Future Forward: Building the Next Era of International Education

Description

At AIEA’s 2026 afternoon plenary, Chris Glass offered “hope through data” as a discipline for this moment: facing hard truths, grieving what is being lost, and foreseeing what disruption is making possible. Hope is not optimism. It is a commitment to build institutions capable of expressing international education’s deepest purposes under new conditions. Join Chris and AIEA colleagues for a strategic conversation about the deeper forces reshaping international education and how institutions can prepare for what comes next.

• Together, we will discuss practical frameworks to: see beyond headlines to the forces shaping international education’s future;
• deepen moral purpose as familiar models for international education change;
• and imagine what institutions can build next, for whom, and why.

Designed for international offices large and small, the session will connect data, moral imagination, and institutional purpose. You will leave with questions and frameworks you can use with your own team to organize for what comes next. The session will pair approximately 20 minutes of opening remarks with 40 minutes of Q&A and interactive discussion. All registrants will receive a recording of the opening presentation and materials to use with their teams. The interactive discussion will follow the Chatham House Rule and will not be recorded or shared.

Register to join the conversation here.
View Chris Glass' Leadership Perspectives blog article here.