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2005-2006 Meeting MinutesDuncan started the meeting and introduced announcements (2 min). Quick introductions of new and repeating members. Minigrants-there are more applicants than ever. We would like to extend the $1,000 available to $1,500 per grant. We would like to explore forming a new sub-committee to decide awards. Judy Van Dyck will be appointed as the committee chair. We have a very liberal policy about who can apply: faculty, faculty/grad students, staff. Sub-committee: Judy Van Dyck, Judy Reed, Oscar Fernandez We succeeded in getting Roy Cook to talk at the Internationalization Conference. List of themes (5) named off. We had some lively discussions on these areas. We want to boil down topics to something more solid to present to the deans (CADS-Council of Academic Deans) as action items. Gil wants help with this because it is an important process. Identify what priorities (of 5) are and present to CADS. There is a long process in gaining support across campus, and this starts with going to CADS. We have to work together in IAC to find the best way to go about this. Boil them down to 2 or 3 main topics. Educating for Global Learning Community service issue? P&T Committee Research for Global Learning Bigger, different, sustainable. It's important that students know how to get abroad. Did we decide on two or three? Faculty leadership for global learning University advancement in support of Global learning Most important: Gil: International officer may be needed (everybody agreed). Perhaps there can be a packet for this. CIRR-Committee for International Recruitment/Retention (Anne George) Sustainability and Global Learning Identifying foreign partner universities Synergy among research and curriculum around sustainability. Duncan called meeting to order. Quick introductions and review of meeting times. Duncan: what should we do about minutes? Put them on a listserv and wait for corrections. International Mini-grants Last week there was a vote to increase the amount for awards from $10k to $15k. The provost suggested $3k more to make the total available for awards $18k. Judy Van Dyck is working on FRP. OIA said travel restriction is no longer in place. Gil: before grants were not allowed for travel-now that provision is trying to be listed. We would like to send out the FRP with a December 15 deadline within the next couple of days. The committee also looks for outside funds. Duncan: Would like to lift restrictions. Proposal: Raise grants to $1,500 (total of 12 grants) to support travel. Motion: seconded by Martha Hickey. Gil: Proposals and guidelines should be let to Judy and group. Limits and guidelines for use of money need to be determined. Tom: How are outcomes disseminated? Gil: They are posted on the web. Last year we had a great set of applicants. Rob Sanders Thanked everybody for sending him to Ohio to the conference. Gil was nominated by Duncan to be a part of the internationalization collaborative (ACE) Went to the meeting one month ago. Defense Department to U of O to Woodstock Elementary. Martha: Connecting language (Chinese/Japanese) to career tracks for kids. Rob: Hopes we can put his summary of the conference on the web. He can talk to Rob Fuller about this. (See handout) It was a 'neat' conference because it showcased the state of the art in language learning in K-12, bilingual schools, businesses. What is CLAC Closing forum They want to come to Portland CLAC 2006. They want to hear about the 'China Pipeline.' 2007, where? Materials sharing Which model would work best for PSU? 1 unit model is a good way to start Gil: Would Rob be willing to make the same presentation to Terry Rhodes? Gil: Can we find the connections across campus and make a database of people with certain skills? Evguenia raised question that submersion alone isn't going to provide fluency-only time can bring understanding. Fall symposium No time to talk about this today Gil brought handouts but will send attachments out. Happy Thanksgiving, next meeting on 8 December. Opened 8 minutes late, due to finals week schedules Discussion on language requirements for graduate students We would like to see more students come to PSU and move through ESL matriculation. It's a good idea that we'll be having this meeting. Introduction to Marcus Ingle. CIRR meeting. Meeting times decided: 1-2:30, every other Tuesday. Judy Reed: has admitted 283 Saudi students for winter. There is no guarantee they will come. 21 have confirmed that they will come. 13 want to come, but are waiting on visas. Temporary offices, classrooms, learning center in Science Building II. High enrollment thanks to website (?). Friday, January 6: orientation by Jill Townsley. Non-restricted/restricted will be separated, advised, toured. Jan. 4: placement tests We need an additional 40 classrooms, need to hire 27 adjunct instructors; 18 were hired for fall. Judy Reed says they are ready. Facilities is helping out. Duncan's involvement in helping get space with Steve Reader. We're trying to get IELP permanently in the old engineering area. Dec. 16: office space ready We don't want to create an 'us vs. them' between the buildings. They