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What is Academic Integration (AI)?

Academic Integration is an initiative and priority of the UC Education Abroad Program (EAP). It is broadly defined as the comprehensive integration of EAP programs and courses into the curricula of the University of California campuses.

The two primary goals of “AI” are to (1) further engage and invest academic units in EAP, and (2) demonstrate the feasibility of, and reduce academic barriers to, participation in EAP for students in all disciplines. In addition, AI initiatives may: increase enrollment in EAP; streamline and automate work processes; highlight opportunities for underrepresented student cohorts; or help internationalize the University of California.

AI efforts can be grouped into the five categories below. Underpinning these categories, Research & Assessment activities inform and evaluate AI efforts.

  • Outreach: Engagement of academic units in dialogue about ways study abroad can be integrated into their curricula.
  • Promotion: Advertisement and advocacy of study abroad opportunities in academic venues and discipline-specific EAP publications.
  • Advising: Production of major-specific advisory materials about studying abroad.
  • Requirements: Approval of EAP courses to fulfill major, minor, breadth, and other degree requirements.
  • Bridges: Development of UC courses and training that provide a foundation for or build on study abroad experiences.

Thus, AI makes international study a more prominent, accessible, and integral component of UC curricula, helping students fit study abroad appropriately and seamlessly into their academic programs, helping advisors harmonize advising messages from academic units and EAP, and helping faculty strengthen and promote relationships with international partners whose curricula complement and supplement those of UC.

As a consequence, academic integration activities pervade EAP’s planning, research, development, academic oversight, and management efforts.

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