Leading institutional pedagogies and practices tend to approach increasing international student populations from a deficit-based model, which focuses on the adaptation, acculturation, and assimilation of international students to the dominant host culture. We believe a better approach to improve international and domestic students' interaction is…

Business schools can increase their competitiveness by offering students intercultural skills development opportunities integrated into the traditional curricula. This article makes a contribution by proposing an approach to developing students' cultural intelligence that is based on the cultural intelligence (CQ) model, experiential learning…

Canadian universities and colleges are becoming increasingly ethnoculturally diverse. Two major social forces have contributed to this change: immigration and increasing enrolment of international students. Minority and international students bring their values, language, culture and educational background to our campuses, to add to and enrich our…

In response to an increasingly globalized world, universities are engaged in an ambiguous and unclear journey of internationalization for economic and political reasons, and guided by different ideologies. Universities' distinctive nature and unique characteristics give culture a prominent role in mediating the university environment. This study…

Presented is a discussion of an intercultural orientation seminar for foreign and U.S. university students at Colorado State University. This 1-day retreat is held each semester at a lodge in the Rocky Mountains. It is designed to bring together the students and community people to experience an international environment where the goal is to…

This booklet contains 18 articles by 25 authors on the topic of intercultural programming. As used here, intercultural programming is defined as the conduct of cross- or multi-cultural programs which use intercultural communication concepts to further the learning or develop the communication skills of foreign nationals in the United States and/or…

This report discusses a comprehensive plan designed in 1984 to internationalize the Illinois State University curriculum. This plan focused on four major areas: study abroad, foreign student and scholar services, curriculum development, and faculty development. Fundamental to the internationalizing process was the recognition that no serious…