Describes ways community colleges have used to create culturally diverse campuses, including recruiting foreign students, creating global awareness, internationalizing the curriculum, providing study abroad and faculty exchange opportunities, and involving the community. Highlights the importance of institutional commitment to the new focus on…

The development of an international education program should be approached by a community college in the same way as any other program, with consideration of the program's impact on the college as a whole. First, the college should examine its reasons for wanting to start an international education program. These may include a desire to expand…

Rend Lake College (RLC), in Ina, Illinois, has taken an integrated approach to internationalizing its college community by utilizing existing structures and funding to create six programs designed to foster global awareness and understanding. The first program offers student study abroad opportunities allowing students with 15 credit hours of…

Designed as a resource guide for establishing an international education program at a community college, this handbook provides descriptions of procedures and sample forms utilized in the establishment of an Office of International Education (OIE) at Central Florida Community College (CFCC). The first section, describes the role of the OIE in…

Designed to assist community colleges in moving from a rhetorical and general interest in international education to a practical and effective international education program, this monograph contains 11 essays which discuss ways of developing reasonably effective programs. This book contains the following articles: (1) "Lessons from the Past in…