Mapping Internationalization 2016: Updates, Improvements and What We Hope to Learn

A lot can change in five years. Especially when it comes to campus internationalization.

ACE’s Center for Internationalization and Global Engagement just launched the fourth iteration of our Mapping Internationalization on U.S. Campuses survey, which will build on data we collected in 2001, 2006 and 2011. The purpose of the Mapping study is to understand the landscape of higher education internationalization in the United States at a particular moment, and also to monitor trends and gauge progress.

Although we have a few months of data collection and analysis ahead of us before we’ll know definitively what has changed in the last five years, the process of revising the survey was revealing in and of itself. To maintain the integrity of the data and allow longitudinal analyses, we need to keep a good portion of the survey questions the same over time. But there is also room for some level of modification in order to address new issues and facets of internationalization that have emerged in recent years – and remove questions that are no longer relevant.

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