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The II comprises several federally-funded National Resource Centers and FLAS fellowship programs. These and the other centers, programs, and initiatives located within the International Institute carry out a wide range of innovative activities in international and area studies. Many of these are collaborative and interdisciplinary activities that cross traditional intellectual and geographic boundaries.

Among the greatest assets of the University of Michigan are an informed openness to global affairs, an outstanding international faculty, and an extensive network of global partnerships. U-M's International Institute (II), established in 1993, builds upon these assets by creating opportunities for moving scholarship beyond national boundaries, and allocates resources to that end. The II promotes education in the world's languages, societies and cultures, including study abroad; helps to recruit international scholars and students to the University; and offers public outreach programs that place the promotion of an informed global perspective at the forefront of the University's mission