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ASHE International Scholars Workshop 2025

Thursday, October 9, 2025 at 9:00 AM (MDT) to Friday, October 10, 2025 at 12:00 PM (MDT)

Join Us Virtually

Since 2019, the ASHE Council for International Higher Education (CIHE) has offered an annual International Scholars Workshop for students and scholars to share their insights and experiences of maintaining a research agenda, navigating between and within various identities that could extend beyond their nationality, maintaining their well-being, and dealing with complex and politically-charged immigration and visa policies. As conveners, we recognize that these factors guide post-graduation career choices and academic career success in the United States (Peri et al., 2016; Zong & Batalova, 2018). Above all, as panelists and participants share about their experiences, struggles, hopes, and fears, the ISW opens space to hear one’s struggle as part of a larger thread; we hope and aspire for creating and maintaining this space exactly for generative thinking and healing—a collective success.

As international students and scholars, we strive to provide meaningful contributions while we also strive to survive with our legal status, our academic and career opportunities, and our well-being. Thus, we ask: How can we bring our whole selves into our scholarship, teaching, and career pursuit, in academia and in the job market? How do we provide meaningful works to humanize higher education in international context? How do we deal with the visible and invisible walls that aim to limit our success? How do we center our lived knowledge and our Othered ways of knowing to unsettle the abyssal thinking in institutions of higher education and in our scholarly fields?

To benefit from the virtual format of the International Scholars Workshop, we invite scholars, practitioners, and students from national and international contexts to participate and engage in the six sessions of this workshop as they see fit to their individual scholarly goals and career objectives. These topics are listed below in the detailed schedule and include topics relevant to student success for those early in their studies, to topics relevant to those who are on the job market, as well as early career faculty and those who are up for promotion.

Who should attend:

  • International students, international faculty, and any scholars who are interested in and who are from international backgrounds/community
  • Faculty, chairs, and academic programs to participate in this workshop as they seek for ways to better support international scholars (doctoral students, post-docs, visiting or adjunct faculty, and faculty) they work with under the unique circumstances and current political terrain

While the program is proposed under the umbrella of CIHE, it is important to acknowledge that not all international students and international faculty are affiliated with research related to international issues and topics. Hence, the recruitment for participation in this program should focus on members of CIHE, members of ASHE community, as well as diverse scholars and international scholars who are not part of ASHE community.

Learning/Program Outcomes

  1. Engage in the facilitated discussions and professional development activities with the speakers whose research centers on academic and professional success of international students and scholars.
  2. Network with other scholars from international backgrounds.
  3. Build navigational capital in the areas of graduate studies, legal constraints, and short- and long-term career advancement.
  4. Develop individual strategies of personal well-being.
  5. Become a member of the larger community that supports international students and scholars.
Credits Price
Current ASHE Student Member
Registration Ends 10/1/25 at 11:59 AM MDT
$10.00
Current ASHE Member
Registration Ends 10/1/25 at 11:59 AM MDT
$20.00
Non-ASHE Member (Guest or Expired Member)
Registration Ends 10/1/25 at 11:59 AM MDT
$35.00
Credits Price
Late: ASHE Student Member
Registration Opens 10/1/25 at 12:00 PM MDT
$20.00
Late: Current ASHE Member
Registration Opens 10/1/25 at 12:00 PM MDT
$30.00
Late: Non-ASHE Member (Guest or Expired Member)
Registration Opens 10/1/25 at 12:00 PM MDT
$45.00

Agenda

October 9
9:00 AM - 9:15 PM Day 1: Welcome & Introductions Nicholas Stroup, ISW Chair
Mary Ann Bodine Al-Sharif, ISW Co-Chair
Shinji Kastsumoto, ISW Co-Chair
Katie K. Koo, ISW Co-Chair
9:15 AM - 10:00 AM Day 1: Session #1 - Supporting Long Term Planning for Your Next Job Presenters:
Nicholas Stroup, ISW Chair
Mary Ann Bodine Al-Sharif, ISW Co-Chair
Shinji Kastsumoto, ISW Co-Chair
Katie K. Koo, ISW Co-Chair
10:15 AM - 11:00 AM Day 1: Session #2 - Broadening Horizons and Borders: Expanding Job Opportunities Beyond Traditional Faculty Roles Presenters:
Elmira Jangjou, Senior Analyst at Ithaka S+R
Kanggeon Kim, Senior Researcher at Seoul National University 
Evans Ochola, Adjunct Associate Professor/Instructional Designer at the University of Iowa

11:15 AM - 12:00 PM Day 1: Session #3 - Perspectives on Artificial Intelligence for International Students & Scholars Presenters: 
Lillian Mina, Associate Dean for Strategic Initiatives at the University of Alabama at Birmingham
Penny A. Pasque, Professor; Director of Qualitative Methods; Director of QualLab at The Ohio State University 
October 10
9:00 AM - 9:15 AM Day 2: Session #4 - Thoughtfully Navigating the Immigration & Visa Process in 2025 Presenter: 
Allison Kranz, Principal Attorney at Lodestone Legal, LLC
10:15 AM - 11:00 AM Day 2: Session #5 - Support Strategies for the International Scholar Community in This Moment of Political Instability Presenters: 
Hugo Garcia, Associate Professor of Higher Education at Texas Tech University 
Milad Mohebali, Assistant Professor in Educational Administration at University of Nebraska - Lincoln 
11:15 AM - 12:00 PM Day 2: Session #6 - Facilitated Social Presenters:
ISW Co-Chairs
CIHE Leadership

Event Chairs

Chair:

Nicholas (Nick) Stroup
Assistant Professor, Ohio University
nstroup@ohio.edu

Co-Chairs:

Mary Ann Bodine Al-Sharif
University of Alabama at Birmingham
drbas@uab.edu

Shinji Katsumoto
University of Colorado, Colorado Springs
skatsumo@uccs.edu

Katie Koo
University of Georgia
katie.koo@uga.edu

Please feel free to reach out to the event chairs with questions about the content of the event. Questions about registration or event logistics can be directed to the ASHE Staff at (202) 660-4106 or office@ashe.ws.

For More Information:

Alicia Castillo Shrestha
Alicia Castillo Shrestha
Associate Director of Conference and Events Association for the Study of Higher Education (202)925-5935

Event Information

  • Events are live captioned through Zoom. An opportunity to share how the event can be more accessible for you is provided in the registration form. For questions about accessibility, please reach out to the ASHE Staff at office@ashe.ws.
  • This workshop content will be recorded and shared with registered attendees, excluding open question and answer dialogues and breakout rooms.
  • Attendees will review and agree to the ASHE Events Code of Conduct https://www.ashe.ws/code-of-conduct) and Payment Policies (https://www.ashe.ws/payment-policies) during registration.