2015-2020 Strategic Plan for Internationalization, and

Partial Implementation Plan for

Defining the Future: the 2014-2020 University Strategic Plan

Recommended by the Internationalization Task Force

April 6, 2015

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Preface.

In the opinion of the Task Force, and pending the noted further discussions and review, the goals, objectives and strategies that follow constitute a Strategic Plan for Internationalization at this university.

Usefully, however, because of their explicit linkage to the CSUDH 2014-2020 Strategic Plan, they also constitute a plan for implementation for Goal I, Objective 1.C, of the university’s strategic plan.

We also note that a final report from the Internationalization Task Force will contain a Task Force-generated appendix that is a compendium of many and detailed ideas for furthering the campus internationalization project. The appendix takes the form of a ten-goal plan, with a considerable number of subsidiary objectives and strategies. It is the fruit of considerable work by the Task Force, mostly as it worked in subcommittees in 2013-2014. Of course, the five-goal strategic plan that follows includes the core recommendations of the Task Force, and readers should not confuse this plan with the report appendix.

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VISION

Comprehensive Internationalization supports students, faculty and staff in becoming active participants and leaders in the international-ization process through various research, education, and outreach activities. It will prepare our students to become internationally competent and culturally sensitive citizens, workers and leaders in the global community of the 21st century by creating campus-wide ethos that cultivates learning and understanding about the world.

GOAL # 1. Assess, reorganize, streamline and build campus infrastructure, policies and processes to better support internationalization efforts.1

Objective 1A Establish campus-wide, centralized information and leadership for international

functions and activities.

Strategies/Actions

1. Establish a Center that coordinates / facilitates international functions and activities to be led by the Associate Dean for International Education.

2. Establish a campus-wide Council to assist the furtherance of international functions and activities.

3. Develop and maintain a web site to centralize information.

Objective 1B Develop and promote partnerships and exchanges with international institutions,

ensuring that they serve the strategic purposes of the university.

1 This language is from the CSUDH Strategic Plan, Goal I, Objective C.2.

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Objective 1C Develop and promote partnerships with internationally-focused community groups,

and with businesses with international interests.

Strategies/Actions

1. Encourage and facilitate efforts to build relationships with internationally-focused businesses and community groups, including the large number of consulates and honorary consulates that are located in Los Angeles.

GOAL # 2. Identify, define and encourage a range of meaningful and impactful international experiences for students, faculty and staff, emphasizing the collection and assessment of baseline data and tracking outcomes.2

Objective 2A Develop, promote and assess opportunities for CSUDH students to include learning

experiences in non-U.S. settings as a part of their baccalaureate experience, with a goal of reaching a 30% increase in student participation in international experiences.3

Strategies/Actions

1. Continue, encourage, and assess participation in existing California State University [systemwide] – International Programs, University Studies Abroad Consortium (USAC) programs, and Fulbright programs.

2. Develop and promote faculty-led learning experiences sited abroad, including learning in foreign classrooms and also student-faculty research opportunities in non-U.S. settings.4

3. Develop and promote exchange programs, internships and service learning sited abroad.

4. Articulate units earned abroad to CSUDH degree program requirements: allow students to fulfill requirements while studying abroad.

2 This language is from the CSUDH Strategic Plan, Goal I, Objective 1.C, Strategy 1.3 The 30% goal is found in the CSUDH Strategic Plan, Goal I, Objective C.4 Compare the CSUDH Strategic Plan, Goal I, Objective C.1.

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Objective 2B Develop, promote and assess international opportunities for CSUDH faculty and staff

professional development.

Strategies/Actions

1. Develop a sustainable plan to offer workshops and online information regarding programs and resources available for international experiences and training.

2. Consider faculty-led programs abroad for faculty and staff development.3. Exploit opportunities for faculty engagements at universities abroad, such as

Fulbright and German Marshall Fund programs.4. Promote and support research with international foci.

GOAL # 3. Encourage and support departments and programs to infuse inter-national and global awareness and experiences into their curricula and co-curricular experiences to assist students in exploring cultures, U.S. diversity, world cultures and challenges around the world for freedom, equity and human rights.5

Objective 3A Embed the attainment of international Student Learning Objectives6 in curricular

review and approval processes, and proactively work with CSUDH faculty to infuse international learning into their courses.

Strategies/Actions

1. Clarify for faculty and other curricular leaders the ways in which adopting international student learning outcomes contribute to the embrace, and the attainment, of institutional learning outcomes,7and to the attainment of WASC regional accreditor expectations.8

5 Compare Strategic Plan, Goal I, Objective 1.C, Strategy 3.6 Internationalization Student Learning Objectives, very well-aligned with the university’s Institutional Learning Objectives, are found in an Appendix to this report and plan.7 Ibid.8 See in particular WASC standards 1.2, 2.2A, 2.5, and others. See 2013 Handbook of Accreditation: Quick Reference Guide, retrieved December 3, 2014 from http://www.wascsenior.org/resources/handbook-accreditation-2013.

