IIE's Best Practices Resource

The Best Practices Resource includes feature profiles on each of the winning programs from more than 10 years of Heiskell Awards, along with honorable mention and special recognition recipients. The extensive collection of successful models is intended to provide hands-on help to campuses as they create and expand their own intiatives. In the box at right, expand each section and click on the name of the winning campus to see profiles of the winning initiatives in each category since the inception of the Heiskell Awards. For IIENetwork Members, a special members-only section contains details on the programs' implementation.

The Andrew Heiskell Awards

The Institute of International Education (IIE) created the Heiskell awards in 2001 to promote and honor the most outstanding initiatives that are being conducted in international higher education by IIENetwork member universities and colleges. By recognizing excellence and innovation, the Institute hopes to support IIENetwork members in their endeavors and to signal a new and important role for international education on campus.

IIE's Heiskell Awards showcase the most innovative and successful models for internationalization of campuses, study abroad, and international partnership programs in practice today. We are particularly interested in highlighting initiatives that remove institutional barriers and broaden the base of participation in international teaching and learning on campus. 

The goals of IIE's Heiskell Awards are:

  • To foster innovative ideas that will help international education professionals create and sustain new opportunities for students and faculty
  • To bring international education to the forefront of education policy
  • To stimulate public awareness of the benefits of study abroad and international educational exchange

The 2013 Andrew Heiskell Award Winners

CATEGORY: Internationalizing the Campus

Advancing curriculum development, fostering international opportunities and creatively integrating international students into university life.

Winner: Susquehanna University, Global Opportunities (GO)


CATEGORY: Study Abroad

Providing innovative programs and services to make study abroad more accessible to a broader student population.

Winner: Wake Forest University, Project MAAP (Magnolia Abroad Access Program)
Honorable Mention: University of Pittsburgh, The Vira I. Heinz Program for Women in Global Leadership


CATEGORY: International Partnerships

Recognizing strategic, comprehensive and innovative international partnership efforts.

Winner: St. Cloud State University, Partnership with Universidad de Concepción
Honorable Mention: University of South Florida, Ghana Scholars Program


CATEGORY: Internationalizing the Community College

Creating innovative programs and services, including study abroad, to make international opportunities accessible to community college students. (IIE and AACC members are eligible to apply.)

Winner: Pitt Community College, Int'l Education Travel Scholarship (IETS)


SPECIAL RECOGNITION: Internationalizing the Professions

The 2013 Andrew Heiskell Awards for the first time recognize several higher education institutions for their innovative approach to globalizing the professions.

Heiskell Awards
IIE will present the annual IIE Andrew Heiskell Awards at a ceremony in New York City on March 22, 2013, as part of the Annual Best Practices in Internationalization Conference.
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