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During International Education Week – Nov. 14-18 – the Gazette featured several stories on activities and initiatives helping to advance ����91���︣�����߹ۿ�'s international priorities.

Those stories include:

• : an interview with Associate Vice-Principal (International) Kathy O'Brien

����91���︣�����߹ۿ�’s launched its  in August 2015 to support its internationalization efforts. The plan’s goals include strengthening ����91���︣�����߹ۿ�’s international research engagement and creating more opportunities for student mobility through academic exchange and study-abroad programs. The plan also aims to attract high-quality international students to ����91���︣�����߹ۿ�’s and to increase international educational opportunities on ����91���︣�����߹ۿ�’s campus.

In the past year, the university has seen the number of undergraduate students participating in international exchange increase by nine per cent, while the number of international exchange students on ����91���︣�����߹ۿ�’s campus increased by 22 per cent. Several new international collaborative academic programs were initiated, including a dual-degree opportunity at the master’s level through Smith School of Business, with ESSEC Business School Paris-Singapore, a dual research degree in chemistry at the master’s level with the University of Stuttgart, Germany, and a “2 + 2” program, which will see  undergraduate students from Beijing Normal University transfer to ����91���︣�����߹ۿ�’s for the final two years of their program in the field of biology.

For more information on International Education Week activities and other campus international initiatives, visit the .