This Friday, April 18th, the International Business Center at Michigan State will be holding a workshop in Madison, Wisconsin, as part of the educational effort. The On the Road workshops are an extension of the flagship International Business Institute for Community College Faculty (IBI) which was offered in East Lansing, Michigan, from 1995 to 2015. The IBI’s goals are to provide participants with the knowledge, experience and resources they need to internationalize general business courses and/or develop specialized international business courses at the two-year college level.
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The Michigan State University International Business Center is pleased to introduce a new resource that is now available on ºìÌÒÊÓƵ – the 2015 Nationwide Benchmarking Report on International Business Education at Community Colleges. This resource can be found in the , which features resources related to Community College programs, syllabi, conferences, , and more. The delves into a variety of factors related to international business education in the and aims to reveal the prevalence of international education at the Community College level.
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Over the last year or so, we’ve been working on a few different projects that we hope will make ºìÌÒÊÓƵ more useful to more people. A couple adjustments were implemented only recently, and I’m sure you’ve already noticed a few changes in your day-to-day browsing experience (the new formatting and sorting options in are my personal favorites thus far).
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In an ever-flattening world, the need for a pronounced international emphasis in education is becoming more apparent every day. Universities and larger colleges have been able to adapt to this need relatively quickly. In a , Philip Artbach and Jane Knight wrote that the focus of international activities in universities have expanded greatly over the last twenty years ranging from “traditional study abroad programs allowing students to learn about other cultures to providing access to higher education in countries where local institutions cannot meet the demand”. Much of this drive towards internationalization is motivated by profit (schools marketing internationally or promoting a new internationalized aspect of their programs) and the desire for students to study in English-speaking nations.