested, these are interesting jobs. Pam Miller: do you have announcement emails? We can post it on our website. Judy briefly introduced the summer programs which include Korean and German teachers group, Japanese and Chinese teachers group last July and German Geographic students this July. There will be two groups of Full Bright visitors who will have 4 days orientation program in Portland before they go to their host institutions. Agenda Item 3: IC’s Webpage announcement/discussion Li: The current website was developed a few years ago. Some of the information is out of date. For example, the front page is still about the formation of IAC. We need to change it with something more recent, like a story telling people how IAC transformed into IC. Carter volunteered to write this message. Li: another thing is that OIA has hired a new web designer to work on OIA’s website including the IC’s. So this is a good opportunity for us to propose any possible changes to the current forms of the website. Latz: since we don’t have many members present today, we need to talk about this again in our next meeting. Members recommended taking group photos during following meetings and putting on the website.
MINUTES OF INTERNATIONALIZATION COUNCIL MEETING Present members: Absent members: Jacqueline started the meeting and explained there was no agenda for this meeting and the council would use this opportunity to catch up with previous agenda items. Due to a low attendance to last meeting, Duncan talked about the ACE program again. Duncan Carter: We have a long collaborative relation with ACE. We applied and received grant for the “Global Learning for All” project. Eight institutions internationally are involved in this project. The idea is that with a large student population, we can’t rely heavily on traditional study abroad programs. The study under this program helps us to figure out what we should do instead. One is short term programs, which we doubled in number; the other is curriculum itself. Another thing is about assessing international learning. If you have a goal of international learning how you do assess the success? Latest thing is “Bridging the Gap” project. ACE specifically asked us to participate the symposium “Bridging the Gap” at the end of June. The gap is referred to the gap between diversity and internationalization. These two sounds similar, but they are different. Sometimes domestic diversity competes with internationalization and usually fails in getting attention. This is because the political tension between the two ideas. PSU will have two representatives including Gil to attend the meeting; probably will have another person from either internationalization or diversity. One findings of the assessment work many of you have heard. If you think about heritage language speakers, who are American natives and speak another language at home, those people got lower scores in international tolerance, than international students and mono-lingual English speakers. One explanation is they are very focused on simulation. This is an interesting finding. This also has to do with the international goals: how can we work together. If we are working toward the same goal, how can we form some sort of synergy? Scott Marshall: In the School of Business Administration, we are not doing a good job in both internationalization and diversity, but diversity is the weakest field. Internationalization is more explicit and there are more resources devoted to it. Duncan Carter: why so? Marshall: people are not aware of the resources available on campus. Carter asked if money is a problem. Marshall: Yes, under various resources, money is one of them. Carter: talking about limitation from money, the engineering program with Shanghai actually brings money in. Jennifer Perlmutter: what about faculty hiring? Marshall: we have been losing faculty because they don’t meet tenure requirement. Susan Chan: In the Music Department, as far as diversity is concerned, we have one ethnomusicology course taught by an African American faculty member. He also teaches Asian and Chinese music. We also have another African American faculty member who is a Jazz specialist. I myself play traditional western repertoire and contemporary Asian repertoire. I am thinking about putting together a package about teaching Asian repertoire for kids. Recently an adjunct faculty received IC mini grant to purchase library material. The recently established Confucius institute also provides an opportunity for exchange. We anticipate to have a visiting scholar from Korea next academic year. Jennifer Perlmutter: I am in FLL, so everything we do is international. We didn’t do well in ethnical diversity. We lost one faculty member. We have been hiring international faculties. Judy Reed: I am from Applied Linguistics. I was thinking about our mission statement, which really talks about the interaction between American culture and that of other countries. As far as students go, we don’t have many Latin Americans, and we need to work on this region. We have many from students from Libya, because they just started to support their students. Our faculties are mostly women. We just hired two tenure tracking positions, one male and one female. We talk quite holistically