Academic Integration of International Experience:

1. Academic Integration of International Experience: The Univ. of California Academic Integration Strategic Initiative Ann Marie Plane, Faculty-In-Residence, UCEAP

2. History of UC Academic Integration Efforts • Original vision (1962-1989)

3. University of Bordeaux 1962

4. Asia: Valued Partnerships since 1964

5. Growth, diversity of programming: Egypt, 1980s

6. Ambitious AI program launched (1990s-2000s) Institutional Complexity • 10 autonomous campuses • over 234,000 students • thousands of faculty • $$$$$$$$$$$$/TIME/STAFF • Scott D. Cooper et al. in, Internationalizing Undergraduate Education, ed. Lynn Anderson( Univ. of Minnesota, 2005) • 50th Anniversary Year: 2012

7. Current state of UCEAP • 4700 students in 2011-12 • Over 250 programs, 39 countries • Recent reorganization • Shifting relationship with individual Univ. of California campuses • Faculty-led programming

8. Student satisfaction high: • Adam Noily, UCB | Peking University, Beijing"EAP has been an integral part of my college education. It has complemented my studies in a way that no course at my home university ever could....As far as my emphasis in the politics and economics of China is concerned, any attempted study of this subject without the firsthand experiences offered by EAP would have been pure folly.”

9. Active Research Program • Regular surveying; • Student, Parent satisfaction; • Student Focus Groups (2011) • Academic Outcomes Survey • http://eap.ucop.edu/ or contact UCEAP Dir. of Research, Gordon Shaeffer • gshaeffer@eap.ucop.edu

10. 50th Anniversary Strategic Goals: 1) Best Business Practices 2) Academic Excellence 3) Study Abroad for All • Strategic Initiatives for the last 18 months • Academic Intergration working group

11. Academic Integration working group • Convened April 2012 • Staff/Faculty representation-each campus • Systemwide and campus co-leadership • Will sunset June 2014 • Will recommend overall AI structure • Focus on measurable results • Consult on Acad. Outcomes survey design

12. Acad. Outcomes Survey 2011

13. Results: Core Major Courses • About half the respondents intended to pursue Core Major Courses (CMCs) through their UCEAP program – 51.7% • 80.9% who intended to enroll in CMCs did so • Some who didn’t intend to also enrolled in CMCs

14. Results: Major Elective Courses

15. Results: Additional Academic Consequences of Study Abroad

16. Results: Past Participants Recommendations to UC Students

17. AI Working group3 pilot initiatives: 1) Internationalizing Engineering • Engineering summer: foundations • Engineering summer: research/internships • Major course articulation • Mechanical, Computer Engineering 2) Useable Information (web updates) 3) Course Approval Data Collection • Capture student successes (my EAP) • Standing Dept/College agreements • Track via Registrars’ degree audit systems

18. Conclusion: • Audience comment on experience with similar initiatives • Problems, prospects, successes? • Measures of effectiveness?