AIEA report on strategic planning dives into the history and the world of strategic planning. the Report states that strategic planning was initiated for military purposes and then gained its way to businesses. Internationalization is also mentioned and how with its growth in the U.S it is being interwoven into many of the college’s strategic plans. The report discusses an array of necessary principles that should be used to successfully implement strategic planning ideas on internationalization around campuses. Is places great importance on  follow through all the steps of the plan.

A research case study presents issues of strategy implementation on internationalization of higher education. This case discussed how different strategic planning could be in the higher education world. Unlike in the business world, there are a few different factors that disable the implementation of the correct and workable strategies in higher education. The AIEA, as well as the research study both state that unlike businesses colleges are very decentralized hence the formulation as well as the implementation of strategic plans, is often quite hard to do. It is important to note that change is still very possible with this kind of system considering the factors that need to be present are resources, communication, implementation and follow-up.

Then we have presented an example of the global strategic plan for Baruch College. It is interesting to see the Baruch college plan for internationalization. The plan encompasses all the ideas for a successful strategic plan for raising internationalization. However, it does lack of providing some important things such as where the funds will come from for this project. In the Recent news, the budget does not allocate any money to support CUNY schools for the upcoming fiscal year. Without those funds, the tuition for general students will grow even higher.

Many funds are needed for the implementation of the strategic funds, considering there would need to be more staff needed to implement and keep the program. Although students coming from different countries would be paying a higher tuition rate this may not turn out to be a good choice since affordability is the first on the list to attract students from all over the world. Baruch college does have connections with private gift givers which helped raise funds for the school when cuny started exhibiting financial problems with the state. Yet according to the reports, schools that have implemented and carried out good strategic plans for internationalization have been one of the oldest schools in the US and have connections where they are able to raise funding without relying predominantly on the state for assistance as a public institution.