Enable Western's Capacity for Global Success
In our increasingly connected world, there are more opportunities than ever to harness global engagement for our collective benefit. For Western to successfully engage on the global stage, we need to strengthen our foundation and capacity here at home.
We will:
- Empowering Western International to support global engagement activities including outbound and inbound missions, partner stewardship and advancement of consular/embassy and trade commission relationships.
- Developing a suite of global engagement grants that initiate new global partnerships whose success and growth is mapped and tracked through Western International.
- Streamlining international partnership application and reporting processes.
- Leveraging the Centre for Teaching and Learning to support innovative teaching, global instruction and the development of global and cultural competency micro-credentials.
- Building the infrastructure for in-person and digital global hubs and spaces to advance international teaching, research and partnerships.
- Embedding internationalization into the fabric of Western University, including our systems, policies, processes, decision-making, resource allocation, teaching, research, community engagement and relationship building.
- Positioning Western’s faculty, scholars and students as leaders and key contributors within international higher education bodies.
- Building our name recognition and reputation around the world through a marketing strategy to highlight signature international programs, partnerships and collaborations.
- Strategically participating in global signature events as speakers and thought leaders.
Some measures of progress
- Convene a Global Engagement Working Group, chaired by the Vice-Provost International, that brings research, advancement, recruitment, academic programs and government relations to advise on global engagement initiatives.
- Develop dashboards to map, track, analyze and report institutional global activity and data, including partnerships, publications, grants, collaborations and student and faculty data.
- Utilize the Centre for Teaching and Learning to increase the number of workshops and participants who received international pedagogy training.
- Implement scalable, integrated technology solutions that enable education, research and the operating models to achieve our global engagement goals.
- Track and grow the number and quality of international conferences that Western hosts or in which Western researchers participate.
