ACE Internationalization Lab at the University of Wyoming, Initial TimeLine of
Activities For Project and Subcommittee List
Internationalization Lab Leadership Team: Anne Alexander, Brent Pickett, Yarong Ashley, Penelope Caldwell,
Patrick Call, Carol Frost, Frank Galey, Petra Heinz, Jean Garrison, Jill Johnson, Maria Almendares, Audrey
Kleinsasser, Mike Massie, Mark Peterson, Don Roth, Dick Schmidt, Susan Wynne
Fall 2011
1. Leadership team agrees on common definition of internationalization (Task #1 from Charge
Letter)
2. Subcommittees form, agree on tasks and objectives (subcommittee list and membership
attached)
3. Begin inventory activities
a. What data and information do we need that benchmarks our current range of
internationalization activities, climate, outcomes, and goals?
b. What data and information do we have?
c. Initial discussion of how we fill in the gaps.
i. Provide questions to Student Satisfaction Survey for inclusion in next round of
administration.
ii. Identify other sources of primary data – faculty, alumni, and external
constituents. Begin formulating methods for gathering desired data and
information
4. Begin and complete draft review of college, department, and programs’ university planning
documents, mission statements, assessment plans, and other documents for
internationalization/global competency information and commitments.
5. Begin formulating communications plans
6. Begin review of best practices in international student recruitment and retention
Spring 2012
1. February 2, 2011 – ACE Lab Cohort Meeting, Washington, DC
2. Continue inventory activities:
a. Continue assessing data/information needs and benchmarking current activity.
b. Formulate further survey, focus group, and community meetings
3. Learning Goals and Curriculum: review College, school, departmental, and other academic
programs’ academic planning documents to identify internationalization and global competency
goals. Drawing on ACE/FIPSE Project on Assessing International Learning, determine how
current goals line up with global competency outcomes.
4. Internal Communications:
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a. Meet with Faculty Senate, Staff Senate, ASUW, colleges, and other constituencies
internal to UW
External Communications and Outreach:
a. Determine feasibility of international faculty and students on campus visiting
communities and international visitors to the Laramie campus offering presentations in
other communities
b. Begin outreach activities to communities to do needs/wants assessments
Site visits to peer institutions for discussions of best practices in international student
recruitment/retention
Inventory completed
Provide to Provost Allen and President Buchanan a mid-term report that incorporates the
inventory, initial assessments of the campus and outreach climates (with further survey data
refining that assessment in a subsequent report, as described below), and a timeline for the final
year of the internationalization team effort.
Summer 2012
1. Campus Climate Report completed. NOTE: The Leadership Team requests a slight shift in the
timeline for reporting on the Campus Climate. In the initial charge from Academic Affairs, task
#3.2 was outlined as:
a. “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.
i. A key information resource for the Campus Climate report (which the Campus
Climate Subcommittee will coordinate) is the UW Student Satisfaction Survey.
The administrator, Dean Walter of Arts and Sciences, is willing to include the
Team’s questions on that survey to assist in assessing the campus climate for
internationalization. However Dean Walter, who works with WYSAC Director
Burke Grandjean on the analysis of the survey, has indicated that results are not
available until the summer following the survey’s administration. As such, we
hope you will consider our request to submit a draft Campus Climate report in
May 2012, followed by a more refined subsequent report in Summer 2012.
2. International Student Recruitment and Retention Report completed
3. Internal and External Communications and Outreach continued
Fall 2012
1. Drafting of action items for university planning
2. Communications and Outreach Report completed
Spring 2013
1. Submit final report to Provost Allen and President Buchanan
Subcommittees, Charges, and Membership (last update 11/21/11)
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Inventory of Internationalization Effort –
o To assess where we are in internationalization opportunities, efforts – will need
substantial input from each of the other subcommittees
Co-Chairs: Don Roth and Brent Pickett.
Members: Susan Wynne, Anne Alexander, Christine Michel [Law - Expert], Brandon Kosine
[Campus Activities - Expert], Audrey Shalinsky [A&S - Expert])
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Curriculum and Learning Goals –
o Review current curriculum and college programs for trends; begin a discussion of global
competency skills and how to assess them out of the curriculum; discuss dual- and jointdegree programs, articulation processes; international coursework/study abroad
Co-Chairs: Jean Garrison and Dick Schmidt
Members Don Roth, Audrey Kleinsasser, Penelope Caldwell , Anne Alexander, Kevin Larsen
[Head, Modern and Classical Languages - Expert] , Erika Prager [Assessment - Expert])
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Campus Climate –
o Student life issues for international students, engaging US and international students
together, campus climate
Chair: Audrey Kleinsasser
Members: Patrick Call, Yashvin Madhak [Residence Life/Dining Services – Expert], Meg Skinner
[Elbogen Center for Teaching and Learning – Expert], Oliver Walter [Dean, A&S - Expert ], Steve
Prager [Geography – Expert], Maria Almendares [for Jill Johnson])
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Faculty Research, Education, and Engagement –
o Establish baseline metrics for current international research activity and international
collaboration; investigate/recommend objectives to increase international research
activity and incentives to engagement in international research and education; discuss
incorporating faculty international research and engagement with undergraduate,
graduate, and professional student research
Co-Chairs: Carol Frost and Frank Galey.
Members: Susan Wynne, Jean Garrison, Mark Peterson, Don Roth)
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Education Abroad –
o Working with Curriculum and Learning goals committee, articulate student learning
outcomes for exchange and study abroad, including faculty-led programs, and suggest
assessment methods; identify continuing barriers to study abroad, discuss role of
service-learning, internships, student research abroad; examine ways of integrating
study abroad experiences into UW community and coursework after return from study
abroad; review and discuss existing partnerships; discuss barriers/opportunities for
expanding faculty-led and independent study abroad
Co-Chairs: Anne Alexander and Penelope Caldwell.
Members: Yarong Ashley
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International Student Recruitment and Retention –
o Identify opportunities, challenges, barriers for recruitment, enrollment, retention;
define objectives for strategic recruitment; discuss barriers/opportunities for expanding
international student recruitment; identify opportunities for improving engagement
with / of international students in UW community
Chair: Patrick Call
Members: Mark Peterson, Petra Heinz, Maria Almendares [for Jill Johnson], Penelope Caldwell,
Yarong Ashley
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Communications and Outreach o Develop communications plan for Leadership team, identify content and distribution
methods; communicate ACE project's progress and activities with UW and other
interested stakeholders; develop communications plan and recommendations for future
outreach/communications of internationalization efforts
Chair: Mike Massie
Members: Anne Alexander, Brent Pickett, Amy McClure [Outreach – Expert], Jim Kearns [Public
Relations – Expert]