Growing political nationalism around the world, travel bans and restrictions, geopolitical tensions, regulations and racist nativism impacting international student mobility — the need to pursue higher education internationalization with an intentional focus on equity is more critical than ever.

In a lecture framed by an emergent, equity-driven internationalization lens, Chrystal George Mwangi, associate professor of higher education at George Mason University and a leading scholar in the field of DEI and international education, will share an approach for foregrounding (in)equity in internationalization strategies, international student mobility, international higher education partnerships/research, and education abroad.

This research talk will highlight how the process, concept, and construction of internationalization can center or silence the ways universities engage globally.