Global Partnerships

1) Meet with GPIE staff to discuss tentative form and scope of the international relationship and activities.

Topics for discussion may include:

• Program destination and design compared to existing MOUs and partnerships
• Reciprocity (imbalance of exchange participants)
• Safety
• Academic scope (discipline specific vs. university wide)
• Sustainability
• Program Administration
  • Student Exchange (responsible parties for faculty leadership, recruitment, application processes, course equivalencies, etc).
  • Faculty & Staff Mobility (salary, support, housing, transportation, living expenses, hosting, logistics, etc)
  • Other activities (resources, expectations, and responsibilities)

2.) Submit a brief memo to GPIE that includes the following:

1. A brief description of partnership (a paragraph)
2. Signatures of Department Chair/Unit Head and Dean/Vice Chancellor

3.) Obtain the template MOU from GPIE and finalize a draft agreeable to all parties. GPIE will assist in editing the memorandum for individual programs that deviate from the standard template. MOU versions that deviate from the template must be approved by University Legal Counsel and GPIE before signing.

4.) Obtain appropriate signatures for final MOU. MOUs will be signed by the UNCW Provost, or his or her designee, and the designated authority of the partner institution.

5.) Two originals of MOUs will be signed. One will be kept on file at GPIE. The other will be sent to the partner institution. Copies may also be kept on file in the main offices of the units that initiated the MOU

• Number of participants on a program over the last five years.
• A significant imbalance on any exchange agreement.
• A lack of responsiveness from the foreign university international or academic office
• Lack of support for our students in securing housing, appropriate classes, and providing orientation.
• Recommendation from the appropriate UNCW units originating the program.

The staff of the Global Partnerships and International Education, in cooperation with the appropriate academic unit, as needed, will recommend program termination. Programs will be recommended for termination if one or more of the bulleted conditions on the Renewal tab exist.

Documents pertaining to the termination of a program will be signed by the UNCW Provost or his or her designee.

GPIE will keep the International Programs Advisory Committee apprised of Establishment and Termination of MOUs.