in diversity; internationalization is more appealing than diversity, because it doesn’t have racial and ethnicity complex. Domestic issues embody race and gender. It takes all of us to create this space to speak up and come up with something tangible, even something very small. We need also to work on our website. We need to upload the information on the website. Duncan Carter: the international visiting faculty is a great program, 10 years old. It brings in international faculties in summer. I talked with Fred Nunn about extending the visiting period to a whole school year. Another thing in proposal is the Global Virtual Faculty. Image online discussion with input from international faculties who are paid $500 each course. It is a neat idea, since it costs a lot less comparing to bringing in international faculties to campus. Temple: there is no systematic support for internationalization. For example, I am working with the Chinese visiting scholar in our department. I am the advocate for her, but I don’t know exactly how to do it. Reed: I and Martha talked about how to teach international students whose English level is just good enough to get into college. We need to be careful about who we are teaching. For the discussion on IC’s website, Carter proposed to bring in a projector in next meeting so that the members can discuss the website while showing it. The meeting was adjourned at 11:57 as Jacqueline stated that the discussion would be ongoing. She also requested the submission of agenda items (from the members) for the next meeting. At that time, Jingping will discuss the website as well.
INTERNATIONALIZATION COUNCIL MEETING MINUTES Present members: Absent members: AGENDA
Ongoing discussions update:
Information Items:
Agenda Item 1: Review of past minutes Temple started meeting and handed out minutes from last two meetings and asked members to review them and make comments. Minutes of March 20 and April 2 were accepted with corrections made by members. Members discussed how to improve the attendance to IC meetings and how to make people who are busy with other work to be better involved with the IC. Temple asked what was the rationale of forming the committee and how were the members chosen. Carter: we wanted to invite people who are active in international work; we have been worked on this since 2003 so we had pretty good sense who are doing the work. Our charter gives us a term of 2-3 years, but we don’t want to change all of the members at the same time. Carter: I want to make a distinction between starting out and continuing; Gil and I started it out; but we are not necessary the people who do the continued work; it is appropriate to have everybody brainstorm the new or replacement members. Temple asked members: how can we invite more faculty members from your department? Who are viable candidates that we can discuss? Temple: it is also networking; from my department, I know who is doing what; but the question is who will be willing to do it. I also think that brings back to our charge and our mission. Before I saw it, I didn’t have a good understanding of the committee. I propose to discuss the charges of IC in our next meeting; so we can discuss who in the department make good candidates. Agenda Item 2: Discussion of the update of IC webpage Jingping talked about the current condition of the website. The front page message was written before the formation of IC and doesn’t have any information about the change of the committee. Carter will rewrite that message and replace the old one. Members agreed to add new information include the charge of IC and to archive old IAC minutes. Temple made it clear that this is an on-going effort and urged members to think about how to improve the website. Agenda Item 3: ACE “Bridging the GAP” conference Carter continued the talk of ACE’s program Carter drew a diagram to show the relationship between internationalization and diversity. He said: these two are different but there is some overlap. In what way can we expand the common zone of these two? Gil, Martha B and I are going to the Bridging the Gap Meeting (ACE) . We are also trying to get Kevin Keksces because he is known internationally for his work of engagement. Beyond who is going to the meeting, next question is how can we get prepared? Any question about that? Carter: Gil and I met with the Institutional Assessment Council. The fall symposium set internationalization as the 5th learning goal. We specifically want to propose 2 people from IC and 2 people from the Institutional Assessment Council (IAC) to work on defining international learning goals. After we have specified learning goals, we need to assess them. Are we achieving the goals through what we are doing? The provost has just asked that the IAC to consider 3 more learning goals like sustainability, informational literacy, and engagement. We wrote a set of international learning goals in 2002; so we have done this, but then what? There has to be some kind of official authorizing process. If any of you are interested in working on this, let me know. Carter: we want this to happen within this year. Due to time, the other items on the agenda were tabled to next meeting and Temple asked members to propose agenda items for future meetings.
