International Education Week Resources 

Promotion

• Brand your promotional materials with the official IEW logos.
• If you don't have promotional materials of your own, download and distribute promotional bookmarks from the U.S. Department of State website.
• Organize or host IEW activities on your campus or in your community. See our list of suggested activities for some ideas.
• Tell the nation about your IEW activities. Submit information on your activities. 

Special Event Speakers

For special event speakers, request representatives from:

U.S. Department of State

Call 202.647.8411 or 202.647.7129. Also check out the State Department Careers website.

Peace Corps

Register your request on the World Wise Schools website or, for further assistance, email wwsinfo@peacecorps.gov.

National Council for International Visitors

Invite international visitors into your classroom or host them for a home-stay in a real American home.

Cultural Vistas

International exchange participants, their host employers, and Cultural Vistas staff speak on the cross-cultural experience, specific career options, and globalization. Send requests to partners@culturalvistas.org.

Articles About Community Colleges

• Bringing International Experiences to Rural Colleges
  09/11/2012 -- To prepare their students for a global economy, a growing number of rural community colleges are forming partnerships with colleges in other countries.

• Deferred Action Rules Could Lead to Increased Enrollment
  8/23/2012 - The Community College Times reports a new federal policy could lead to increased enrollment of undocumented students.

• Chinese Reporter on Assignment in N.C.
  7/31/2012 - A Chinese journalist has spent several months in Sanford, N.C., learning about Americans, American culture and especially American community colleges.

• Opportunities Expand for Partnerships With China
  05/29/2012 - Ties are strengthening between U.S. community colleges and Chinese vocational and technical institutions.

• Community Colleges Have a Major Role in Global Prosperity
  05/04/2012 - The U.S. government wants to increase international education initiatives, and community colleges have a significant role to play in those efforts.

Report

ACE Mapping Internationalization on U.S. Campuses 2012
The only comprehensive source of data on internationalization in all sectors of U.S. higher education, this series of surveys includes information on two- and four-year and public and private degree granting institutions.
 

Videos

Dr. Bill Path, President of Oklahoma State University Institute of Technology
This video highlights the perspective of an AACC member president on the importance of international education for community college graduates. Also a member of the AACC Commission on Global Education, Dr. Path is an advocate and articulate spokesperson on the importance of producing community college graduates that are both globally competent and globally competitive.

U.S. Global Competence: A 21st Century Imperative
This video  makes the case that U.S. global competence in the 21st century is not a luxury, but a necessity. Whether engaging the world, or our culturally diverse homeland, the United States' future success will rely on the global competence of our people. Global competence must become part of the core mission of education—from K-12 through graduate school.

Global Competence of the U.S. Workforce
This video features Michael Dunne, managing director of JD Power Associates Asia, Shanghai, China, who describes, from personal experience, the crucial importance of international education and global competence for U.S. business and industry.