Multinational Colleges and Universities: Leading, Governing, and Managing International Branch Campuses: New Directions for Higher Education, Number 1 (Paperback)

EDITORS'NOTES 1
Jason E. Lane, Kevin Kinser

1. Global Expansion of International Branch Campuses: Managerial and Leadership Challenges 5
Jason E. Lane
This chapter outlines the growth of IBCs over the past fifty years and discusses some of the major management and leadership challenges associated with creating and sustaining IBCs.

2. Strategies for Managing and Leading an Academic Staff in Multiple Countries 19
Rebecca Hughes
Faculty are a critical component to the success of the academic branch campus. In an environment where academic quality is constantly in question, the management and leadership of the academic staff are important, particularly when that staff is spread across multiple geographic locations.

3. Institutional Ethos: Replicating the Student Experience 29
Cynthia Howman Wood
A common criticism of IBCs is that they cannot recreate the student culture of the home campus. While this is true, some IBCs have gone to great lengths to not only create a comparable culture for their students, but also to integrate their students into the culture of the home campus.

4. Identifying Fit of Mission and Environment: Applying the American Community College Model Internationally 41
Mary S. Spangler, Arthur Q. Tyler Jr.
This chapter discusses the exporting of the American community college model and the importance of identifying a good "fit" with local partners.

5. Multinational Quality Assurance 53
Kevin Kinser
This chapter highlights the dilemmas facing traditional models of quality assurance in a global environment where higher education institutions can and do cross geopolitical borders.

6. Operational Considerations for Opening a Branch Campus Abroad 65
Lawrence M. Harding, Robert W. Lammey
This chapter provides specific advice for how IBCs can negotiate entry into a foreign legal environment and operate support systems that can coordinate the management operations on multiple campuses.

7. The Cross-Border Education Policy Context: Educational Hubs, Trade Liberalization, and National Sovereignty 79
Jason E. Lane, Kevin Kinser
Policies for importing and exporting international branch campuses are increasingly being formalized, with a number of countries explicitly encouraging educational trade as an economic development goal.

8. Selected Resources and Bibliography 87
Cross-Border Education Research Team (C-BERT)
This chapter provides an annotated bibliography of resources pertaining to IBCs.

INDEX 109