Using data to shape responsible internationalization strategies: Lessons learned from Canadian universities

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In 2014, Universities Canada (then the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada) conducted a survey to develop a comprehensive overview of internationalization trends at Canadian universities and to chart their global engagement. The survey results present key findings on ways in which internationalization activities are prioritized and carried out in university administration, strategic partnerships, research, student mobility, and teaching and learning. Survey highlights demonstrate how national aggregate survey data can help higher education institutions to benchmark their international activities and strategically shape their internationalization programs and policies. Canadian universities’ international activities are growing broader, deeper and more sophisticated. The pace of internationalization has accelerated.
The FAUBAI session will seek to address how internationalization performance indicators, benchmarking and target-setting can inform the development of internationalization strategies that will manage growth in a responsible manner that maintains quality.
The first part of this session will explore how Universities Canada’s internationalization survey is informing its own advocacy work and is being used as a tool for bench-marking and target-setting by Canadian universities. The second part of the session will provide a Canadian institutional perspective on measuring and evaluating internationalization and the impact that national measurement has at the institutional level.

Author(s):

Cindy McIntyre    
Universities Canada
Canada

Rhonda Friesen    
The University of Manitoba
Canada