Introduction -- Differing approaches to comparative and international education in schools of education -- Behind the vision, the landscape of internationalization in earlier MSU history -- Faculty to develop and explore the main channels of internationalization -- Creating and Benefitting from New Channels of International Research -- Building new channels for international development work -- The fragility of international partnerships needed to feed channels of internationalization -- Preparing the ground for channels of international content and world languages in K-12 and teacher education -- Engaging internationally-oriented students to create new channels and broaden existing ones -- Two streams less connected with the main channels of internationalization -- International visiting scholars, a source of internationalization that could exceed expectations, but often did not -- Finding enough money and support staff to feed and expand channels -- Connecting to the channels of other institutions through CIES -- Summing Up