Managing internationalisation versus managing diversity? Global imperatives and national trajectories in German and Polish universities

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Table 1. Response rates.

Email survey	Responses from International Offices (IOs)	Responses from Diversity Offices (DOs)	Overlap (answers from both IOs and DOs)	Total
German Universities (n = 75)	41% (n = 31)	32% (n = 24)	9% (n = 7)	64% (n = 48)
Polish Universities (n = 36)	25% (n = 9)	14% (n = 5)	3% (n = 1)	36% (n = 13)
Qualitative interviews			Expressions of interest	Interviews conducted
Practitioners from German Universities (n = 53)			23% (n = 12)	17% (n = 9)
Practitioners from Polish Universities (n = 59)			17% (n = 10)	10% (n = 6)

Table 2. Administrative units responsible for internationalisation and diversity.

	Respondents mentioned NO administrative unit	Respondents mentioned only ONE administrative unit	Respondents mentioned SEVERAL units or referred to cross-sectional tasks	Total
Units responsible for internationalisation
German Universities	0%	77% (n = 24)	23% (n = 7)	100% (n = 31)
Polish Universities	0%	33% (n = 3)	67% (n = 6)	100% (n = 9)
Units responsible for diversity
German Universities	0%	50% (n = 24)	50% (n = 24)	100% (n = 48)
Polish Universities	46% (n = 6)	31% (n = 4)	23% (n = 3)	100% (n = 13)

Table 3. Number of staff working in International Offices (IOs) and Diversity Offices (DOs).

	∅ number of staff (FTE) working in IOs	∅ number of staff (FTE) working in DOs	Relation IO staff / DO staff
German Universities	20.9 (median 13,8)	6.2 (median 6,0)	3.4 : 1
Polish Universities	13.4 (median 13,0)	1.7 (median 0)	7.9 : 1
	∅ number of students, domestic and international, per employee (FTE) in IOs	∅ number of students, domestic and international, per employee (FTE) in DOs	Relation staff per student in IOs / staff per student in DOs
German Universities	1338 (median 1079)	4206 (median 3333)	3.1 : 1
Polish Universities	1851 (median 1881)	8368 (median 6195)	4.5 : 1

Table 4. Vice rectors (VR) or vice presidents (VP) responsible for internationalisation and/or diversity.

Email survey	Respondents mention a VR/VP responsible for internationalisation	Respondents mention a VR/VP responsible for diversity	Respondents mention a VR/VP responsible for BOTH internationalisation and diversity
German Universities (48 respondents)	81%	73%	25%
Polish Universities (13 respondents)	77%	23%	8%
Internet research	There is a VR/VP with explicit reference to internationalisation	There is a VR/VP with explicit reference to diversity	There is a VR/VP explicitly responsible for BOTH internationalisation and diversity
German Universities (n = 75)	73%	57%	21%
Polish Universities (n = 36)	58%	0%	0%