International Professors Project

Our Vision and Mission:

Our Vision

Is the internationalization of higher education in the developing world by the utilization of expatriate scholars in the academic community and the establishment of a new professor. IPP scholars are unattached to locale, informal, operating with a technology and social-networks driven global channel for flows of academics, ideas, research, program designs for curriculum, mentoring of graduate students, new instructors, and professors in the ways of becoming a professor.

Our Mission

Is to enhance international and regional perspectives of developing and developed world universities, while meeting the developing world's need for professors and instructors. Encourage the exchange of professors for international development throughout the world creating global alliances. Use website IT platforms, tools and other technologies to build a database to assist teaching careers and encourage collegiality between and among expatriate and local professors.*

Is to spread internationalized and culturally attuned university perspectives within IPP's participating schools and academics.

* We use an evolving global network to determine our philosophy, theory, and policy for a highly interconnected web of academics, expatriate professors, post doctorates, independent scholars, and graduate students. The project's growing memberships is both internet-driven and informally networked to provide global professors, information, ideas, and knowledge channels: we are poised to share our ideas, information, and knowledge of country and regional variations in teaching, learning, research, and living.

Who We Are

International Professors Project is an 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, 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 the developed world to those developing countries and their universities. As a part of this process, IPP assigns young International Instructors to universities in their homelands - creating a global professor.

Planingto 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.

Beginningto 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.