Successful integration of foreign faculty into Korean universities: A proposal framework

Korea is making a concerted effort to become a world­class leader in higher education and the motivations for inviting foreign faculty in conjunction with this effort are clear. However, Korean universities are competing for foreign faculty in an era of global expansion in higher education, so the success of any effort to integrate foreign faculty into Korean universities must entail more than the mere introduction of content classes taught by invited foreign faculty. Korean universities cannot afford to leave the recruitment and integration processes of foreign faculty or the potential gains to students, native professors, and the inviting institution to chance. We therefore outline a three­pronged framework that simultaneously focuses on student, faculty, and administrative considerations with the goal of not only increasing the effectiveness of foreign faculty recruit- ment and retention, but also the overall productivity of all participants in the process.