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System-wide Academic Task Force - International University

Mission

To formulate recommendations regarding how to develop a strategy, plan, and structure to most effectively leverage, stimulate, and coordinate cutting edge international research and globally informed teaching and public engagement programs with selected partners in other countries; (2) to address strategies for building strategic international partnerships with universities and institutions, expansion of study abroad and international scholarly exchanges, and internationalization of the curriculum.

Deliverables

• An accounting of the University of Minnesota’s relative advantages - its current strengths- that could position it to become a major global/international university.
• Recommendations regarding how to build on those strengths, including success in recruiting and educating students from around the globe, to achieve the University's full potential as a global university.

• Recommendations regarding how to overcome current academic and institutional divisions to create a new synergism among scholars and students at this University who are exploring significant international issues, including how to create more globally competent faculty, staff, and graduates. 

• Recommendations regarding how to position the University to become a node of excellence in the emerging global network of knowledge production and circulation and connect more effectively with transnational research institutions.

• Recommendations regarding how to effectively integrate the international experience of undergraduate, graduate and professional degree students with international students and scholars on campus, with the relevant work that faculty are doing, and to connect them with the larger community beyond the University.

• Recommendations regarding what organizational structure would best support the above mission and deliverables

Report due: December 10, 2005

Task force charge letter from Robert J. Jones, Senior Vice President for System Administration and E. Thomas Sullivan, Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost

Task Force Cochairs Allen Isaacman, Regents Professor and Director, Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Global Change, History, CLA Ruth Okediji, Professor, Law Task Force Members Name Position, Department, College C. Eugene Allen Professor and Associate Vice President Office of International Programs, SVP/SA Ron Aminzade Professor, Sociology, CLA Michael Barnett Professor, HHH Jack Bowman Dean, School of Fine Arts, UMD Evelyn Davidheiser Associate Director, Institute for Global Studies, CLA Ian Greaves Associate Professor, Environmental Health Sciences, SPH Peter Hudleston Associate Dean and Professor, Geology/Geophysics, IT James A. Perry Professor, Fisheries and Wildlife, CNR Olivia LeDee Graduate student, Fisheries and Wildlife, CNR Karen Brown Thompson Associate Program Director, Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Global Change, CLA

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