International Education Leadership for the 21st Century Institution
March 26 & April 2, 2025
Members $495 | Non-members $795
Registration Deadline: March 20, 2025
Training Overview
Today’s higher education leaders face complex issues and challenges, including rapidly evolving government priorities and policies, increased levels of external and internal scrutiny, the increasingly globalized nature of academia, technological advances, as well as the need to be both nationally and globally collaborative and competitive. As leaders, we must be operationally savvy, entrepreneurial, and able to forecast future trends and issues. This is no small feat, particularly given recent trends of significant budget reductions in higher education institutions in Canada and globally.
Intended Audience
This online training is geared toward mid-managers and new senior international leaders interested in developing strategic leadership competencies to address these and other issues facing senior international higher education leaders today.
Learning Objectives
- Learned about internal and external factors influencing the management of day to day operations in IE and feel more confident in developing strategies to engage stakeholders and respond to change.
- Enhanced their knowledge of sound management and business practices, focusing on how to apply these to the international education work context with an emphasis on the value of an integrated approach, and ethical and equity frameworks.
- Grown their leadership capacity by developing expertise in affecting change, attracting resources, implementing quality assurance, assessment, and broad risk management mechanisms; be able to apply this knowledge to further support high-quality delivery of international education programs and services.
Program Delivery
Qualified instructors will guide you through two required synchronous online workshops over two weeks. Asynchronous independent learning, including readings and assignments, will also be required via CBIE’s online learning platform. Participants should expect at least 3-6 hours of independent learning plus 6 hours of virtual workshops. The final capstone project will be due approximately one week after the final synchronous workshop.
Schedule
Module 1: Wednesday, March 26 from 1:00pm-4:00pm (Ottawa time zone)
Module 2: Wednesday, April 2 from 1:00pm-4:00pm (Ottawa time zone)
Certificate of Completion
Certificates of completion will be awarded to those who successfully complete the program. To receive the certificate, participants are expected to attend all the virtual workshops listed above and actively engage in a group project in the final module of the course.
Facilitators
Kate Jennings (she/her/hers) has worked in international higher education at five institutions in three provinces in Canada over the past 25+ years. Kate is also the Founder and Principal at Jennings International Education Leadership & Training through which she works with associations, organizations, and institutions to support their international education leadership, strategic planning, business performance, and staff training needs.
Kate is the 2024 Past-Chair for NAFSA’s International Education Leadership Knowledge Community (IEL-KC), was listed in The PIE’s 50 Voices of 2023 – North American edition, and in 2021 was awarded the British Columbia Council for International Education (BCCIE) International Education Distinguished Leadership Award.
Kate and her husband, Bernd, are grateful to enjoy their home and work in the unceded traditional territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations, known to settlers as Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Kate identifies as a person with disabilities and is a strong advocate for building and supporting inclusive and accessible international education programs and services.
Sonja Knutson (she/her) began her career in international education, teaching English to newcomers in St John’s, NL, in 1993. Now retired from over two decades of leading international education at Memorial University, she has returned to her first love, teaching. Sonja volunteers as Chair of International Education Newfoundland and Labrador, a not-for-profit organization she co-founded over a decade ago, that supports provincial institutions with their internationalization efforts. In this unprecedented time for the field, she firmly believes that training, mentorship, and confident advocacy will see us through the hard years and set us up for a positive future for International Education.