■ PARTNERSHIPS: • Regulate approaches
“Not only is the Forum a convener, not only is it a place where people think about these things and can bring together a lot of people who think about issues that we want to think about, given our positionality and what we do in the area of the world in which we focus. But it’s also the... It’s affordable. Institutional membership is affordable, coming to the conference is affordable… And so as the Forum grows and changes and has aspirations as every organization does and should, I would hope that that level of comfort is always there” - Elena
(exchanges to partnerships) that could lead to student exchanges but also taking courses in different universities with which you are partners. • Explore partnerships focused on talking about the strategy of international and how education abroad is important in that
■ ACCESSIBILITY:
• Study abroad accessibility for all students • Study abroad content accessibility for institutions (HBCUs, HSIs, etc.) • Forum maintains its’ level of “comfort” and accessibility as it grows
■ CREATING GLOBAL CITIZENS:
“This whole situation that we are going through will leave traces. And in the field of internationalization I can foresee the growing importance of internationalization at home, like anchoring internationalization in the curriculum rather than more emphasis on mobility programs and virtual mobility. And that is a possible threat to the Forum too because the Forum has very much specialized on physical mobility on education abroad programs.” – Thomas
• Change in curriculum to focus on creating global citizens • Growing importance of internationalization at home, anchoring internationalization in the curriculum rather than more emphasis on mobility programs and virtual mobility
“I think the Forum needs to continue to articulate the just critical need of global engagement and education abroad as a practice in whatever medium it takes place going forward.” - Leo
“While our eye has generally been on this question of mobility, all of a sudden all of us are talking about well, what happens when there is no mobility?... What does it mean to be engaged in distance education, and what’s the Forum’s interest in starting to think about that?... What does it mean to deliver internationalization and kind of a global education for those students who aren’t moving? “ - Craig
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