have to get out in June, so they will start looking for a new place in spring (because of retrofitting of Science Building II). Worksheet of numbers presented. Judy Reed hopes no more than 100/285 Saudis show up. It would be a lot easier. Gil: Consulate doesn't want 285 students at PSU alone either. PSU is worried because if it works it will be wonderful, but if it doesn't it will be terrible. Why can't we make a rule like: Students were notified that they had to let us know, but Saudis don't work this way. Christina Luther: We need to be consistent with all international students. Marcus Ingle: How do we get the 'right' students? We want the top students who are interested in what we have to offer here. Judy Van Dyck: Is there a quota we have to reach each term? Latz: No, this is open-ended. Problem: if there is a whisper that PSU doesn't have capacity, Saudis will stop coming. English levels of Saudis are way too low. They usually just get 2 years in high school. Short-term Education Abroad Ron Witczak: 127 went abroad last year A .65 study abroad advisor is needed Alise spent one year making handbook for program development. Faculty have been a great help. Challenges Staffing Human resources stretched very thin. No more proposals for program ('05-'06) can be accepted. 2006-07 is still open. Gil thinks that the IAC can be a big help with giving ideas to Ron and INTL programs abroad. Kim Brown: said she'd be willing to help make connections. Gil: We need to help Ron design field courses. Kim: Predeparture/ re-entry classes are ideal. These should be made mandatory. Kim: Comprehensive internationalization depends on fitting things together with you get back home. Alumni receptions President, provost and vice president invited. M. Reardon organized Bangkok party; 100 alumni expected. Latz organized Tokyo; 100 expected. Korea is much more a challenge. Low turnout expected, but those who attend will be a good start. There is a budget for presidential presentation, wine, drinks and food. This will encourage reconnecting students to university. Not only about raising money; PSU is willing to help alumni in post-academic endeavors. We are just starting to build an international alumni database. Kim Brown will help make connection United Nations employee in S. Africa is PSU alumni and we need to use him (Masanori) to spark interest in students' minds. Marcus: We need to keep in touch with these students intellectually, not only as alums. We identified so many Thais (back to 1974) through the Banner program. Can we get PSU magazine to alums? It will be put online soon. There are privacy issues in Japan. Minigrants Judy Van Dyck: Deadline is December 16. Christina Luther, Paula Harris and Kim Brown will help review proposals. 3-4 proposals have been received so far. We should make reports mandatory. Clarification of our role Will be #1 on the agenda for our next meeting. Question: What is the best use of our time? What is the status of this council? Minigrants Judy van Dyck announced that she and the sub-committee were please with the diversity of applications. 18 awards were granted. Gil would like Judy to do a reformulation of the grant criteria. We can clarify terms like "matching funds," et cetera. Judy will write a summary of awards. We should publicize these grants on the website. Kim: it is important to stress goals and publicize them. PSU 1.8% of overall students study abroad Maybe it would be an idea to start the application/award process earlier. Move deadline up to (i.e.) November. The announcement could come out way sooner. Accommodating Saudi Students (Judy Reed) 278 applications in winter, 45 showed up. 80 Saudis in IELP Judy Reed is responsible for teaching students. 13 Saudis last term and 25 this term are below basic level English. Many came in on December 23 and 24. Many want host families, some want to stay on campus. What kind of accommodations have University Place Hotel made? Space issues-15 faculty to 35 faculty this term were quadrupled up in East Hall, and the new space helps teachers. 9 offices in Science Building II with new resource room. Space committee at PSU wasn't helpful, so the people involved with organization
were super resourceful in getting the space reserved and set up for teachers. Classes are spread around campus. Last term's B (beginning) level students are all progressing. Half of them skipped the E (entry) level and started in level 2. Paula Harris: 100 Saudis who didn't come this term have extended until spring term. There are Arabic student workers in Admissions, IELP and OISS. Winter term enrollees placed a bit higher than those of fall term. How can we celebrate the connection of Saudis to PSU? Saudi students will take engineering and business courses. Gil thinks this is a very high priority and thinks this should be included in the IAC goals and priorities. Discussion of ESL-RES Gil: 3 Royal Thai Scholars. One is a great student, but his TOEFL is low. Can a risk be taken on a student like this? When we are flexible and liberal on this, it has consequences. Linguistics has a TOEFL requirement of 600. Paula thinks that departments should be more flexible about grad TOEFL scores; GREs are also