The initiative is cost-effective or realizes a profit. The initiative builds upon expertise. The initiative fosters synergy among the many areas of international activity at the University. The initiative is sufficiently flexible to adapt to the world's ever-changing educational and economic profiles. Whether thy involve undergraduate or graduate students, American or foreign faculty, short or long-term study abroad or here at home, all of these efforts advance important global interests of the United States . . .
International education is an investment in the nation's future.
Provide Radford University students with the competence to live and work within a diverse and rapidly changing world. Attract and retain an internationally diverse undergraduate and graduate student body. Enhance opportunities for international development of Radford University faculty. Position Radford University to become a leader in international education beyond its campus borders. The stakes involved in international education are at once that simple, that straightforward, and that important.