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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.
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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