Development of the Community College Internationalization Index

Copeland, Jacqueline M.; McCrink, Carmen L.; Starratt, Gerene K.

doi:10.1177/1028315317697541

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“…There is need to find effective tools for providing these opportunities to elevate the access for study abroad, cross-cultural training, and global engagement. Copeland, McCrink, and Starratt (2017) state that "internationalization processes were initially characterized as a component of student success … internationalization instead serves as a mechanism to student success. …internationalization is a set of methods by which to advance student success" (p. 366).…”

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Global Studies Certificates As An Instrument for Building Capacity for Community College Internationalization

Thompson

2021

JCIHE

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Community college campus internationalization is only represented in a small portion of the institutions in the U.S. Global Studies Certificates (GSC) are in an even smaller proportion of community colleges, but offers a credentialed program for curricular and co-curricular activities to be used to work with campus internationalization. This pilot study looks at 23 community colleges with established GSC programs. Building capacity for campus internationalization cannot be just a tiny effort, it must be a comprehensive effort involving administration, faculty, staff and students. Utilizing Raby’s (2012) International Education model and Schultz’s (1960) Human Capital Theory in education, GSC’s will be examined to determine the effectiveness to establish pathways for integration of campus internationalization into the mission, outcomes, and culture of the campuses examined.

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Global Studies Certificates As An Instrument for Building Capacity for Community College Internationalization

Thompson

2021

JCIHE

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“…This framework also allows institutions to assess their internationalization progress along a continuum (e.g., seeking, building, reaching, and innovating) (CCID, 2015). Copeland, McCrink, and Starratt (2017) advanced Harder (2010) and Green and Siaya's (2005) work to create the Community College Internationalization Index (CCII), which incorporates contemporary shifts in internationalization efforts. This index seeks to measure internationalization efforts at the institution level for public community colleges (Copeland et al, 2017).…”

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“…Copeland, McCrink, and Starratt (2017) advanced Harder (2010) and Green and Siaya's (2005) work to create the Community College Internationalization Index (CCII), which incorporates contemporary shifts in internationalization efforts. This index seeks to measure internationalization efforts at the institution level for public community colleges (Copeland et al, 2017). This tool allows institutions to track internationalization efforts while taking institutional context and community into account; a feature not present in Green and Siaya's 2005 instrument.…”

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Operationalizing “Internationalization” in the Community College Sector: Textual Analysis of Institutional Internationalization Plans

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Barone

2019

JSPTE

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Aim/Purpose: This paper evaluates three community college internationalization plans using quantitative textual analysis to explore the different foci of institutions across three U.S. states. Background: One of the purposes of community college internationalization is to equip future generations with the skills and dispositions necessary to be successful in an increasingly globalized workforce. The extent to which international efforts have become institutionalized on a given campus may be assessed through the analysis of internationalization plans. Methodology: We use the textual analysis tool Voyant, which has rarely been employed in educational research, being more frequently applied in the humanities and under the broad heading of “digital scholarship”. Contribution: Extant literature examining internationalization plans focuses on the four-year sector, but studies centered on the two-year sector are scarce. This study addresses that gap and seeks to answer the research questions: How do community colleges operationalize internationalization in their strategic plans? What terms and/or concepts are used to indicate international efforts? Findings: Key findings of this study include an emphasis on optimization of existing resources (human, cultural, community, and financial); the need for a typology of open access institution internationalization plans; and the fragmentation of international efforts at the community college level. Impact on Society: It is clear that internationalization at community colleges may take shape based on optimization of resources, which begs the question, how can education sector actors best support open access institutions in developing plans tailored to the local context and resources at hand? Future Research: We recommend additional use of quantitative textual analysis to parse internationalization plans, and imagine that both a larger sample size and cross-national sample might yield interesting results. How do these institutional groupings operationalize internationalization in the corpus of their plans?

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“…Table 1 displays tools suggested in current research to assess the quality of higher education through an international perspective. Copeland et al (2017) developed student development constructs related to student benefits of community college internationalisation, which reflect various activities and processes of multicultural interaction. Chavan et al (2014) suggested additional constructs of higher education service quality model by studying the expectations of eISSN: 2301-2218 Selection & Peer-review under responsibility of the Editors international and domestic students in Australia.…”

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“…institutional level (Copeland, McCrink, & Starratt, 2017). The quantitative instruments measuring internationalisation and its influence on the quality of higher education are claimed to be insufficient (Knight, 2011;Hudzik & Stohl, 2009).…”

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Student Evaluation of International Interaction and Communication Opportunities at University

Kompanets¹,

Väätänen²

2019

EJSBS

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This paper addresses the university campus environment for international interaction and communication by studying self-evaluation of local and international students. The research aims to determine which factors of the formal and informal learning environment as well as social interaction outside university influence students' quality perceptions of opportunities for international interaction and communication at university and how these factors affect student evaluations. The study developed and tested a measurement scale to assess the quality of international interaction and communication opportunities in higher education. The research is based on a quantitative survey of 200 students mainly from Nordic countries and Russia, and represent both domestic and international student perspectives. Item-by-item, factor and multiple regression methods were used for data analysis. Multicultural interaction and local community engagement are important driving factors of student quality evaluation of international interaction and communication. Multicultural interaction and worldview perspectives exchanges in class and ease of making friends with local students and international students had significant impact on quality perception of international interaction and communication for both international and local students. In order to improve students' opportunities for international interaction and communication, universities should provide their students with regular opportunities to interact with one another during social campus events, clubs, and committees as well as extracurricular multicultural events organised by stakeholders.

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Development of the Community College Internationalization Index

Cited by 8 publications

References 34 publications

Global Studies Certificates As An Instrument for Building Capacity for Community College Internationalization

Global Studies Certificates As An Instrument for Building Capacity for Community College Internationalization

Operationalizing “Internationalization” in the Community College Sector: Textual Analysis of Institutional Internationalization Plans

Student Evaluation of International Interaction and Communication Opportunities at University

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