required. Kim: Some students are offered more time to improve their TOEFL. Judy V.: But this becomes somewhat of a purgatory. Judy R.: New computer-based TOEFL is much better than the paper-based version. How about 'dropping' TOEFL and allowing students to test out of level 5 with a teacher recommendation to study at the mainstream level? The 'university' makes the rules, departments make restrictions and admissions do what they feel is appropriate. Gil: Problem is not in 'graduate admissions,' but with departments and their policies. One major goal for the IAC is to make a proposal to change the structure of admissions decisions. Goals for the academic year Judy V.: Maybe we are beating 'goals' to death. Gil: How about the language, which we are using? Change term 'goals' to 'actual action steps.' There is no talk of curriculum planning in the Internationalization Initiative. We should focus on bringing the provost a report with actual evidence of how we followed through and how we made action steps. It's not only about what we accomplished, but assessing our standpoint and how to change our weak infrastructure. Since so many changes are being made and being pushed, this is a prime time to really take steps to solidify University Studies and other classes that promote internationalization. Can we delegate responsibilities to other campus groups? Most members think that this is a great idea. Programs that enhance revenue will probably be of most interest. We will come back to 'goals/role' when the International Vision Committee will be in attendance at the next meeting. Duncan: There is only one sentence in the University Studies brochure (ad hoc) on internationalization. Judy V. has finished and summarized beautifully the minigrant proposals and recipients. This will be sent to IAC members. Gil will contact the Vanguard about getting something written on internationalization. We are planning on officially requesting full reports from those who receive money. We need to follow up on this. ESL restricted We will invite Agnes Hoff to come into the IAC to let us know how we can help. Anne George will visit the IAC next meeting. The graduate committee will visit the IAC in the meeting after next. ACE IAC is funding Duncan and Toni Levi to go to the ACE Conference. Duncan shared why PSU is attending and what it will bring to our institution as far as accessing our focuses and development. C/LAC Culture and Language Across the Curriculum. Gil spoke with Cindy Brown and is trying to get Duncan to go along. IAC Priorities 1. Accommodating international students Tom Gilpatrick said all are good ideas, but we should scratch those goals that won't draw attention or create resources for internationalization. Duncan called for a vote. Gil explained that he and Duncan were not trying to presume and decisions for the group, but emphasized that the power is in our hands. List of Priorities/Goals a. Accommodating international students and faculty Results of Vote Top 6 13 for a. others 5 for b. Anne George presentation (see handout) Followed by a discussion forum with many questions about how we might be being left in the dark due to lack of orientation, et cetera. We will invite Anne George again, to the next meeting. ACE Conference was on 'flashpoints.' Duncan attended with Toni Levi. ACE thinks organizations/institutions are working on internationalization without considering knowledge/ skills/ attitudes that students should be taking on (see handout). Duncan was surprised by student priorities in going abroad. Toni was surprised that some programs thought requiring foreign language was bad. President Bernstine stopped by the meeting and reported on the trip to Asia. He spoke to the connections that are possibly there and about them being possible future donors. An agreement was signed with DPU university. The trip was a great first step, quite successful, and we have plenty of leads. C/LAC-Kathie Godfrey October 10-12 (second conference) K-6 Chinese immersion program is here (Hosford Middle School) funded by NSEP (National Security Education Program). Kim: Students will be interested in how to get abroad. 4/571 students will be owing 4 hours of class service and they can help. Shift from DOE to DOD. October 13, another conference is being held, so we can do it back-to-back at the Hilton Hotel. Keynote speaker from DOD: Gayle Mcwinn Superintendent of Portland Public Schools-Michael Bacon (?) Budget: We need to have a contingency plan. A minigrant is a possibility, but the budget has to be planned strategically. Kathie, Duncan and Gil will meet privately to discuss the budget for the October conference. CIRR Anne George was on hand for follow-up and questions on her CIRR presentation last meeting. Judy V.: How can we complete the smaller tasks that will equal big steps. We don't have to focus on only big dreams like building an 'international house.' Gil and Duncan will co-author a letter from OIA recommending how this CIRR report can be most effective. They will send it to the executive council of deans. Anne will pluck out 3-4-a small number of priorities-that can be presented. This process should be linked back to the fall syposium. Guest Toni Levi