CENTRE FOR HIGHER EDUCATION INTERNATIONALISATION (CHEI) 2020 OVERVIEW - Università Cattolica
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CENTRE FOR HIGHER EDUCATION
INTERNATIONALISATION (CHEI)
2020 OVERVIEW
THE CENTRE
The Centre for Higher Education Internationalisation was founded in 2011 at Università Cattolica
del Sacro Cuore, and located on the Milan campus. It was the result of intuition and forward
thinking by a group of key scholars, such as the late Tony Adams, Professors Hans de Wit and
John Hudzik, together with the Director of Global Engagement and International Education, Edilio
Mazzoleni. Its founding members started conducting research from this central position in Europe
and set up one of the first PhD tracks in Internationalisation of Higher Education, in collaboration
with the University’s PhD schools in Education and Foreign Languages.
Director: Amanda Murphy, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, Italy;
Associate Director: Fiona Hunter, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, Italy.
Academic Board
Chair: John Hudzik, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA;
Vice-Chair: Simonetta Polenghi, Università del Sacro Cuore, Milan, Italy;
Hans de Wit, Boston College, Boston, USA;
Stephen C Dunnett, State University of New York at Buffalo, NY, USA;
Fiona Hunter, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, Italy (ex officio);
Elspeth Jones, Leeds Beckett University (Emerita), Leeds, UK;
Betty Leask, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia;
Mario Maggioni, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, Italy;
Francisco Marmolejo, Education Advisor, Qatar Foundation, Doha, Qatar;
Amanda Murphy, Director of CHEI, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, Italy;
Christopher Ziguras, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia.
Afiliated faculty Raul Caruso, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, Italy; Francesca Costa,
Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, Italy; John L Dennis, Università Cattolica del Sacro
Cuore, Milan, Università degli Studi di Perugia, and the Umbria Institute, Italy; Cinzia Di Dio,
Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, Italy; Jeanine Gregersen-Hermans, Zuyd University of
Applied Sciences, the Netherlands; Karen M Lauridsen, Aarhus University, Denmark; Catherine
Montgomery, Durham University, UK; Rosalind Latiner Raby, California State University,
Northridge, USA; Craig Shealy, James Madison University, Harrisburg,
VA, USA; Helen Spencer-Oatey, University of Warwick, UK; Ly Tran, Deakin University,
Melbourne, Australia; Hiroshi Ota, Hitotsubashi University, Kuniachi City, Japan; Christof Van Mol,
Tilburg University, the Netherlands.
Educational Developers
Barbara Bettinelli, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, Italy
Jane Christopher, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, Italy
Francesca Costa, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, Italy
Karen M Lauridsen, Aarhus University (Emerita), Aarhus, Denmark
Olivia Mair, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, Italy
Management Board
President: Pier Sandro Cocconcelli, Rector's Delegate for Internationalisation at Università
Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Italy;
Stefano Baraldi, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, Italy;
Sara Cigada, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, Italy;
Fiona Hunter, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, Italy (ex officio);
Edilio Mazzoleni, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, Italy;
Amanda Murphy, Director of CHEI, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, Italy;
Hans-Georg van Liempd, Tilburg University, the Netherlands.
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DOCTORAL PROGRAMME
GRADUATES and ENROLLED PhD STUDENTS
CHEI currently has eight PhD graduates: Ravi Ammigan, Jos Beelen, Gabriele Bosley, Visnja Car,
Jeanine Gregersen-Hermans, Ann Hubbard, Amit Marantz-Gal and Felix Wang. Three new students
arrived in October, making a total cohort of PhD students of eleven (from the US, Spain, Italy,
Australia, Brazil and Russia).
PhD RESEARCH SEMINARS
Our two in-person Research Seminars planned for 2020 were eventually held online: Fiona Hunter
created two very successful series of online sessions with affiliated faculty and various members of
the Academic Board so that all students in the cohort (CHEI students and 15 other participants)
were able to continue with their preparation and research. Online training sessions are being offered
to 20 participants for the September-February period. The Spring 2021 seminar will again be held
online due to the ongoing health risks and travel restrictions.
We are optimistic that the Autumn 2021 Seminar can be held in person and are planning a
programme which includes events to celebrate the University's centenary which occurs this year.
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RESEARCH AND TRAINING
PROJECTS
RESEARCH AND TRAINING for academic staff in the international classroom
The professional training courses for lecturers working in English-medium Education continued
throughout 2020 despite the pandemic, and workshops are now being offered for the January-February
2021 session. New modules on intercultural competence and engaging students online have been added
to the two already offered.
Caterina Pavesi, an online learning expert from the area of ELT, joined the CHEI team of Educational
Developers in March 2020 bringing the team to six: Barbara Bettinelli, Jane Christopher, Francesca
Costa and Karen M Lauridsen, Olivia Mair and Caterina Pavesi, coordinated by Elizabeth Moffatt and
Amanda Murphy.
