UNC's Center for International Education (CIE) is the university-wide office dedicated to comprehensive internationalization for students, faculty, and staff. The CIE team develops and implements international activities that support teaching, learning, research, and global engagement throughout the university. The CIE team provides extensive (i) global learning opportunities; (ii) advice and counsel on immigration and tax regulations, and compliance for students and scholars; (iii) international partnership development and facilitation; (iv) comprehensive support for international students; (v) on-campus global programming that helps to educate campus community and develop global cultural competencies. The Intensive English Program (IEP) resides under the CIE's umbrella. It is a CEA-accredited, in-house academic language program aimed at serving diverse linguistic and cultural needs of English language learners and providing professional development training to EFL/ESL educators. IEP is a 7-level program that fuses cross-cultural immersion with focused English language instruction to create a unique and distinctive college preparatory experience to ensure the students' future academic success and career readiness.