MINUTES OF INTERNATIONALIZATION COUNCIL MEETING Present members: Absent members: AGENDA 1. Review of the minutes from April 16th meeting. Ongoing discussions update: 2. IC members: IC Website Content and Design /20 minutes. Since Jingping wasn’t there to show the committee the website on the computer, they talked of other things: Duncan stated that he had a radical idea: he proposed that they double the size of the IC committee because when people are gone, it’s hard to do business. If the goal is to get the word out, it involves people. Should they ask the Provost for permission? Jacqueline said that Gil did a good job recruiting last time. She suggested that the committee recruit people who are internationally engaged and then Gil can tap them. Pam mentioned that this needs to be channeled through Deans and would solve problem of staggering terms. If they went through the Deans then it would be fair because some professors are so overloaded with committees. Jacqueline said they’ll look at how to recruit so people are not overloaded. She will talk to Gil about this.
3. Duncan: Institutional Assessment Council Task Force/Subcommittee/20 min. Duncan said that since internationalization was added as one of the 5 goals, the IAC hasn’t done anything yet. No measuring of whether students are learning, etc. We are on the cutting edge (FIPSE). They want to propose that 2 people from the Internationalization Council and two people from the Institutional Assessment Council meet to hammer out the goals that the Provost is pushing. They need to get goals articulated so we can access them. Duncan will be one of the people on the IC side—the goal is to be done by the end of the year. Judy Reed volunteered to work with Duncan on this. Scott asked if we have matrixes. Duncan replied that we have 3 tools: Jackie asked Duncan if once he has the template would he please come back to show the IC. Duncan said yes, and that it will be produced by the end of the year. He said that it is important to have clear goals to assess. Scott asked about these goals—what does that mean? He said he is still trying to get a sense of what it means. What are we driving to? He’s trying to get the essence. Jackie explained about the purpose of the committee and why and how it evolved and why the learning goals are important to assess students and programs. Scott asked what does it entail? Global citizenship? He asked how do you fit it all together? Jackie said that every spring we come back to goals and that we circle back to the core—how does it become embedded in the curriculum? How do students become more international? Duncan said that in the beginning we had a broad idea of the 5 goals, but not $. There was a good report about international recruitment and retention and what happens to students when they come here. Jackie replied that the IC has made progress. Duncan explained about the ACE project with 7 universities (Global Learning for All). PSU has increased Faculty Led Programs as a result. Scott said that if we don’t have a clear sense of what our goal is, then we must be crystal clear. How can we do this? Judy V. said that in her view, if you want to really internationalize the curriculum, you need to build it into the promotion and tenure system in the same way that service- learning and community service became built in the promotion and tenure criteria for faculty. Jackie said that we need to figure out how to present this. There is still a lot of fragmentation. How do we set foundation in order to proceed? How do we assess/measure? Duncan --you have to have learning goals: what do you want your students to know? Intercultural tolerance. If we can articulate goals, that helps us design co-curricular program. Jackie replied that it’s a struggle. How do we know. Jennifer stated that we are now in a position to implement something and that doubling the committee would help. Scott said he would send out a strawman—a simple diagram around citizenship. To implement this we need representation of what this is. Jackie --this has been a wonderful meeting even though small, and that she welcomes this type of dialog. It helps us understand why we are here.
On April 9th Duncan, Gil and Jackie met with International High School to find out what would be the role of PSU. The people at International High School were unable to define it. There wasn’t any sense of collaboration and the key players weren’t at the table. They didn’t get to discuss curriculum and they seemed not ready to collaborate. Jackie explained the international high school opening in the Fall. She said she’s not sure where it’s going.
Jackie will be in Finland and be able to be here on the 14th. She asked Duncan if he could conduct the meeting and he agreed. Both she and Pam said they are in the field a lot.
