ABSTRACT
When the University of Minnesota launched efforts in 2010 to internationalize its curriculum, Josef A. Mestenhauser challenged leaders to re-think how faculty could work across disciplines with each other to stimulate new course content and teaching methods that would transform how their students developed global and intercultural perspectives. That challenge drew on decades of experience and research documented here by Woodruff, founding director of the university’s Internationalizing Teaching and Learning initiative. She describes the resulting partnership among faculty, academic staff, and international educators and how Mestenhauser championed those in international education to lead the work in collaboration with centers for teaching and learning. This chapter provides a case study, outlining the goals and outcomes of an initiative that has given over 100 faculty members the opportunity to internationalize more than 150 courses that have reached over 18,000 students.
