American Higher Education Alliance Information

American Higher Education Alliance (AHEA) is founded with the mission to drive equity in higher education by connecting the global community through international collaboration and learning experiences. We serve those involved in academic administration, teaching and learning. And of course, students! AHEA has membership plans designed for individual faculty and academic administrators; academic departments and their students; and institutions at large. This approach offers the most flexibility and affordability to members, and enables growth based upon demonstrating our value to this audience. We’ve taken a slightly different approach to our benefits because of who we serve. Our benefits include a variety of services designed to support faculty engagement and growth, particularly for international education. From an exclusive course on COIL (Collaborative Online International Learning) and mentoring to help professors gain skills and confidence to teach online and to international students, to scholarships and grants, we want to help faculty be prepared to teach in a global classroom. We’ve also designed templates and standardized methodologies grounded in accreditation standards, or what we call Quality Assurance Measures (QAM) for course, certificate and curriculum development. And, reflective of the times, we have offerings to help institutions launch virtual exchange programs to broaden their student diversity and provide culturally enriching classroom experiences despite the inability to study abroad right now. The most unique value-added offering, though, is the inclusion of an open source, cloud-based platform with our membership. We are providing a collaboration solution to make it easy for faculty to identify their professional interests, network, get matched with project partners, and work together – no matter where they are located, what languages they speak, or what software they use on their respective campuses.