Fairleigh Dickinson University is now a member of the American Council on Education (ACE) Internationalization Collaborative, an invitational forum designed to help member institutions advance international education on their campuses.

The goal is to assemble a learning community in which faculty and administrators can share ideas and help each other further their international agendas. The collaborative also complements the international work of ACE “by sharing innovative practices and information on institutional strategies and outcomes as well as pressing issues that need further research and advocacy.”

The collaborative currently has 41 members representing a wide range of educational institutions including research/doctoral institutions, comprehensive universities, liberal arts colleges and community colleges.

“In inviting our institution to join the Internationalization Collaborative, ACE has recognized the serious and systemic efforts we have been making in global education,” said Michael Sperling, associate provost for interdisciplinary, distributed and global learning (Metro/Flor).

Among the activities of the Internationalization Collaborative are annual meetings focusing on international strategies and a Web site of good practices highlighting innovative programs.

Select institutions are called on to designate leadership teams to serve as liaisons to the collaborative, prepare an institutional profile, commit to sending representatives to the annual meetings and engage in various collaborative initiatives.

Those representing FDU include Sperling; Rick Isquith, executive director for global partnerships (Metro/Flor); and Dalila Suhonjic, director of global initiatives (Metro/Flor).

Sperling added, “Our association with ACE has quickly blossomed such that in early April [April 4 and 5], we will jointly sponsor a regional conference on global competencies in the curriculum, to be held at FDU.”

Fairleigh Dickinson University’s profile can be viewed at http://www.acenet.edu/programs/international/collaborative/comprehensive/fdu.cfm.

For more information about the collaborative and to see other institutions’ profiles, see
http://www.acenet.edu/programs/international/strategies.cfm.

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Flor =
College at Florham, Madison, N.J.

Metro =
Metropolitan Campus, Teaneck, N.J.

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