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About International Professors Project |
International Professors Project is a world wide organization focusing on the long-term development of new International Professors as ambassadors of global education in search of understanding and learning.
Our team of professors, fellows, and universities, using culturally appropriate methods and attitudes, works toward the goal of providing:
- university teaching; mentoring and curriculum development; disseminating pertinent data and research; global collaborations and alliances.
- cultural sophistication and background needed to address global pedagogical and curriculum issues.
Our Strengths
As an independent non-profit organization, IPP has the freedom to develop a professorial network with a long-term commitment to expatriate instruction in developing countries. IPP is a respected career path in its own right as an international organization composed of a faculty of academics. IPP recruits its professional staff and expatriate professors from amongst new graduates, mid-career switchers, early retirees, and emeritus professors.
International Fellows and Professors assist development and focus on culturally appropriate curriculum design, mentoring and teaching methodologies. This includes understanding and reconciling local knowledge and international and regional concerns in methodological approaches to higher education.
Thus, IPP provides the support and knowledge necessary to further higher education the world over free from bias or competing agendas.International Professors Project contributes significantly to developing international faculties in the emerging world. We are working toward a consensual definition of international higher education that recognizes the importance of culture and international relations. The outcome of this work will be international networks and cooperation fostering a body of knowledge needed to create a more harmonious interdependence as well as an international professorate.
International Professors Project continually advances the aim of providing universal access to higher education based on merit alone for all students who wish to learn and contribute back to their communities.
Our Goals
As the organization continues to grow, IPP plans to leverage its resources and expertise to create a solid foundation for internationalizing higher education by:
- Sending ambassador professors and instructors from any country to any developing countries' universities. We are developing an international higher education development network. It includes active and retired professors and professionals, graduate students and high school seniors, and an extensive database of the same demographic groups among expatriates.
- Planning to provide the funds required to fill the gap between salaries that can be paid by receiving institutions and incomes needed to cover living expenses such as health insurance, retirement plan and contributions. These supplementary incomes will be based upon the expatriate's cost of living in the developing country, local salary, and benefits structure.
- Beginning to assemble a network of participating universities (University Affiliates) and regional headquarters to foster and welcome the International Professors. The network will also direct culturally appropriate research in curriculum design, mentoring and pedagogical methods, dedicated to the formation of an international perspective and standard.
- Collecting and disseminate relevant data, thereby furthering the academic study of cross-cultural university-level teaching.
- Allowing IPP Fellows to supervise and study their pedagogical experience from within their own fields of expertise in order to develop the full potential of this career. Fellows and Professors will work towards internationalizing higher education teaching methods, curriculum design and mentoring throughout the developing world.
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