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Myron B. Allen
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ACE International Laboratory Leadership Team
Myron Allen
Charge to the team
23 September 2011
President Tom Buchanan
This past summer, upon the recommendation of UW’s academic deans, I accepted the American Council
on Education’s invitation to UW to participate in its Internationalization Lab. The project requires UW to
establish an Internationalization Lab Leadership Team, on which you’ve agreed to serve. Anne
Alexander and Brent Pickett have graciously agreed to serve as co-chairs, in accordance with the
structure recommended by ACE.
My interest is to continue the upward momentum that UW’s faculty and its academic leaders have built
up, over the course of many years, in international activities. The Internationalization Lab will entail our
working closely with ACE over the next 16-20 months to accomplish several goals:
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Review UW’s current international activities
Develop global learning goals and a plan for assessment
Develop strategic goals that will sharpen UW’s global presence and help expand its effectiveness
in international education.
In the long term, this project should deepen UW’s efforts in three areas identified in University Plan 3:
international recruitment of faculty and students, study and research abroad for members of the UW
community, and international aspects of the curriculum. The Leadership Team is welcome to identify
additional areas of relevance.
I would like the Leadership Team to undertake the following tasks:
1. Define internationalization, with special reference to its meaning in light of UW’s distinctive
context and institutional mission.
2. No later than the end of November 2011, provide to me and to President Buchanan an initial
timeline of activities for the project and an outline of subcommittees and their objectives.
3. Provide to me and President Buchanan a mid-term report, due in May 2012, that includes (1) an
inventory or audit of current international activities and opportunities, (2) an assessment of the
university’s climate for these activities, and (3) a list of milestones with a timeline for the final
months of the project.
4. By December 2012, develop a set of six to ten recommendations for university-level action items
to promote internationalization, for possible inclusion in University Plan 4.
5. No later than May 2013, submit to my office a final report that summarizes the Leadership Team’s
findings and recommendations.
Please engage the entire university community in this program. Your efforts to be inclusive should extend
to colleagues in as many functional and disciplinary areas as possible, from across our institution. The
Lab project should include analysis and conversation not only on UW’s Laramie campus but also among
colleagues and constituents served by the Outreach School. I hope that many of your recommendations
will have significant bearing on Outreach students and those teaching off the Laramie campus, as well as
students and employees in Laramie.
Thank you for being willing to undertake this project. I encourage you to think creatively and boldly about
ways to expand our international capacity, and to make recommendations that will benefit our institution
and UW students in the most effective, efficient way. I hope the project will be exciting and rewarding.