Roadmap To Internationalization and Global Citizenry By Prof. Dr. Elaine Haglund
14.04.2015

Professor Elaine Haglund of the California State University Long Beach has spent six weeks at Atılım University, providing professional consultancy to the administration for drafting a “Roadmap to Internationalization”

Professor Haglund, as a well known specialist on Advanced Studies in Education, has an impressive record of teaching and consultancy over the years at the higher education institutions in the US, China, South Korea, Nepal, Morocco, Kazakhstan, Vietnam, Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, Ecuador, South Africa, Japan and Nigeria. She was the guest of Atılım family for a period of six weeks, during which:

  •  She has offered her expertise on issues of curriculum development, faculty development, excellence in teaching and internationalization.
  •  She has carefully reviewed the current situation in our university, outlined strengths and carefully worked on a roadmap directed towards achieving excellence in internationalization.
  • She worked with our International Office, got together with our international students and local ones coming back from exchange programs.
  • She has conducted a number of surveys among international students and initiated a video interview program with present and past Erasmus students by working with our ETPO staff.
  • She has taken an active part in the formation of our new International Students Association and a re-organization of our university newspaper on the parallel of internationalization prospects.
  • Additionally, she has modeled and drafted an International Education Committee for the university, which exists almost in all US universities.

Before her departure, she has completed and submitted her “Roadmap to Internationalization” document and publicized it during a farewell party  organized by the administration in her honor.  The party was well attended by many faculty and staff whom she had worked with throughout her stay at Atılım.  The photos below depict the congenial atmosphere at the farewell party.