International Network Track 

Launching Global Online Programs and Certificates
Marina I | International | Applied |
This session will provide data-driven insights into the global market for certificate programs, after the pandemic. Presenters will offer an analysis of countries with the highest interest for online certificates, as well as the subject areas presenting the most opportunity. Also, the session will discuss Georgetown's development of online certificate programs in a way that matches the University's mission while bringing in additional revenue. The presenters will provide lessons learned and plans for further development.

• Kelly Otter, Georgetown University
• Margaret Cook, Studyportals
• Marcel Bolintiam, Georgetown University

Bridge Over the Pond: The Future-Ready Potential of American & British Universities
Marina II | International | Strategic |
Universities in the United States and United Kingdom share similar challenges and opportunities. Both markets face significant enrollment and revenue headwinds. Universities on both sides of the pond are also working to extend access to critical programming that supports socioeconomic mobility and employability—locally and globally. In this session, panelists will reflect on the transforming conditions of the British and American higher ed space. Panelists will then reflect on innovative restructuring and launch processes they’ve participated in to serve new audiences, innovate program and credential models, build more engaging learner relationships, and establish long-term financial sustainability.

• Shauna Cox, The EvoLLLution: A Modern Campus Illumination
• Yakut Gazi, Duke University
• James Gazzard, Cambridge University

Navigating Start-Ups and Turn-Around Internationalization Strategies
Marina II | International | Strategic |
International education has undergone a metamorphosis. The pandemic led to uncertainty, downsizing, and stalled initiatives. This presentation focuses on strategies to build and turn around international teams, strategies, and positionality in ways that match current realities. This session offers examples on how to envision and achieve the change necessary for your unit to thrive and will address ways to make a case for internationalization and galvanize teams around new realities. We will address generational differences in the changing workforce and review motivation strategies. Participants will reflect on personal leadership values to guide them in creating impactful and purposeful organizational change.

• Debra Leahy, California State University, Fullerton
• Jenn Christ, Northeastern University

Stop & Share Sessions
Harbor 1
Attendees are invited to stop in, mill about, and engage in these dynamic, demonstration-type conversations hosted by presenters ready to share ideas on a hot topic, best practice, or technological innovation.

Legislation, Taxation, Pandemic and AI: Recent changes altering the landscape for Transnational Education in Hong Kong
International | Applied | Tag: Policy; AI
Legislation, Taxation, the Pandemic and AI may be having a significant impact on the prospects for transnational education in Hong Kong. The presentation explains the background to these changes and the implications for the foreseeable future.

• John Cribbin, HKU School of Professional and Continuing Education

International Authorization: Determining Internationally Located Student Eligibility for Online Programs
Marina III | International | Foundational |
In this session, we will cover our research process, initial questions to ask, where to begin your research, best practices for verifying information, and how to determine if a country is high-risk or low-risk for admission. We will address challenges in determining eligibility. How can we track the number of students enrolled in a country? How do we ensure we do not cross any value-added-tax registration thresholds? Where do we draw the line between institutional responsibility and the students? All of these questions are necessary to ask when undertaking the complicated task of admitting internationally located students to online programs.

• Patty Milner, University of Arkansas Global Campus
• Sam Ownbey, University of Arkansas Global Campus

Navigating the Learning Landscape: TIAS' Flexible & Modular Approach
Marina I | International | Applied |
TIAS (Dutch school of business and society), emphasizes lifelong learning, encompassing automated short courses and personalized, stackable Masters' and MBA degrees through their 'James' project. Key objectives include flexibility, modularity, personalization, and efficiency to enhance the student experience without raising administrative costs. TIAS adopted Eduframe by Drieam, designed for Canvas LMS, to overcome limitations in their previous SIS. This combination empowered them to achieve their James project goals. Join our session to explore TIAS's educational vision for Continuing Education, the blend of automation and personalization, their preference for a best-of-breed approach, and the vital synergy between their website, CRM, SIS, accounting system, and LMS.

• Marijn Veijgen, TIAS School for Business and Society
• Thomas Ohlenforst, Drieam

Designing Across Borders: A Collaborative Approach to International Partnership Program Design and Impact Evaluation
Marina II | International | Applied |
This presentation will share insights from the pilot year of an 8-year partnership initiative between Ashesi University in Ghana and the University of Toronto to build public policy capacity for Ashesi University students, sponsored by an international non-governmental organization. This presentation will engage participants in a discussion of the merits and challenges of collaboration and co-creation of programming with multiple partners. By exploring program outcome measurement and the use of evaluation tools to inform multi-year planning to meet long-term strategic goals, this presentation will seek to share insights on how to translate evaluation recommendations into learning design and program implementation.

• Samantha Stevens-Hall, University of Toronto
• Lisa Morgan, University of Toronto
• Angela Owusu Ansah, Ashesi University

• International (Marina III)
  Awards Presentations | UPCEA International Program Of Excellence or Innovative Practice Award; UPCEA Global Program Award For International Partners
  

International Student Support, Advising, and Programming under the New Normal
Carlton | International | Foundational | Tag: Diversity & Inclusion
This presentation will showcase current practices in international student support and engage participants in discussion about pressing challenges. We will discuss current issues facing the field by highlighting the impact of changing demographics in international enrollment, geopolitical factors, the rising importance of mental health, and lessons learned from the pandemic. As higher education strives to address the lived experiences, expectations, and needs of international students, multiple units are pivoting to address gaps in their support services.

• Juan Mavo Navarro, University of Toronto
• Lisa Miller, University of California, Riverside
• Breeda McGrath, The Chicago School of Professional Psychology

Workshops utlize extended time (70 min) to provide deep dives for participants to be actively, tangibly engaged in their own learning via collaboration and hands-on interaction.

Aligning International Strategy to Institutional Mission, Location, and Student Population
Carlton | International | Strategic |
The role of internationalization varies across universities and can be central, complementary, or peripheral to mission and strategy. International leaders continually make cases for internationalization and seek fit. Panelists are from the same public university system, yet each will discuss how they lead strategies of alignment specific to their institutional mission, location, and student population to strengthen internationalization and raise institutional support and awareness. Topics will include leveraging your locality, internationalization at home, and programs for first-generation students. Panelists will open space for participants to share ways in which they are navigating alignment and institutional fit and strategic priority.

• Harkmore Lee, California State University, Los Angeles
• Jill Leafstedt, California State University, Channel Islands
• Kari Knutson-Miller, California State University, Stanislaus
• Debra Leahy, California State University, Fullerton 

Global Learning Designed for Today’s Learner: Contexts, Credentials, and Competencies
Carlton | International | Applied | Tag: Faculty
Higher education is facing a growing demand for alternative pathways to careers and stackable training options that capture, recognize, and validate learning outcomes, all to meet demands for graduates to be “career-ready.” Accelerated by the Covid pandemic, the rise in AI, shifts in the future of work, and amid a demographic “cliff” in the United States, the rise in micro-credentials may define the trajectory of global education, particularly a focus on career readiness. In other words, how is online and professional education leveraging or translating global education, study abroad, and internationalization into career readiness for its learners? This session will explore the intersections of global education, micro-credentials, and the future of work through panel discussion, followed by small group, facilitated conversation at tables.

• Marissa Lombardi, The Forum for Study Abroad
• Breeda McGrath, The Chicago School of Professional Psychology
• Jorge Limon, Tecnologico de Monterrey
• James Gazzard, Cambridge University