International Association of Universities

Building a worldwide higher education community

Policy Statements

  • IAU adopts positions and develops Policy Statements on issues of global importance for higher education. Each Statement is the product of extensive drafting and international consultations. In recent years, the Statements have been formally adopted by the General Conference of...
  • The IAU 14th General Conference, held at the Inter American University of Puerto Rico, USA, in November 2012, approved two new policy documents: the IAU-MCO Guidelines for an Institutional Code of Ethics in Higher Education; and Affirming Academic Values in Internationalization...
  • IAU Policy Statements, listed here in chronological order, starting with the most recent Statement, are freely available for dissemination. More recent Statements have been open to endorsements by other Associations of Higher Education; all are open to comments. Affirming...