Multinational Colleges and Universities (PDF)

Dedicated to the hundreds of practitioners who work atinternational branch campuses (IBCs), this volume examines theunique challenges ICB professionals face in the leading edge ofdevelopment in the global higher education sector and how they areunlike those confronted by their colleagues on the home campus.

The volume is designed to provide readers with an overview ofthe IBC phenomenon, as well as provide practical insights fromthose directly involved in the development of multinationalcolleges and universities. Editors Jason E. Lane and Kevin Kinserof the Institute for Global Education Policy Studies at StateUniversity of New York, and begin with an overview of thedevelopment of IBCs. The first chapter, by Jason Lane, traces thehistory of such institutions and discusses various intentionsbehind their creation and the roles they play in the hostcountry.

The next two chapters deal specifically with issues pertainingto faculty and students. The second chapter focuses on strategiesfor managing and leading academic staff spread across multiplecountries.The third chapter looks at the challenges of replicatingthe student collegiate experience that exists on the homecampus.

Subsequent contributing chapters discuss the increasing interestamong developing nations to create a community college systemsimilar to that in the United States as well as the globalregulatory, legal, and policy environments.

At the end of the volume, readers will find an extensiveannotated bibliography of nearly a hundred scholarly and policywritings that deal directly with international branch campuses.This bibliography is divided into several sections to help readersnavigate the extensive listing. The sections include: General, ArabGulf, Asia, Development Perspective, Management, Quality, Students,Teaching and Learning, and Trade and Regulation. Each reading islisted only once, though many could be classified under multiplesections.

This is the 155th volume of the Jossey-Bass quarterly reportseries New Directions for Higher Education. It aroseout of the long-standing interest of the volume?s editors inunderstanding the emergence of multinational educationalinstitutions.These interests fostered the development of theCross-Border Education Research Team (C-BERT), which provided thescholarly foundation for this volume.