joined the IAC and Duncan for a final report on the ACE conference they attended (see handout). There is a role for Duncan and the IAC in moving forward the role of University Studies and other programs to form criteria they can apply to accessing student learning. Some things needed: 1. goal These things are needed within the next month. They should be presented to the provost since we have an open door. IAC Priorities 6% budget cut = $2million (not across the board) 27 March-reports are due from various units on budget requests, recommendations. #1 priority is accommodating international students, and this is also a revenue builder. Mentoring these students will help with retention. Translate web pages into different languages. Invest in recruitment and accommodation of international students. Online registration Things we should do We should follow through using the language of the provost like, "strategy re-investment." Sub-committee formed to write a letter-a solid list of recommendations Martha Hickey CIRR Report How can we respond to it? How can we express in one page what will work, what we need? We have to make our case internally first. Vision statement could be a preamble to the final detailed report. There is much to talk about on this; we can continue in the next meeting. PSU is cutting $4.1million across the board. The Vanguard is calling everyone to get their reaction. Memo is online at OAA $13million worth of recommendations $1.3million of actual investment New member to the IAC, Eva Nunez, to replace Oscar Fernandez. Yoichi Sato, graduate assistant to Masami Nishishiba, has received permission to attend and observe the IAC. Martha Hickey: Foreign language and literature is not on the Oregon State benchmarks for internationalization. Guest Agnes Hoffman (see handout) " over 80 Saudis in our school community " PSU's share of the Oregon market has grown. PSU finally has become the destination of choice. " We may grow into triple number in countries represented at PSU " We are growing across the board in every segment " Admissions has been communicating more and more via email " We need to focus on a more tangible outreach Admitting them like this will prove better retention. The IAC wants the Admissions Office to know that we are in support of their priorities. Admissions Wish List 1. Developing model for scholarship to recruit international students (Discount
15-20% of tuition, waive application fee, etc.). Gil and Duncan will be meeting with Lindsay tomorrow, and will bring the "cover letter." Gil followed up with Agnes Hoffman, who joined the IAC last week. They spoke about pushing scholarships for international students. An official statement/essay requesting scholarship funding dor international students from the Chair of the IAC with a cosign by Agnes to the Provost might be a great way to end off the year for the IAC. Future of the IAC Should the IAC become an advising council? The Internationalization effort has been "initiated," so what is next? Two options: One purpose is 'governance'. We need to be able to complete projects and report on them to be able to assess our own relevance. A system of governance has three key characteristics, according to Marcus Ingle: First, it may be more important to find a concensus among the current members as to what important function the new committee would hold. Now the IAC represents a combined group of faculty representing different groups/offices on campus. We do not have the authority to make decisions, nor do we have a budget with which we could make moves. It might be a great idea to use the review committee to approach the Provost and thus, achieve our own goals. Ideas on how to take the "next step" 1. generate a draft of what these two groups (above). In moving from our internal phase to our external we need to plan strategically so that we will be persuasive in our transition to a committee of governance. Gil will invite Roy Koch to the next IAC meeting.
The IAC will try to respond to all the questions posed in the letter sent from ACE: Email will be sent out requesting responses from ALL members by Friday 12 May. Next week's meeting will be moved to WED. Meeting with Lindsay Derocher Conference on Internationalization Strategies. When we have a large international conference, it gets the deans involved and gets attention to PSU on a bigger level, which increases the importance of our issues and opens the mind of groups like the Tokyo Foundation to give big grants. There was some anger about the PSU-side faculty about not being informed about the conference, and particularly that former visiting-scholar colleagues were here and PSU faculty were not informed about their being here. ACE site visit: Answering the questions set forth by the ACE site committee will be the agenda of the meeting when they visit the IAC. The IAC will identify three major goals for it's future efforts… these will be much like the 4 goals that UNST has set for approaching the various FRINQ classes. What have we not accomplished? 1. Mentoring of international students Also to be brought to the meeting is the list of goals that was determined
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