Meeting about the SIETAR conference
10/19/04
Audience?
departments of companies
School systems
Consultants already hired by a company, attempting to address concerns they find
Theme: bureaucratic structures resistant to change
Question to be explored: where do I start to attempt to impact this bureaucratic structure toward intercultural?
Issue: internationalization across U units, depts., faculties
Specific – School of Education
Stakeholders:
-- must break down to smallest units with distinctively different interests
Students
int’l fields
non-int’l fields
graduate
undergraduate
Faculty
interested
disinterested
tenured (who are expected to include international component in courses)
Staff
Administrators
dean
Board of Regents
DGS
Dept. Chair
U President
Parents
[Community]
Employers
int’l companies
Case for working out the process
-- we are to present an example
Exercise is for them to develop a case through the process (of stakeholder analysis)
Task: flesh out list of stakeholders into specific divisions/units
-- clarify if it is specific enough to determine power/interest
I send out info to engage us in blogging about this until next meeting
Step 2: establish those with most power/interest
Discussion at next meeting to do mapping with paper & post-it notes; then we enter into software to develop the map
Lynn Anderson at Global Campus is presenting in a Brown Bag on this topic (first week of Nov)
Possibly focus in on curriculum integration – away from the more general internationalization
-- we may be able to demonstrate the weakness of not engaging in this process with the Bush Grant process
Establish list before next meeting; at Karen’s office 55 Humphrey Center (5-8045) on Friday 10/27 at 4-6 – we will be mapping on wall, then into software, at that meeting
-- includes connecting the parties by their influences on one another
Advocacy includes stakeholder analysis, building coalitions, etc. – must comment on the importance of analysis
Framing the issue/problem to build coalitions
Exercise is to be partially done, in that it will include stakeholders, some of the elements of process, etc.