Academic Integration of International Experience:

The Univ. of California Academic Integration Strategic Initiative

Ann Marie Plane,

Faculty-In-Residence, UCEAP

History of UC Academic Integration Efforts

• Original vision (1962-1989)

University of Bordeaux 1962

Asia: Valued Partnerships since 1964

Growth, diversity of programming: Egypt, 1980s

Ambitious AI program launched (1990s-2000s)

Institutional Complexity– 10 autonomous campuses– over 234,000 students – thousands of faculty

• $$$$$$$$$$$$/TIME/STAFF– Scott D. Cooper et al. in, Internationalizing Undergraduate Education,

ed. Lynn Anderson( Univ. of Minnesota, 2005)

• 50th Anniversary Year: 2012

Current state of UCEAP

• 4700 students in 2011-12

• Over 250 programs, 39 countries

• Recent reorganization

• Shifting relationship with individual Univ. of California campuses– Faculty-led programming

Student satisfaction high:

• Adam Noily, UCB | Peking University, Beijing"EAP has been an integral part of my college education. It has complemented my studies in a way that no course at my home university ever could....As far as my emphasis in the politics and economics of China is concerned, any attempted study of this subject without the firsthand experiences offered by EAP would have been pure folly.”

Active Research Program

• Regular surveying; • Student, Parent satisfaction; • Student Focus Groups (2011)• Academic Outcomes Survey• http://eap.ucop.edu/ or contact UCEAP Dir. of

Research, Gordon Shaeffer– gshaeffer@eap.ucop.edu

50th Anniversary Strategic Goals:

1) Best Business Practices

2) Academic Excellence

3) Study Abroad for All

• Strategic Initiatives for the last 18 months– Academic Intergration working group

Academic Integration working group

• Convened April 2012– Staff/Faculty representation-each campus– Systemwide and campus co-leadership– Will sunset June 2014

• Will recommend overall AI structure– Focus on measurable results– Consult on Acad. Outcomes survey design

Acad. Outcomes Survey 2011

Results: Core Major Courses

• About half the respondents intended to pursue Core Major Courses (CMCs) through their UCEAP program – 51.7%

• 80.9% who intended to enroll in CMCs did so• Some who didn’t intend to also enrolled in CMCs

Results: Major Elective Courses

Results: Additional Academic Consequences of Study Abroad

Response/prompt Yes

"Add a new major to my existing major(s)" 6%"Change my major(s)" 4%"Add a new minor" 10%"Change my minor" 2%"Pursue specific academic research related to my major(s) or minor(s) upon return" 28%

"My participation in UCEAP contributed to my decision to...

Results: Past Participants Recommendations to UC

Students

In your major(s) 88%In your minor(s) 54%In other academic disciplines 90%Interested in doing academic research 52%Interested in doing an internship 51%Interested in pursuing general elective or breadth requirements 80%Interested in pursuing language requirements84%

Given your experiences with UCEAP, would you recommend UCEAP's programs to UC students:

AI Working group3 pilot initiatives:

1) Internationalizing Engineering– Engineering summer: foundations– Engineering summer: research/internships– Major course articulation

• Mechanical, Computer Engineering

2) Useable Information (web updates)3) Course Approval Data Collection

– Capture student successes (my EAP)– Standing Dept/College agreements– Track via Registrars’ degree audit systems

Conclusion:

• Audience comment on experience with similar initiatives

• Problems, prospects, successes?

• Measures of effectiveness?