Internationalizing Research through Knowledge Creation, Mobility, and Collaboration
Fostering transnational research partnerships, promoting scholar, student and staff mobility, and leveraging global thinking to address global challenges.
Internationalization at TAMIU is a coordinated, campus-wide effort that unites people, ideas, and partnerships across borders. Guided by the Standards of Professional Practice for International Education Leaders and Senior International Officers, our work emphasizes ethical leadership, collaboration, and continuous learning.
These standards ensure that internationalization advances innovation, affordability, and excellence in every dimension of university life—linking global vision with local action. Through this framework, TAMIU demonstrates how higher education can create global learning experiences that prepare individuals and communities to engage globally and impact locally—a principle lived daily at TAMIU and throughout Laredo.
TAMIU’s global initiatives are guided by the Standards of Professional Practice for International Education Leaders and Senior International Officers, providing a professional foundation for advancing comprehensive internationalization.
These standards emphasize:
- Internationalization Expertise – Understanding comprehensive internationalization as a process that shapes teaching, research, and engagement; promoting global learning across the curriculum and co-curriculum; and ensuring ethical, lawful, and evidence-based practice.
- Leadership and Management – Providing vision and strategic direction, strengthening professional development, communicating progress, and sustaining affordable, accessible, and exceptional opportunities for all learners.
- Advocacy – Engaging local communities, empowering students and faculty, and building cross-sector partnerships that extend the reach and impact of The International U.
- Personal Effectiveness – Demonstrating intercultural empathy, ethical integrity, and entrepreneurial resourcefulness while contributing to and learning from global professional networks.
Together, these standards define how TAMIU leads and facilitates internationalization across teaching, research, and engagement—ensuring that global thinking and local impact remain central to our mission.