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Objective 3B Strategically identify a small number of partner universities abroad, and incentivize

work with them to enrich CSUDH undergraduate student learning, including in classrooms on our own campus by means of low-cost technology.

1. Develop means whereby students may demonstrate, document, and receive academic credit for language skills learned outside of a classroom.

2. Embed language learning in curricula outside of Modern Languages.3. Draw upon language teaching and learning resources available at sister CSU

campuses.4. Secure gifts from interested businesses to support language and culture

instruction.5. As appropriate, take advantage of the Fulbright teaching assistant program.

Objective 3C Expand language offered by the Modern Languages Department.

Strategies/Actions

1. Develop means whereby students may demonstrate, document, and receive academic credit for language skills learned outside of a classroom.

2. Embed language learning in curricula outside of Modern Languages.3. Draw upon language teaching and learning resources available at sister CSU

campuses.4. Secure gifts from interested businesses to support language and culture

instruction.5. As appropriate, take advantage of the Fulbright teaching assistant program.

Objective 3D Encourage the development of international learning opportunities, including credit

certificates “nested” within and across majors and other academic programs, without delaying graduation.

1. Embed international student learning outcomes in the curricular submission process: request faculty to show how students taking a proposed new course or new program would achieve one or more of the outcomes. Work with CSUDH curricular approval processes / the Academic Senate to achieve this placement.

2. Make faculty and curricular leaders aware that international student learning outcomes are very closely aligned, with the common university-wide Institutional Learning Outcomes that are already part of this university’s stated objectives for

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learning: see Appendix to this report, and http://www4.csudh.edu/academic-affairs/student-learning/index.

3. Create, and encourage students to complete, credit certificates embedded within the major which explicitly offer students opportunities to achieve one or more of the international SLO outcomes.

a. Establish credit certificates that use courses already offered in the major: “double-dip” for these certificates, thus ensuring that completing a certificate would not delay graduation.

b. Strongly encourage such credit certificates to include achievement of competency in a non-English modern language.

c. Consider awarding credit for student portfolios that demonstrate achievement in suitable international activities.

Objective 3E Expand co-curricular activities that promote internationalization; ensure strong

coordination, effective publicity, and faculty involvement.

Strategies/Actions

1. Establish a CSUDH chapter of Phi Beta Delta, the national honor society for international scholars.

2. Seek dedicated housing, an “international hall,” for domestic and international students.

3. Encourage and incentivize actions that increase collaboration with academic departments, and active faculty collaboration in co-curricular events and activities, including receptions, field trips, and speakers.

Objective 3F Develop and promote initiatives to bring more international visiting scholars to

campus.

Strategies/Actions

1. Build and promulgate easy-to-access and easy-to-use guidelines, request forms, and means to accommodate visiting scholars.

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GOAL # 4. Develop recruitment / outreach and on-campus support for international students, facilitating the university strategic plan goal of increasing to 300 the number of international students.9

Objective 4A Develop infrastructure, and additional recruiting tools, to support the recruitment and

admission of international students.10

Strategies/Actions

1. Consider dedicated personnel, or a dedicated unit, to handle the admission of international students.

2. Review and recommend changes to admissions criteria, application deadlines, and other requirements, in order to facilitate the recruitment and admission of international students.

3. Develop and strengthen recruitment with designated community colleges.4. Build external partnerships with recruiting agencies, focusing on particular

countries identified by enrollment management.5. Encourage admissions of international students who begin their study via the

American Language and Culture Program to CSUDH degree programs.6. Build critical partnerships with Academic Affairs as to majors of interest, as to

facilitation of late enrollment of international students, and generally as to easing international student transitions to department / major milieux.

Objective 4B Expand housing opportunities for international students.

Strategies/Actions

1. Support and incentivize host family programs, programs for dormitory accommodations, and programs for housing off campus.

9 Compare Strategic Plan, Goal I, Objective 1.C.10 Compare Objective 3F regarding international visiting scholars.

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Objective 4C Expand programs that integrate international students into campus life.

Strategies/Actions

1. Expand New Student Orientation programs for international students that feature strong communications as to the process for registering for classes; assure the availability of classes for international students.

2. Review graduate programs to assure that international students carry a full-time study program, in order to maintain their status vis-à-vis Federal regulations.

3. Enhance program efforts with International Student Services and College of Extended and International Education activities including receptions, presentations, and other activities.

4. Secure the participation of non-degree-seeking delegations and persons seeking certificates in campus life, enhancing their experiences and as well the learning program at CSUDH.

GOAL # 5. Demonstrate essential alignment of international goals with major university goals and priorities, making international programs and activities strong contenders for support in university and divisional budget processes.

Objective 5A Demonstrate the effectiveness of international experiences as High Impact Processes,

and the necessity of international and global awareness for the attainment of high-quality degrees in the 21st century.

Objective 5B On the basis of demonstrated contributions to the attainment of university goals and

priorities, seek budget support internally, and financial support through gifts from external businesses, groups and individuals.

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