Our Work: Impact and Innovation

On February 20, 2014 the Institute of International Education’s Center for Academic Mobility Research held a one-day workshop in the Washington, DC offices on best practices in gathering, interpreting, and using student mobility data. This was the first Project Atlas workshop held in the United States, having been previously organized in Kenya, Mexico, and Brazil. The goal of the workshop was to bring together U.S. and international professionals in higher education to discuss issues around data-driven decision-making about internationalization at the institutional, national and policy levels. 

The workshop included over 50 participants from the United States and eight other countries, from various sectors including researchers, university administrators and colleagues from the diplomatic community. The workshop served to strengthen the capacity of U.S. and global higher education institutions, government agencies and non-governmental organizations to build comprehensive data collection mechanisms for collecting and utilizing student mobility data to inform policy, research, and enrollment management practices. 

Workshop facilitators included Rajika Bhandari, Christine Farrugia, and Raisa Belyavina from IIE as well as five Project Atlas and research partners. A special thank you to Nichole Johnson’s team for their support with the event.