Beloit College

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Beloit College

• Connecting the Dots Cooperating with External
  Affairs to Advance Internationalization

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Snapshot of Beloit College

• Liberal arts college established 1846
• 1,250 students
• Study abroad since 1960 now 50
• International student
• enrollments 7
• International identity and mission

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Traditional approach to international education
International Students
Study Abroad
Curriculum in some areas
Individual Faculty
CV
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InternationalizationConnecting the Dots
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Traditional Fundraising
Study Abroad Scholarships
International Week
Lecture series
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Leveraging Resources
Freeman
ACE Mini-Grant
Individual donors
Weissberg Fund
Mellon
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How did we get there?

• Vision/understanding of goal
• Encouraging student agency
• Curriculum and programming to facilitate student
  agency

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Vision
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Incremental Steps and Enhancements

• Experiment with small steps
• Use outcomes to enlist donor and foundation
  support
• Build relationships between the dots of
  internationalization, with donors and foundations

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Examples

• Cities in Transition project
• Beloit
  Quito
  Moscow
• Weissberg Program in International Affairs

2008 - 2009 Elizabeth Rhyne 2007 - 2008 Jan
Egeland 2006 - 2007 Richard J. Goldstone 2005 -
2006 Raufa Hassan al-Sharki 2004 - 2005 Anthony
Zinni
2003 - 2004 Dai Qing 2002 - 2003 Roy Gutman 2001
- 2002 Alain Destexhe 2000 - 2001 Carlos
Alzugaray 1999 - 2000 Hanan Ashrawi
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Potential Problems

• Project may not yield results
• Miscommunication
• Mismatch between donor/foundation interest and
  College
• Inadequate project monitoring and reporting
• Lack of capacity to manage projects

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Lessons Learned

• Build incrementally and leverage
• Build on what exists
• Provide evidence that investment will be used
  wisely
• Be realistic about what can be accomplished
• Create synergies rather than competition