INTERNATIONALIZATION OF APRU UNIVERSITIES -LOCAL PRACTICES AND FUTURE DEVELOPMENTS- President Xu, Zhihong Peking University June, 24, 2004

2 Objectives of the Project To better understand how well our universities responding to internationalization and how we can share our experiences in the process of internationalization. To increase the cooperation and coordination of teaching, research and outreach activities among the APRU member universities. To increase collaboration among APRU members on such internationalization activities.

3 The Research Agenda Establishing of the research coordinating group and the research working group. Designing research instrument: university and school wide surveys Distributing the surveys to all APRU member universities Conducting data analysis Organizing the workshop

4 Terminology for the research Internationalization the international teaching, research, and outreach activities of students, faculty, and alumni at university/school Outreach non-degree teaching and consulting activities by faculty, students, or staff with domestic or foreign participants Best-practices activities which university/school thinks it does as well or better than the top national or regional universities with which it competes for students, faculty, research funds, and prestige

5 Structure of Survey: Individual School Survey Section 1: Best Practices in the Internationalization of – Present/Ongoing and Future Activities in association with Teaching,Research and Outreach. Section 2: Missions, Goals and Priorities for Internationalization – Priority,important factors and outcomes stimulated by Internationalization Section 3: International Nature of – Students: International, Exchange (In-bound/Out-bound), Total – Faculty: International Visitors, Going Abroad, Total – Alumni: Located outside of country, % current contact info

6 Structure of Survey: University-wide Survey Section 4: Best Practices in the Internationalization of – Exchange and outreach activities: Present/Ongoing and Future Activities – Outreach Activities: Present/Ongoing and Future Activities Section 5: Missions, Goals and Priorities for Internationalization – Priority for Internationalization – Important Factors for Internationalization – Outcomes Stimulated by Internationalization Section 6: International Nature of – Students: International, Exchange (In-bound/Out-bound), Total – Faculty: International Visitors, Going Abroad, Total – Alumni: Located outside of country, % current contact info

7 Data Collection University-wide Survey – RWG member ed electronic version of the university-wide survey responses to APRU ’ s RWG Co- Chairs Individual School Survey – Schools ed the results to university ’ s RWG member. – RWG member forwarded the results to APRU ’ s RWG Co-Chairs

8 Method for Choosing Best Practices Step 1: Setting criteria for evaluating best practices proposed – Innovativeness, creativity, uniqueness – Scalability, transferability – Impact, involvement – Anticipated Durability Step 2: Evaluation of best practices proposed – Scoring each practice by 1 to 7 points (1: poor, 7: outstanding) – Discussion among four independent evaluators for consensus Step 3: Selection of best practices – Choosing ones that are scored 6 and 7 Step 4: Clustering selected practices for purposes of the workshop by content analysis

9 Obtained clusters of best practices Teaching Student Research Projects Research Outreach IT Enabled Education and Outreach Integration of Teaching, Research, and Outreach

10 Data collected 132 surveys were collected. 21 universities returned the surveys. 113 surveys from schools of various disciplines 19 universities provided university-wide surveys. 500 best cases were presented in the survey data.

11 Respondents by Region

12 Respondents by Discipline

13 About the workshop In Feb , 2004, the workshop co-organized by Southern California University and Peking University was held at Peking University. 47 people representing 25 universities from South Asia, North America, Oceanic countries and East Asia participated in the workshop. 24 cases were presented as the best practices.

14 Characteristics of internationalization Institutional links with foreign universities Joint research projects Joint information and library service through INTERNET International seminars and conferences Joint programs on undergraduate students’ teaching and learning and outreach activities diverse financial resources Multiple involvement or partnerships

15 Mission and roles of universities In the case of China: 1. The rapid growth of the economy, the significant increase of family income, the joining into WTO raised a demand for higher education. 2. The nation has expected universities to be more productive in scientific research and to be more responsive to the social needs, 3. Universities have a responsibility to transmit traditional culture and values. 4. It is important for a university to be international, to be competitive, but it is also important to keep their uniqueness and diversity.

16 Future initiative Currently universities have experienced a great structure change internally and externally. System of higher education has been expending. University research has close tie with enterprises than ever before. But university also has a responsibility to not only to protect but also to transmit cultural values next generation.

17 Issues to be addressed In the process of internationalization, leading universities: * Need to keep its uniqueness or particularity Need to be cooperative as well as to be competitive What is more important is that in a multi- cultural environment, universities need to preserve cultural diversity.

18 Research Topic Regional or international cooperation in scientific research between universities become much more important than any time. Through the internationalization project, we found it is very important for universities to develop diverse academic goals. The question is in the process of internationalization, how could leading universities keep cultural diversity, and its own uniqueness as well as participate international competition and cooperation? As following up activity, I would suggest interested universities cooperatively to design a project to investigate the issue of internationalization and culture diversity.