ABSTRACT
In 2003, a group of faculty and administrators at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) began to discuss and plan for a new more comprehensive and coherent approach to international education for undergraduates. The goal of this initiative was to produce globally competent undergraduates. We had in mind a program that would prepare our graduates as global citizens but also, and importantly, prepare them for global careers within their disciplinary major. This disciplinary emphasis refl ects the belief that, in the future, all career paths will of necessity involve working in a global context. After more than 2 years of discussion and planning and with the approval of all faculty committees and all levels of the administration, Georgia Tech launched this new initiative, the International Plan, in the fall of 2005. The International Plan has received signifi cant national recognition. It earned Georgia Tech honorable mention for the Heiskell Award in 2006 (Thompson, 2006) for Innovation in Internationalization and in 2007, it was a central piece in receipt of the Senator Paul Simon Internationalization Award by NAFSA (Schock, 2007).