MINUTES OF INTERNATIONALIZATION COUNCIL MEETING Present members: Absent members: AGENDA
Ongoing Discussions Updates: 2. Scott Marshall & IC members: discussion: Strawman-Global Citizen/Assessment tool 3.Report on IC/IAC work on International Learning Goals-Carter 4. Arranging reports on mini-grants—Van Dyck 5. Further thoughts on the composition of the IC 6. IC members: IC Website Content and Design
New Business: Information Items/Announcements: IC members Duncan acted as Chair since Jackie was in Finland. Minutes from April 30 were reviewed and accepted with revision. Agenda item 2 was tabled until Scott Marshall is present. Duncan: about IC mini grants, we usually ask recipients to come in for a brief presentation/report. We will have this discussion when Judy Van Dyck is here. Agenda item 5: Further thoughts on the composition of the IC Gil: This is our first year as administered committee, we are pretty new. The faculty senate wants to know who the appointees are before the new academic year. We want to get the idea back to the provost before the deadline in June. We all know there have been changes to the committee; we’ve really moved from being an initiative to being a permanent part of the university. . We are excited about it. The fundamental problem is: how do we best fashion our agenda and membership so that in the next year we can say that we started from here and ended there. Jennifer: Will the idea still be one member from each college? Gil: That is to be discussed but it is clear that the Provost wants cross-campus representation. He also thinks we talk to each other too much; we need to talk to more people. Jennifer: I like the cross -campus representation. I have learned a lot about what others are doing. Judy Reed: But did you have a chance to talk to your colleagues? (To disseminate information about what the committee is doing?) Jennifer: No Judy Reed: Neither did I. We should set up time to do that. Duncan: This year our work was mostly inward looking. We need to think about reconciling the various (5) goal statements of the committee. Maybe we can’t get to all of these today, but it is worth a whole meeting devoted to talking about it. Gil: We have to be mindful that there are only a few administrative committees like this. I think now they have answered everything; they have answered the same questions that we are asking. The way that they have woven themselves into the university’s conversation. How do we measure the success of these activities? Whether we are saying more faculty participate in international programs or more international students come to PSU, there are a lot to point to as evidence that internationalization is happening. The question is how the committee facilitated such activities, and how do we track and document the committee’s contributions? Judy Reed: When Interim President Reardon was here, he said the committee should focus on curricular goals. Fred Nunn has done a report. When can we see it? Gil: We should let him know that we value his report and ask what part can be shared with us. Duncan: what do you think about doubling IC membership? Gil: I think quality is more important than quantity. There is some middle ground; what seems more important is that we demonstrate the conversation with other parties across campus each year. Jennifer: I think one of the reasons to propose more members is because the attendance is low. I don’t know why. It wasn’t like this last year. Agenda Item 3: Report on IC/IAC work on International Learning Goals-Carter Duncan: If you recall in our last meeting, Gil and I proposed forming a committee to figure out international learning goals. There are two people from the Institutional Assessment Council (the new IAC), Craig Wollner and Bill Fisher, and two people from the IC, Judy Reed and I. We already had a draft. The most interesting thing about the process has been the international learning outcomes ranking document. There are three sections: knowledge, attitudes and skills. People were asked to select their top 3 concerns out of the list for each section. By way of illustration (and to provide a check on the subcommittee’s work), we can go through this exercise today. Members voted for the 3 sections and brainstormed how to present the results, whether some of the statements could be combined and reorganized. Duncan: the committee will work on the goal statement of 2-3 sentences. We will put together a rough draft, compare it to existing literature and check to see if we missed anything. We expect to finish this by the end of the school year. Gil: What will the IAC will do with them? Judy Reed: We should talk to the faculty at large and say these are the broad goals, what you have done that can speak to these goals? Gil: It was suggested that this committee will need to make an end-of-year report. In it, this particular issue will need to be addressed for the provost. We need to remind Jackie about this agenda. The deadline is the end of June, which is not very far away.
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