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Your Name and Title: Carlos S. Huerta Jimenez - USMEXFUSION Executive Director

School or Organization Name: USMEXFUSION

Co-Presenter Name(s):

Area of the World from Which You Will Present: USA

Language in Which You Will Present: English

Target Audience(s): College/University Leadership, Faculty and Staff

Short Session Description (one line): Comprehensively Internationalizing the campus with the Open-Access System for Comprehensive Internationalization Si3

Full Session Description (as long as you would like):
If the executive leadership of a HEI wishes to turn their institution into one at the forefront of preparing students for a globalized world, train staff and students to become globally competent individuals for the benefit of your country, be a place of national and international mobility for staff and students, and improve institutional quality, status and image, and meet the demands of the public, private and social sectors, Si3 is an open-access Institutional Comprehensive Internationalization system that offers a clear path to achieving these goals.
Si3 is the result of extensive research in the field of comprehensive internationalization, pilot programs and expert support. In Si3, we use the term “Institutional Comprehensive Internationalization” and we define it as the institutional, systematic and sustainable process of integrating an international and intercultural dimension into the ethos and the substantive functions of an educational institution, in accordance with the current international, intercultural and global environment, transcending the traditional notion of international cooperation, and physical mobility of individuals. The “international” dimension recognizes international and global issues in foreign countries, while the “intercultural” dimension recognizes the ethnic and cultural diversity at the international, national, regional AND local levels.
Si3 has the following components:
1. Awareness and Professionalization - there are video lectures and workshops on institutional comprehensive internationalization, its benefits, how to start, and how to progress.
2. Institutional and Community Diagnostics” - there are SWOT workshops, a graduate study and an employers, or business and industry study.
3. Institutional Comprehensive Internationalization Strategic Planning - there is CCID´s Framework for Comprehensive Internationalization which is a tool to assist in the creation of an institutional Comprehensive Internationalization profile/baseline, and an Institutional Comprehensive Internationalization strategic plan.
4. Collaborative Work among Institutions - institutional collaborative cohorts can be formed that work together on specific areas of Institutional Comprehensive Internationalization.
5. Recognition - recognition should be provided to acknowledge the foreign language skills and global competencies developed in students and personnel, and there should be institutional recognition of progress in specific areas of institutional comprehensive internationalization.

Websites / URLs Associated with Your Session: http://usmexfusion.org/en/Si3/

Biodata: Carlos Huerta, MA, is co-founder and Executive Director of USMEXFUSION, A.C. USMEXFUSION is a young Mexico-based bilingual non-profit organization that focuses on promoting and developing the institutional comprehensive internationalization of HEIs. He holds a BA in Modern Languages with an emphasis on English teaching and translation, and an MA in HEI Administration. He is co-creator of Si3, an open-access System for Institutional Comprehensive Internationalization (Sistema de Internacionalización Integral Institucional) and STEMP – Students Empowered, an open-access innovative teaching method.