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Campus Internationalization Solutions

New Opportunities for Internationalizing Your Campus

Introducing New Campus Internationalization Opportunities

Higher education, and international higher education in particular, has been undergoing rapid change – changes accelerated by the recent events surrounding COVID-19. CIS Abroad has been transforming, too.

We’re creating new opportunities to support students in their efforts to internationalize their college experience, both at home and abroad.

We’ve designed new programs that support your institutions in your efforts to internationalize campus and curricula efficiently and effectively. For more detail on these programs, please download our brochure: Virtual Campus Internationalization Solutions

The academic division of CIS Abroad provides consultative services in support of faculty development and collaborative, virtual global learning. An initial conversation can help university faculty and staff assess their basic needs, challenges, and goals. A plan can then be developed based on institutional needs, preferences, and budgetary allowances.

Sample Student Learning Outcomes

Exposure to International Experts:

Gain exposure to international experts in the target content area, each with varying cultural backgrounds and perspectives; begin to understand their academic discipline within a comparative international context; demonstrate knowledge of global issues, processes, trends and systems

Exposure to Cross-Cultural Themes:

Gain exposure to cross-cultural themes, and be guided to take into account diversity and cultural differences in their daily lives; begin to demonstrate an appreciation of, and open-mindedness toward, other cultures

Demonstrate Understanding of Their Identity in Relation to the World:

Begin to demonstrate an understanding of how their own identities, values, beliefs, and cultural frames of reference influence their relationships with others. Gain professional experience in an internationally oriented setting, engaging in direct service with a different culture and community from their base in the U.S.

Gain Career Skills Suited to a Globalized Economy:

Gain skills related to project management, service-oriented communication, and the nature of remote work

Contribute to International Communities:

Engage in professional skill-building while contributing to the growth of their partner organizations and reflecting on larger issues within their “host” communities.

GLOBAL IMPACT PROJECTS

CIS Abroad group-based, community-focused consulting projects match faculty members and their classes in the U.S with organizations (clients) located in one of our program sites across the globe. It provides students with the opportunity to apply theory to practice, and to assist an organization abroad in need of specific skills and support. At the end of the term, students provide concrete deliverables to their client abroad, thus helping their partner organization expand their work. Once matched with a partner organization, faculty take the lead on arranging meetings between the client and the class throughout the term and oversee progress, ensure positive communication, and obtain feedback from the client. Impact projects are organized such that each class has one client that they work with over the course of the term. For more information on the types of projects available, please visit our Global Impact Project program page.

$1,990 per Project as of March 3, 2021.

Working Across Cultures Master Class

This master class introduces students to what is meant by culture and how culture impacts our ability to effectively communicate with others. A series of online modules, combined with supplemental lectures and cultural engagement lab activities, expose students to the concept of culture in its various forms. By completing the tasks associated with each module, students will be on their way to identifying and developing the key skills they will need to effectively work – and lead – across cultures both domestically and internationally.

$2200 for 0-25 student enrollments; $3900 for 26-50 student enrollments. Bundled in packages of 25 student enrollments. Volume discount options are available.

GLOBAL CAREER SKILLS SERIES

This series of online career preparation modules addresses key competencies that today’s employers are looking for. Ranging from how to develop your personal brand to working effectively across cultures, each module prompts students to consider how they can effectively convey their skills and experiences to future employers. Campus student services offices such as Career Centers and Education Abroad Offices can offer students this series as comprehensive training in advance of applying for jobs or to graduate schools.

$2,990 for 1-25 student enrollment; $5,4000 for 26-50 student enrollments. Volume discount options are available.

FACULTY DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOP

Infusing Student Learning into Faculty-Led Programming

CIS Abroad’s Vice President of Academic Affairs guides potential, new, and seasoned faculty leaders through a two hour workshop focused on methods for developing faculty-led programs that center on student learning outcomes, incorporate critical reflection, and engage students in truly immersive learning experiences.

Starting at $1,990 per workshop, delivered virtually.

VIRTUAL GLOBAL INTERNSHIPS

Remote work isn’t the future of global business – it’s the present. Students work on projects for an international organization from their home base in the U.S. – while adding a global perspective to their professional work experience. They apply their in-class knowledge to real-world meaningful work, gain hands-on experience, expand their skill base, and learn what it is like to work remotely across time zones and cultures. VGIs are project-based, with students working remotely on tasks and assignments that meet the needs of their internship organization.

VGIs can easily be adapted as a 3-credit course that accompanies a semester or summer curriculum. Students can earn credit via CIS Abroad and our school of record Plymouth State University, or homeschool credit can be pursued based on the syllabus provided. Each VGI program is worth 3 U.S. credits; students can ‘stack” VGI programs by enrolling in two different internships over the course of a semester and thus earn 6 credits total. A digital credential in Working Remotely Across Cultures is awarded for successful completion of the credential requirements.

$1690 per Virtual Global Internship.

Additional $600 fee per VGI if pursuing an official transcript and credit via CIS Abroad and our School of Record, or an additional $250 fee per VGI if only a CIS Abroad Grade Report is required.

Student Feedback

Working cross culturally has given me the opportunity to experience new perspectives, and will influence how I will approach problems in future workplace environments: with the understanding that just because we are different does not mean that we do not still experience the same emotions.

Global Impact Project – Biomedical Engineering Project Design Intern —