IAU 2015 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE The Internationalization of Higher Education: Moving Beyond Mobility

In preparation for the IAU Global Meeting of Associations 6, this issue - IAU Horizons, 21, 1 - offers reports on IAU priority areas, new projects and initiatives, especially LGEU, and upcoming events and conferences.
IAU 2015 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE The Internationalization of Higher Education: Moving Beyond Mobility University of Siena, 28-30 October 
Internationalization of higher education (HE) is an important priority for university leaders and other HE stakeholders, including governments themselves. It has been on the IAU agenda for many years and has led the Association to develop policy, research and related services in support of institutional efforts in internationalization. Though it is a frequent theme of conferences, our programmes aims at offering new insights and at inspiring new strategies, initiatives and projects.
Institutional, national and regional policies remain highly focused on only one aspect of the process – mobility, and such a singular focus can overshadow broader long-term goals and the numerous other ways that internationalisation can address them by improving the quality of the different dimensions of HE, and by fully integrating many broader, global challenges into the internationalized curriculum, research, campus life, management, the third mission, etc.
It is likely that internationalization efforts with the greatest potential impact lie with the ‘other’ aspects/activities that promote internationalization. This is why the IAU 2015 International Conference will primarily focus on the internationalisation of higher education beyond mobility. Download IAU Horizons, 21, 1.