The Internationalization Laboratory of the American Council on Education (ACE) is an outgrowth of the Internationalization Collaborative, a group of over 80 institutions of all types that have made a serious commitment to internationalization. The Laboratory involves a small group of institutions interested in engaging closely with ACE for 16 to 20 months to address the complex issues surrounding comprehensive internationalization and assessment at the undergraduate level.

As the ACE Leadership Team you are expected to help deepen our internationalization of the campus. As such you are being charged to do the following:

• Engage the campus through departments and other forums in a discussion of what internationalization means at Cortland. A consensus will then guide our further efforts
• Review the self study written by Henry Steck. Determine if there are gaps in that information and revise the document accordingly. In your revision include an analysis that determines the strengths and weaknesses of our internationalization efforts. Then prepare a set of recommendations to the Provost by the end of the spring 08 semester. After the Provost’s response to the recommendations, you will prepare a final report due in the fall 08 semester prior to the peer site visit.
• Develop a set of desired international learning outcomes for our undergraduate students by spring 08. (Attached is a sample) These will then be submitted to the appropriate faculty governance body for review and action. The appropriate governance bodies would review and act on them in the 2008-2009 academic year.
• Develop a communication plan that keeps internationalization and your work visible to all campus constituents, and to ensure that they have adequate opportunities for input. This plan may include open forums, conversations at the department level and within governance committees.