Academic Refuge: How to Host Curriculum

1. Academic Refuge Welcoming Refugees and Threatened Scholars to Campus Academic Refuge Curriculum

2. Academic Refuge How to Host Curriculum Introduction Unit 1: Welcome Unit 2: Funding Unit 3: Arrival Unit 4: Integration and Transition Wrap-up

3. Academic Refuge How to Host Curriculum Unit 1: Welcome to Campus

4. Academic Refuge How to Host Curriculum Discussion: Why Help? What motivates you to get involved with initiatives assisting threatened and refugee scholars? Understanding these motivations can help identify opportunities/considerations for selecting a scholars that best fits within the university. Having clear goals helps to anchor decision making in a long-term vision.

5. Academic Refuge How to Host Curriculum Consider: What makes a good fit? Geography Discipline/Field Language Skills Credentials Teaching, research, or both? Timeline

6. Academic Refuge How to Host Curriculum Exercise: Scholar Case Study With the assigned scholar case study, review the scholar’s situation and CV, considering where this scholar may fit within a given university. What considerations do you need to keep in mind in determining where a scholar will fit? What parts of their academic background are flexible and allow them to work in different departments? Select a university from within your small group as the designated host for this scholar.

7. Academic Refuge How to Host Curriculum Discussion • What did you find challenging in answering these questions and planning this part of the scholar visit? • For prior hosts, what have you seen as important in ensuring a good match for the universities?

8. Academic Refuge How to Host Curriculum Unit 2: Funding

9. Academic Refuge How to Host Curriculum Funding • May be easier when a candidate is already identified • Creativity is key • Consider • Fundraising within the university • In-kind support • Third party sources of funding • Jointly hosting with another university • If limited funding available, a part-time or short-term contract may still help

10. Academic Refuge How to Host Curriculum Exercise: Funding • In your small groups, work within your Hosting Worksheet and budget and consider: • What is missing from the sample budget? • What are the possible sources of funding at your universities for these costs?

11. Academic Refuge How to Host Curriculum Discussion • How did you adapt to your funding scenario? • How have universities in the room creatively funded scholar visits? What would you recommend to your peers? • Are there any funding sources scholars can apply for independently to make these opportunities possible?

12. Academic Refuge How to Host Curriculum Unit 3: Arrival

13. Academic Refuge How to Host Curriculum Best Practices: Pre-Arrival and Arrival • Immigration and work authorization • Family considerations • Housing • Travel • Orientation • Mentoring • Health • Security

14. Academic Refuge How to Host Curriculum Discussion: Remaining Questions • What haven’t we discussed, what other pre-arrival steps exist? • What other special considerations have you needed to incorporate in planning a scholar visit that haven’t been mentioned here?

15. Academic Refuge How to Host Curriculum Discussion: Remaining Questions What haven’t we discussed, what other pre-arrival steps exist? What other special considerations have you needed to incorporate in planning a scholar visit that haven’t been mentioned here?

16. Unit 4: Integration & Transition Academic Refuge How to Host Curriculum

17. Academic Refuge How to Host Curriculum Integration: Reconnecting with Research • Research methodology/systems support • What existing projects can scholars contribute to? • What support exists for their independent research? • Publishing opportunities and advice

18. Academic Refuge How to Host Curriculum Integration: Career Skills • University Career Center • Job Search Materials and Advice • Professional Development Courses • Networking • Advice • Conferences • Speaking opportunities

19. Academic Refuge How to Host Curriculum Transition: What Comes Next? • Seeking opportunities in the current country • Moving to a new position in a new country • Returning home • For all options, planning well in advance and having a backup plan is key

20. Academic Refuge How to Host Curriculum Discussion • What are some of the common barriers to integration at the university? How can hosts help? • What are you already doing to help support the career prospects of threatened/refugee scholars on campus? • What options might exist for scholars outside academia in their current host country?

21. Academic Refuge How to Host Curriculum Workshop Wrap up: Key Takeaways • A good academic fit between the host institution and scholar hosted is paramount to a successful and productive visit for both parties. • Many universities utilize numerous funding sources in making visits possible. Creativity is key. • Planning for the entire duration of the visit – pre-arrival to post-visit transition – is essential. Also vital are regular communications and check-ins with the scholar. • Scholars who have been well-integrated, received professional development support and have taken advantage of networking/speaking opportunities find transition smoother and have more opportunities available to them than those that do not.