Glocalization should be a part of UC San Diego’s internationalization strategy. Glocalization focuses on enhancing the quality of learning for local and global learner cohorts through mutual understanding and shared values at a deep level of academic and social engagement. To help prepare future generations of global changemakers, UC San Diego can: 

• Create meaningful learning experiences focused on shared areas of global and local issues including thorough participation in the activation of campus.
• Emulate recognized programs as models on how to integrate glocal work into its international higher education approach. In all these programs, both credited and non-credited, integration into and with local communities is a key facet of the program.
• Develop and maximize university physical resources both locally and globally to create engagement opportunities and support for students.  

As an institution that received the Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander-Serving Institution (AANAPISI), UC San Diego is poised to act as a hub for knowledge exchange, join research initiatives, cultural exchanges and collaborative problem-solving across geographic spaces and in collaboration with multiple populations both locally and globally. Strategies include:

• Engaging more broadly with the Association of Pacific Rim Universities (APRU).  
• Utilizing current initiatives at UC San Diego to serve as a base from which to identify possibilities for internationalization that can further support and grow this engagement. 

US San Diego’s strategic internationalization plan is anchored in its distinctive location along the U.S.-Mexico border, where the combination of proximity, shared history, and mutual interdependence creates unique opportunities for academic, research, cultural and industry collaborations. Opportunities include:

• Leveraging flagship centers, initiatives and partnerships to establish a strong foundation for programs that respond to regional and global priorities.  
• Using existing programs as foundations and models for advancing shared goals in education, workforce development, innovation and governance.
• Expanding faculty and student engagement, leveraging UC San Diego’s vision to be a destination for arts, culture, education, healthcare and innovation, and amplifying its role as a global leader in cross-border engagement.

Nothing is more glocal than health. UC San Diego Health is ranked best in San Diego and is among the nation's best in ten specialities. Additionally, UC San Diego Health is internationally-recognized leader in next generation research and innovation related to emerging medical technology, cybersecurity in health care, novel therapeutics, public health, drug discovery, and translational medicine. UC San Diego Health's facilities and patient care networks transverse the region's diverse immigrant and multicultural communities, and the capacity for increased and strategic glocalization is unparalleled. A few recommendations include:

• Utilizing UC San Diego’ recently purchased hospitals with the goal of significantly increasing UC San Diego Health’s regional market share over the next decade.
• Cultivating UC San Diego’s robust international patient services program that offers concierge specialty care for patients from around the world.
• Pursuing opportunities to run large-scale clinical trials at UC San Diego Health to allow for discoveries sparked at the bench in university labs to reach the bedside more quickly for the betterment of the world.  
• Growing and nurture research in and support for initiatives in global public health on the U.S. – Mexico border.
• Connecting across health initiatives to identify areas of strength and areas ripe for growth to expand UC San Diego’s engagement geographically.  
• Promoting the combination of excellence in academic medicine, campus strengths in AI and an ethos of interdisciplinarity and compassion as a unique value proposition for UC San Diego on the global stage.