· Promotes and supports excellence in international programming.

· Supports institutional goal of internationalizing education by proving recognition, visibility, and quality programming.

· Demonstrates the importance and significance of international education.

· Provides a mechanism for bringing together international faculty and students and U.S. faculty and students for meaningful interaction and exchange of ideas.

· Provides an appropriate vehicle for recognizing individual and institutional excellence in international education.

· Promotes scholarly research and writing in international education through its journal and newsletter.

· Promotes and supports the involvement of domestic students in international exchange.

· Augments and enhances the academic programs of the institution related to international education.

· Provides a nonpolitical and nonpartisan forum for international educators to get together for an exchange of ideas and information.

· Provides a campus focus for international endeavors.

· Encourages achievement and excellence through recognition and monetary awards on the local and international levels.

· Provides a scholarly and dignified means through its rituals and ceremonies to appropriately recognize achievement and excellence.

· Encourages and supports cooperation and coordination among the various individuals and offices involved in international exchange.

· Promotes the enhancement of services to those involved in international exchange.

· Promotes the exchange of students and scholars by connecting them with officials at other institutions.

· Encourages joint research and writing by linking international scholars throughout the world.

· Annually brings together international educators and students for an exchange of research and ideas at its annual conference.

· Provides an often much-needed link among the various institutional offices and individuals involved in international exchange.

· Enhances the status of international education on the local and international levels by honoring achievement and excellence.