Managing across geopolitical borders: oversight of international branch campuses - Kevin Kinser and Jason E. Lane
1. Kevin Kinser
Jason E. Lane
Cross-Border Education Research Team
Institute for Global Education Policy Studies
State University of New York, Albany
2. Co-led by Jason Lane and Kevin Kinser
5 Graduate Research Assistants
Founded in 2009
Visited more than 40 IBCs in 12 countries
Surveyed more than 80 IBCs.
www.globalhighered.org
Up to date list of IBCs and Ed. Hubs
Annotated bibliography on IBCs
Updates on our activities/publications
3. an entity that is owned, at least in part, by a foreign education provider;
operated in the name of the foreign education provider; engages in at least
some face-to-face teaching; and provides access to an entire academic
program that leads to a credential awarded by the foreign education provider.
Number of IBCs
1995 2006 2012
15 82 182
• 13 import/export countries
• Institutions flow in all directions
10. No Transfer
Transfer with Restrictions
Transfer without Restrictions
12. Wholly owned subsidiary model:
Complete control of the home campus
Financially separate entity
Branch partner relationship model:
Home campus controls academics
Shared/split responsibility for finances &
infrastructure
Extended campus model:
Oversight through existing mechanisms
Enrollment rather than revenue based
accounting
13. Faculty employed by branch or home
campus
Related to the authority granted to the branch
Employment laws, visas, pay/SOL
Full time versus part time faculty
Type of program and availability of local faculty
Integration into home campus academics
Contingent faculty or U.S. system analogy
Members of home campus academic
14. Mix of internal and external, home/branch
authority
Initial program approval vs Maintaining program
quality
Various models
Home (or Branch) administrative supervision
“One University”
Autonomous entity
Global office
15. Foreign Educational Outposts
Foreign owned subsidiaries
Strategic Alliances
Outreach offices
Study abroad sites
Offshore research and lab locations
16. MUN MIU
Academic Engagement
MUD SMU
MMU
AUA
Partnerships
18. Cambridge, Oxford, Cape Town,
Paris Sud XI Stellenbosch,
Western Cape
Postgraduate
Diploma
19. Global Phenomenon, country specific
features
Great diversity in types in oversight and
management arrangement
Locus of control in defining and
maintaining quality
FEO organizational diversity needs further
clarification