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Not a sum total, but a quality

Not a sum total, but a quality.

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Not a sum total, but a quality

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  1. Not a sum total, but a quality • Internationalization is not the sum total of all activities, but a coherent strategy by which international activities and the international environment of the university have become part of training, research, and management activities. I@H facilitates intercultural learning opportunities for non-mobile students, makes administrators interculturally competent and teaches teachers to integrate international aspects of the home campus into their teaching. • Every international activity which does not concern outgoing mobility.

  2. Old Hat? • Is I@H old hat?: intercultural training, the internationalization of the curriculum, teaching the international. EAIE publication from the 90s. • Institutuional implications are far-reaching: relationship between host university students and international students and teachers (and the question why we still separate home from guest students), money for unspectacular measures (language, community relations, intercultural training for all ect.) • For many I@H nice to have … but not essential, too invisible, not sexy enough.

  3. Pandora´s Box? Looking at facts. • Heublein study on mobility (HIS): more than 70% of students will not even consider studying abroad, i.e. will not have the opportunity within their curriculum of learning what we assume students learn abroad - intercultural ability. Heublein study Pandora´s box? • Are there universities who work on teaching students how to engage constructively with „strangers“ in their midst – migrants, refugees, people of other cultures who often share citizenship, international students? • A global university which ignores the local and regional? Focus only on study abroad – internationality = travel.

  4. Examples of Engagement and Home Learning • In contrast to industry, institutions of higher education are singularly immobile • Community Partnerships (schools, health, food): we know that experiential learning completes the study process • University of Pennsylvania (Change slum dwellers into work pool), Stellenbosch University (make sure you will have the applicants you need), Humboldt-Universität

  5. Humboldtian tentacles • Where are problems within the city that we can address: schools, minorities, poverty, health • Stop differentiating between international students and home students and scholars – they all need intercultural training and can contribute to each other´s training: Kustos • What use is teaching Latin to kids from Turkey and Russia? Training to be interculturally adept.

  6. „A University is no social aid agency“: a few questions at the end • Higher Education vs./with Societal Engagement • How do we treat our students in the future? Are international students „special“? • What are the international learning outcomes we produce now? • How can we convince the university that I@H is a good idea? Funding? Communication? • What challenges does I@ H pose for international offices?

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