Multinational Colleges and Universities

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 fiftyyears and discusses some of the major management and leadershipchallenges associated with creating and sustaining IBCs. 2. Strategies for Managing and Leading an Academic Staff inMultiple Countries 19 Rebecca Hughes Faculty are a critical component to the success of the academicbranch campus. In an environment where academic quality isconstantly in question, the management and leadership of theacademic staff are important, particularly when that staff isspread across multiple geographic locations. 3. Institutional Ethos: Replicating the Student Experience29 Cynthia Howman Wood A common criticism of IBCs is that they cannot recreate thestudent culture of the home campus. While this is true, some IBCshave gone to great lengths to not only create a comparable culturefor their students, but also to integrate their students into theculture of the home campus. 4. Identifying Fit of Mission and Environment: Applying theAmerican Community College Model Internationally 41 Mary S. Spangler, Arthur Q. Tyler Jr. This chapter discusses the exporting of the American communitycollege model and the importance of identifying a good "fit" withlocal partners. 5. Multinational Quality Assurance 53 Kevin Kinser This chapter highlights the dilemmas facing traditional modelsof quality assurance in a global environment where higher educationinstitutions can and do cross geopolitical borders. 6. Operational Considerations for Opening a Branch CampusAbroad 65 Lawrence M. Harding, Robert W. Lammey This chapter provides specific advice for how IBCs cannegotiate entry into a foreign legal environment and operatesupport systems that can coordinate the management operations onmultiple campuses. 7. The Cross-Border Education Policy Context: EducationalHubs, Trade Liberalization, and National Sovereignty 79 Jason E. Lane, Kevin Kinser Policies for importing and exporting international branchcampuses are increasingly being formalized, with a number ofcountries explicitly encouraging educational trade as an economicdevelopment goal. 8. Selected Resources and Bibliography 87 Cross-Border Education Research Team (C-BERT) This chapter provides an annotated bibliography of resourcespertaining to IBCs. INDEX 109