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[North/South America]
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(a) International strategic plan; motivation plan for departments to internationalize
Institutional flexibility to access funds
Scholarships/financial support for students (4)
Increase international opportunities for students/faculty (3)
Research funding (2)
Funding (3)
Increased research productivity
1 + 1 degrees with foreign universities
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(a) Higher faculty/student ratio
Additional financial resources to meet needs
Further develop social sciences, humanities, arts
Maintain academic excellence
Providing highest quality education)
Ongoing graduate & faculty research
Research
Funding
Internationalization
Consolidate international networks
Greater student exchange
Internationalization of curriculum
Enhancing collaborative research and education
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(b) Leadership
Modernize university management
Administrative flexibility to hire and fire
Funding to hire and retain top faculty
Faculty compensation
Professorships
Increase opportunities for students to take "middle year" away from home institution
Knowledge transfer
Scholarships/financial support for students
Support for visitors from abroad
Recruiting top students from Mexico and South America
International collaboration
Delivery of courses, etc. in English
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(b) Improved physical plant
New Ph.D. programs
Making students employable
Funding for seminars/conferences
Expansion of courses with regional and global content
International education
Launch an international business degree program
Increase number of undergraduate students
Graduate student growth
Funding for students
Fellowships for Latin American students
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(c) More international faculty
Hire younger faculty
Module for career development service
Language training
Dissemination/outreach
Connecting research to societal needs
Funding to strengthen academic offerings
Library and laboratory space
Institutional adaptation to enter internationalization
More international collaboration
Needs and priorities are the same
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(c) Improved MBA program
Giving students a full education not just arts education (music school)
Quality student experience
Interdisciplinary programs/academic excellence
Research
Dissemination of research to other institutions worldwide
Interdisciplinary programs/academic excellence
Build on/enhance school's academic strengths
Inclusion; increasing access of the underprivileged
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2. In what specific way(s) has and is globalization affecting your institution? (Cite the three strongest impacts, from high to low):
[Africa/Europe]
(a) Increase of student exchanges/mobility (3)
Increase number of foreign students
Greater cooperation with other universities
Recruit domestic and international students
Attract student from more than 70 countries
Introducing BA/MA structure
Greater competition/competing internationally (3)
Competition for donor funding
Enables entrance into HE network
Brain drain
Participation in ERASMUS projects
Policy-related issues
Bologna Process (adjust curricula, etc.) (Germany)
Need to develop a coherent diploma linked to bachelor〜PhD market
Pressure to develop program quality
Need to teach English
Stronger research focus on quality assurance through EU, international mobility of staff/faculty/students (2)
Training scholars and professionals
Train managers to operate on international level with local know-how
Innovative/flexible research and delivery of academic programs is increasing
Opening up regions in conflict to the global village
(b) Participation in international research projects
Better opportunities and competition
Common interest in global issues
Public administrators' lack of goals, etc.
Improve teaching by importing students from abroad (Germany)
Identification and definition of research lines
"Homecoming" programs are not effective; incentives to persons abroad
Environmental awareness
Scholarships
Should enable unrestricted exchange of ideas
Globalization affects the institution in that the professors become more competitive
Meeting all-European education demands
Domestic students frequently study abroad
Globalization affects the institution in that the Innovative/flexible research and delivery of academic programs
Articulation of degrees with universities (music Conservatory)
Recruitment of international staff and students
Domestic students frequently study abroad
Sought by other institutions as partners
Internationalization of education
Increase diversity of student body
More course offerings
Course, degree programs offered in English
Internationally comparability
(c) Standardization of education
More focus on global issues
New developments
Language-related issues; English growing as language of instruction, research (2)
Improve facilities/equipment
Increased competition for students/faculty
Participating in projects
Offering postgraduate programs abroad
Crisis of equality in the welfare state
Developing mutual interests with Asia
Create opportunities for partnerships and alliances
Mobilization of professors & students in HE reforms
Exchange programs
Building quality research themes
Mobility of students and teachers with increasing administration
Events in ME both help and harm ability to satisfy our needs and achieve most important goals and priorities
Focusing research on areas of expertise
[Asia/Pacific]
(a) Mobility of talented faculty
More international programs (2)
Formal relations with institutions abroad
Competition with foreign universities
Greater competition for funding, staff & students
Expanding & improving scholarships
Best students attracted to foreign univs.
Faculty have more opportunities for international cooperation
Inclusion of globalized teaching subjects
Good students
Increased student mobility (2)
International collaboration
Increasing no. of international students (2)
50% of students are international (MBA)
Internet/IT for India-specific research
Activate field research-oriented graduate students
New concepts & strategy to run the university
(b) Curricular standardization
Must strive to recruit qualified faculty
More cross-border research on global issues by faculty
Increased number of jointly offered courses with foreign universities
Informal relations among faculty and students, international & domestic
Accessibility of all information & technology
Need to improve quality of teaching and R & D
Competition for publication in major research journals has increased
Influence of international ranking systems on our strategy
Foreign language use
Increase understanding of our university's SYLFF Program
Rapid growth of international exchange activities /collaboration (3)
Becoming one of the main education hubs in the region
Talents receive a good education in the global framework (?)
Increasing number of foreign students
Increase in numbers of graduate students
Increase in running costs
Subsidized versus full-cost principle for financing higher education
(c) English as language of instruction (2)
Easier to access and share information
Increased cooperation vis-à-vis teaching & research with foreign universities (3)
Greater numbers of foreign students
Loss of domestic students to international competition (2)
Broader knowledge from students
Program evaluation to be more competitive
Students' vision advanced to world-level
Exchange of information; different views and values
Need to increase qualified faculty
Quality assurance in academic process
[North/South America]
(a) Changing nature of institutional competition
Adjust priorities vis-à-vis
Competitiveness
Competition for top faculty
Increased student exchanges
Competition for top tier students
Diverse student body
Changing demographics/student demands for programs
Increased pool of international students (2)
More students from Asia & SEA
Internationalization of academic programs
Greater demand for regional knowledge in global and comparative text
Better access to scientific production & ideas
(b) Challenges for providing MBAs with skills they need
International academic programs
Divergent needs of student body
More diverse student body learning from each other
Greater need for cooperation within/between fields & disciplines
Student demand for programs
Face greater competition
Increased research on global issues
Escalating competition for students and programs
Proliferation of graduate study programs in international affairs
International competition for funds and faculty
(c) Necessity for collaboration with universities worldwide
Integration of different fields of study/research
Need for accreditation process
Visa/immigration issues
Need for greater presence outside U.S.
Increased awareness, particularly in the US, of school mission & importance of what is taught
More US students participation in international internships & study abroad (in Eng)
Need for re-prioritization of university's needs to greater interdisciplinary/regional/global demand/needs
More global perspective on the American diasphora
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