NAFSA: Association of International Educators' 2010 Annual Conference & Expo explored the theme: The Changing Landscape of Global Higher Education. International education professionals came to learn new skills, gain new knowledge, build strategic partnerships and ensure that their institutions and organisations stay at the forefront of the field.
More than 7,000 international educators gathered in Kansas City, Missouri, to attend NAFSA's 62nd annual conference, 30 May to 4 June 2010. The conference brought together international education and student advisors, exchange programme developers, university administrators and faculty members, service providers, and others for five days of training workshops, educational sessions, networking opportunities and special events.
A browsable list of all sessions presented at the conference and downloadable handouts for some, are available on the NAFSA website.
The International Association of Universities (IAU) 2010 International Conference addressed a number of broad questions related to the concepts of ethics and values and their place in higher education, in line with the conference's theme: Ethics and Values in Higher Education in the Era of Globalization: What Role for the Disciplines?
The conference sought to address how different disciplinary approaches can enrich each other and contribute to instilling and promoting value-based and ethical higher education.
Participants debated how perspectives on these issues differ across cultures and whether the higher education community can envisage developing a global code of ethics for higher education. These and other fundamental issues were explored by keynote speakers and panellists in plenary and parallel workshop sessions.
The conference brought together institutional leaders as well as academics and researchers from all disciplines and from all countries. The aim was to compare and contrast and, most importantly, to find commonalities and bridges between the various discipline-specific concerns and challenges.
A list of presentations and participants is available to view on the IAU website.
