How to Internationalize Your Campus : Idea 1

Campus Internationalization ideas 1

Internationalization Improvements Ideas and Methods- The term internationalization covers different things  and includes different dimensions  with various stresses at different levels of higher education While there has been much talk about internationalization in many aspects of modern society. . Most people understand internationalization in terms of categories or types of activities. These include academic and extracurricular activities such as: curricular development and innovation; scholar, student and faculty exchange; area studies; technological assistance; intercultural training; education of international students and joint research initiatives

An internationalize university means an  international mix of students, an international mix of teaching and research stuff , Curricula that are culturally independent, where relevant,domestic students that study abroad.So to make campus   a internationally standard university first of all we should concern about the following  points.

It involves everyone ;all students, all stuffs .On campus activities are important as well as international activity. Its not a overnight issue ,it is a long term process and  without planning it cannot be done properly.

Ideas-

1.      Front page of the university website has an “International” portal with diverse information.

2.      Bilingual sign boards should be put up on the campus entrance, main intersections around the campus and the administration building.

3.       There should be an up-to-date strategic plan for international programs.

4.      Arrange significant campus events and awards to recognize international contributions of students, staffs and faculty.

5.      Invite foreign scholars to take up positions on campus as visiting scholars, increase the number of international collaborative research projects, and promote transnational educational programs.

6.      Strengthen Research Capacity

7.      Promote Curriculum Innovation.

8.      Exchange foreign students or local students from different university.

9.      Ensuring students graduate with ability to live as global citizens.

10.  Preparing students for employment in a multi-cultural/international environment.

Methods-

·         English is an international language but in our university English website is not  well organized. A stranger  cannot get much more information from current website. We should keep in mind that all the people are not familiar with Chinese language. So first task is to prepare a standard university website in English so that anyone can know about university by seeing the website. Website includes- a brief description of university, introduction of universities President, all  Departments chairman and Dean and obviously prepare all the faculties profile  with their research interest. Any Scholarship news,Conferrence news should be highlighted. Main thing is that website is need to be well organized..

·         The president or chancellor and academic officers regularly promote internationalization and

the importance of international programs on campus through planning, budget allocations,

program inputs, fund raising, speeches and international travel.

·         Name and location of the central university office for international programs are indicative of the central role of international programs on campus, AND there is a core budget associated with this office that supports central staff, scholarships and a faculty grant program to assist travel, program initiatives, etc—As a result international programs are quite visible on campus through location and impacts on faculty and students. Some institutions even link some faculty lines to the central international office.

·         Faculty are encouraged, supported and frequently involved in international projects through

              research, workshops, artistic shows or performances, and in teaching short-term study

abroad programs or courses for certificate or degree programs.

·           To organize regularly The activities such as ‘International Day’ and ‘International hour’ to  allow foreign scholars and students to exchange their views with the local students about life in Taiwan. It allows the foreign students to voice out their difficulties and questions about staying in Taiwan. 

·         Most important problem in our university is lack of English practice.Most of the students cannot speak in English so that they cannot communicate with foreign students.I think this problem should be highly focused and arrange a compulsory English training course for everyone .I think many student can speak in English but they shy to speak. By arranging this type of course students are encouraged to speak in English.

·         In Undergraduate  level there is no course in English except foreign language course. I think its really a big obstacle in the way of internationalization. All the teachers are encouraged students to speak in English otherwise students cannot go to abroad for their higher study . Offer dual-language counseling and English-taught courses, language training in both English and Chinese.

Conclusion-There is no doubt that though the campus  is one of the prominent university in World . Now our duty is to make this university campus as world class standard. Internationalization is one route to being world class.We want  more and more number of international students in our campus. If you really want to internationalize our campus then all the students ,faculty and staffs should come forward .Students from abroad and local should make a good relation with each other. In order to attract international students to study in , many scholarships or financial support programs could offer to foreign students. The scholarship may be paid fully or partially, which includes tuition fees, administration fees and living expenses. The university could be created the “Policy of the Reward of Recruiting International Student” to reward the department who recruits international Undergraduate and Graduate students. The ultimate goal of  is to develop an international study, research, living and communication environment on the campus. Administration could encourage colleges to offer more English (foreign) based lectures, to provide an internationalized study environment

Campus Internationalization Ideas - 2

Campus Internationalization Proposal

Internationalization Improvements Ideas and Methods:

There are mainly two things which needs to be focused one is the internationalization of the campus and another one is increasing the friendliness between the foreign students and local students.

Below are some Internationalization Improvements Ideas and Methods to implement those:

Idea 1:  Introducing some common sports tournament which is common and popular to both local and international students.

Methods to Implement:

As far I remember, I have got my most  childhood friends from the play ground. So, in this case to increase the friendliness  between the local and foreign students some common sports like football or badminton can be introduced. This will attract both kind of students to participate in it and the foreign students will mix up with the local students. As they will play together like a team, a strong bond will form between them. I believe this one is a good idea cause the sports will make the students fit and also they would love to join in sports. As the tournament will be an inter department tournament so students from every department will get a chance to interact with each other.

Idea 2: To minimize the trouble to choose food in the canteen it is better to make another counter for the foreign students.

Methods to Implement:

There is no doubt that Chinese food is tasty and healthy. Students love the foods in the canteen. But sometimes foreign students face difficulty to find appropriate food for them. So,if there is a separate corner in the canteen where the foods will be according  to the choice of the foreign students they will get chance to get some food according to their taste. I know this is difficult to manage food for each and every person but this is very much possible to serve some food items which are liked by the people from all over the world. Hope in that case canteen will do some good business also.

Idea 3: Providing the chance to the foreign students to represent their culture and special days.

Methods to Implement:

I know there is an International Week in the university where international students present their culture. But I think this is not enough to know a major part of their history and culture. An international community can be formed with the participation of the foreign students. This community will organize some cultural program or a seminar in each month or in the days which are special to their country and present this in front of all the students. This will help every student to enrich their knowledge. Moreover, the students will acquire some organizing capability.

Idea 4:  Newsletters can be published.

Methods to Implement:

News letters can be published to focus the foreign students. In this kind of Newsletter participation of both domestic and foreign students will make the goal of internationalization fulfill as they will directly participate in those Newsletters and  the students will be the responsible person to collect the writings, pictures and they will be the editor of this newsletter.

Idea 5: Why don’t we make a Facebook page for our University ?

Methods to Implement:

Nope ,I am not joking. I am serious. People are getting more online or computer based. So, we also should have to think in that way. Universities like Harvard University, Stanford University use this medium to make their discussion and friendliness more live. People in these days   appreciates more if someone put one like to his picture which he has uploaded in Facebook or any other social media.

Last year Harvard University was the first to use Facebook for their online activity. If you check the page you will get 1.6 million likes. So, you can imagine in which level this can reach. Let us do one active page for our university in Facebook.

Question may arise that how this will become so popular and why people will check this at least one time a day. My answer is this can happen. But need some participation of the faculty and staff. Students will be eager to know what his professor is thinking when he is not in class. Description is not that effective ,you just need to imagine the scenario.

There will be many advantage to do so.If one student like the page then his all friends will also get notified about this.

If one foreign student likes the page then his friends which are speeded in all over the world will also get notified and informed abut this page. Which is a great advertisement of the University. Not only in home country also beyond the border.

 Conclusion:

This is very good sign for the university that a lot of foreign students are coming to the university each year. We should hospitalize them very cordially and make them feel that this is their home. The above ideas will only remain ideas if you do not implement this from our heart. In this case this is more important to treat the foreign students from heart.  Cause only our individual approach can make this effort a fruitful one.