Workshops were held in person on the Milan, Piacenza and Brescia campuses in January, whereas the
workshops in June-July and September were delivered online (57 participants in 2020). We also provided
an ad hoc module for professors involved in a new English-taught undergraduate programme.
CHEI is participating in the third year of the Two2Tango initiative run by Jennifer Valcke from the
Karolinska Institute in Sweden. Coordinated for CHEI by Elizabeth Moffatt and facilitated for CHEI by her,
Caterina Pavesi, and, as of December 2020, Barbara Bettinelli, this scheme teams up academics from
different universities who teach international classes. 15 Università Cattolica academics have participated
in the annual programme so far (including 8 for the 2020-2021 year).
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INTERNATIONAL PROJECTS recently completed
Three projects on internationalisation in various parts of the world, particularly Latin America, RIESAL,
FORINT, EMPRENDIC - INTERCAMBIO DE EXPERTOS, closed in October 2020, as well as SUCTI, on
the training of administrative staff in internationalisation.
CONTINUING EUROPEAN PROJECTS
IMPALA This project (continuing until October 2021) is a consortium of Latin American and European
Universities working on the development of an Impact Assessment Framework for Third Mission. A
working framework has been developed and is currently being tested via 22 pilot projects in Latin
America. Fiona Hunter is representing CHEI.
SUCTI Academia A development of the SUCTI project, aimed at internationalisation for academic staff,
continues with Amanda Murphy, Jane Christopher, Jeanine Gregersen-Hermans, Karen M Lauridsen and
Dolly Predovic representing CHEI.
The first intellectual output of the project, edited by Laura Rumbley (EAIE), was published by the EAIE in
December 2020 and is available on the CHEI website. The report highlights the fact that academics are
involved in implementing strategies, but not actively involved in strategy development; that
internationalisation looks very different according to the role one plays in an institution; that clear and
sufficient internal communication about internationalisation is desired by all but rarely achieved; that
internationalisation activities should be actively promoted and the academics involved rewarded in some
way. The report acknowledges that it draws a partial picture, limited by the number of respondents from
each institution. It nevertheless asks important questions, which will be picked up in the training sessions
foreseen in the project.
The second intellectual output, currently being developed under CHEI leadership, is a manual for
academics in internationalisation matters.
INTERNALLY FINANCED RESEARCH PROJECT: Università Cattolica International Research Outreach
The Rector has commissioned a project from CHEI on the international outreach of Università Cattolica,
in view of the university's centenary celebrations in 2021. The researchers leading the project from the
CHEI community are Amanda Murphy, Raul Caruso (Università Cattolica), Christof Van Mol (Tilburg, the
Netherlands) and Christopher Ziguras (RMIT, Australia). At the current stage of the project, the CHEI
team is collaborating with the Head of Research, Prof. Roberto Zoboli, and the University Library, to
investigate international partnerships, research products and projects demonstrating the university’s
global research reach.
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CHEI's FIRST POST-DOC POSITION
Olivia Mair took up the research fellowship with CHEI funded by the Rector in September 2020.
Her research is on 'Implementing an international bachelor degree programme in an Italian
university: academics’ and students’ voices'.
Her research examines the implementation of an international undergraduate degree
programme in an Italian university, and focuses on how academic staff and students engage
with Internationalisation at Home (IaH) and Internationalisation of the Curriculum (IoC).
The aim of the research is to gain insight into the level of importance that stakeholders place on
a study programme being 'international' and how they conceptualise 'internationalisation' of the
teaching and learning experience at the start of the study programme.
In other research, Olivia Mair has drawn on data from CHEI’s English-medium Education
professional development programme and staff surveys, for studies on assessment practices in
EME and on training lecturers in multimodal communicative competence.
She is working under the supervision of Amanda Murphy and Karen M Lauridsen.
SEMINARS
2020 was a challenging year for seminars and workshops as a consequence of the rapid
transition to teaching online, which left very little time for other activities.
A workshop on course planning, learning outcomes and assessment in tertiary education was
held in January 2020, offered together with the univerity's CeriFORM research centre headed by
Prof. Renata Viganò.
CHEI sponsored part of an online course for international students (Virtual Talent Booster), on the
development of soft skills for interactive digitalised platforms used for online student-to-instructor
and student-to-student interaction. Francesca Helm (from Padova University), well known in the
field of virtual learning and exchange, delivered a module on intercultural competences and
intercultural learning through online interactions.
