About
Mission
The Center for International Education (CIE) provides innovative ways for students, faculty, staff and members of the wider community to live, study and work in our interconnected world.
Vision
- Influence people’s lives beyond the boundaries of the classroom, in Wisconsin and throughout the world.
- Stimulate society by developing in students a sense of purpose as well as heightened intellectual, cultural and humane sensitivities.
- Foster diversity in all of its definitions, including who we are, how we think, and what we do.

In pursuit of its mission, CIE engages in the following activities:
- Recruit, admit, retain and graduate international students
- Provide a diverse portfolio of high-quality, safe and affordable international academic opportunities
- Facilitate a strategic array of international institutional partnerships
- Provide services to employ and retain highly qualified foreign national faculty and researchers
- Support faculty and staff engagement in a culture of campus internationalization