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PUBLICATIONS
The number of publications by the Centre’s community grew considerably. There were many contributions
to University World News, The Conversation, the EAIE's Forum, International Higher Education (the Centre
for International Higher Education, Boston), the EAIE online blog, and NAFSA's publicaions. Contributions
in these outlets came from the Academic Board members Hans de Wit, John Hudzik, Fiona Hunter, Elspeth
Jones, Betty Leask, Francisco Marmolejo, Chris Ziguras, Affiliated Faculty members John Dennis,
Catherine Montgomery, Ly Tran, Christof Van Mol, alumni Jos Beelen and Amit Marantz-Gal, and PhD
student Dolly Predovic.
The CHEI Community has also contributed articles to periodicals, book chapters, monographs and edited
books.
Jennifer Malerich’s paper entitled The Impact of Short-Term Study Abroad on Online Learners was
published in the Journal of Comparative and International Higher Education (Volume 11, Winter 2019).
Christof Van Mol (affiliated faculty) co-edited a volume in the Routledge series directed by Elspeth Jones
entitled “Education Abroad – Bridging Scholarship and Practice”, with Anthony C Ogden and Bernhard
Streitwieser, which also includes a chapter by Chris Ziguras. We are pleased to congratulate Christof Van
Mol in particular, since the book won the ASHE 2020 Council on International Higher Education Award.
Another new book in the same series, ‘Internationalization and Employability in Higher Education’, contains
chapters by alumnus Jos Beelen, and PhD student Dolly Predovic, with her supervisor John Dennis. A
further volume in Elspeth Jones’ Routledge series was co-edited by Jeanine Gregersen-Hermans and
Karen M Lauridsen (affiliated faculty): 'Internationalising Programmes in Higher Education – An Educational
Development Perspective' (2021).
Ravi Ammigan, John Dennis (affiliated faculty) and Elspeth Jones jointly published a paper in the
International Journal of Students entitled ‘The differential impact of learning experiences on international
student satisfaction and institutional recommendation’ (January 2021).
Dolly Predovic and John Dennis contributed to the EAIE 2020 Conversation Starter series with an
article entitled ‘Education, aspiration, action: solving the job skills mismatch’ (Sept 2020).
John Dennis and Ravi Ammigan wrote a post for John Dennis’ blog entitled ‘International Student
Satisfaction: A new perspective’ (October 2020).
Dolly Predovic and John Dennis also wrote a post for the same blog entitled ‘International higher
education & impact on individual student level: An evidence-based approach’ (October 2020).
Felix Wang and Craig Shealy (affiliated faculty) co-authored a chapter on a BEVI Assessment of Global
Identity in Cultural Competence and the Higher Education Sector (Springer, 2020).
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Hans de Wit and Elspeth Jones contributed a chapter to the volume “Student Affairs and Services in Higher
Education: Global Foundations, Issues and Best Practices”, published by the International Association of
Student Affairs and Services/Deutsches Studentwerk. Elspeth Jones also contributed a chapter on 'The
Role of Languages in Transformational Internationalisation' in 'Applied Linguistics and Knowledge Transfer:
Employability, internationalization and social challenges', (ed. A. Bocanegra-Valle), published in the series
Linguistic Insights, Peter Lang (2020).
"Intelligent internationalization: The shape of things to come' (Brill 2020) co-edited by Hans de Wit and Kara
Godwin, includes chapters written by alumnus Jos Beelen, 'Intelligent internationalization' and Fiona Hunter,
'Learning for all'.
Among the editors of the Springer Reference volume 'The International Encyclopedia of Higher Education
Systems and Institutions' are Fiona Hunter and Hans de Wit.
Amanda Murphy co-edited with Hugo Bowles the volume 'English-Medium Instruction and the
Internationalization of Universities' in the series 'International and Development Education' published by
Palgrave MacMillan (2020). Three chapters were written by authors from CHEI, Amanda Murphy, Karen M
Lauridsen and Francesca Costa.
The volume 'EMI and Beyond' (Open Access, published by Bolzano University Press, 2021) contains
chapters by CHEI Educational Developers Francesca Costa and Olivia Mair. A further chapter by Amanda
Murphy, 'Collaborating across Continents', explores the challenges of intercontinental academic
partnerships, focuses on an MBA in Social Entrepreneurship delivered in 13 African countries by Università
Cattolica.
Over 2020, Elspeth Jones published a series of 28 videos on Youtube of discussions with international
educators.
AWARDS AND
APPOINTMENTS
Francisco Marmolejo has been appointed Member-at-Large on the NAFSA Board of Directors.
We are proud that the outstanding research contribution of two of our faculty was recognised by the
Star Scholars Network last year. Elspeth Jones was awarded the North Star Medal of Lifetime
Achievement, the network’s premier acknowledgement of outstanding achievement and success in
transnational research. Ly Tran, affiliated faculty, was awarded the the Shining Star Achievement in
Research Award for exemplary achievements in transnational research.
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The Academic Board
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