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9 Addressing Business Needs
9 Addressing Business Needs
Pages 182-195
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provides two-year seed grants. In contrast, the CIBER Program is designed to create and sustain international business curricula and faculty at the nation's top-ranked business schools.
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It begins with a discussion of mechanisms in the CIBER Program to facilitate coordination and collaboration and highlight accomplishments, featuring reported CIBER activities in key areas, such as homeland security, foreign languages in the business curriculum, knowledge about international trade and competitiveness, and institutional capacity. The chapter then moves to the BIE Program and discussion of the available evidence related to its accomplishments in the areas of infusing foreign languages and area studies into the business curriculum and improving outreach and dissemination.
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A committee of ED program administrators and CIBER representatives oversees the website. CIBERweb provides easy access to all past and current CIBER activities, organized into six broad areas: research, foreign language development, business outreach, faculty development, academic program development, and study abroad (University of Connecticut, 2005)
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Information from a study that compared CIBER and non-CIBER business degree programs and from the committee's site visits is also included. The program highlights presented relate to homeland security, foreign languages in the business curriculum, an enhanced body of relevant knowledge, and improved institutional capacity.
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The presence of the strong CIBER network, which facilitates information sharing, may have played an important role in this rapid response to a new and unexpected national priority. Foreign Languages in the Business Curriculum A recent comparative study of CIBER and non-CIBER business degree programs indicates that CIBER grants have contributed to infusing foreign languages into the business school curriculum.
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Brigham Young University offered 11 languages, the highest among the CIBERs. Faculty development in teaching foreign languages for business pur poses. Many CIBERs offer workshops preparing foreign language faculty to teach business Chinese, business Portuguese, or other languages.
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For example, the University of Washington offers the Global Business Breakfast Series for local businesses in partnership with the World Affairs Council, and the University of Hawaii partners with the Pacific Basin Economic Council, the Hawaii World Trade Center, and various government agencies to convene an annual Hawaii Business Forum each spring. The University of Florida CIBER, with only a small
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. A representative of AIBER illustrated the way in which graduate placements enhance knowledge of international trade and competitiveness issues using Paul Gaspari, a graduate of the Temple University CIBER's international business program, as an example (Birch, 2006)
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provides some additional evidence that CIBER funding has contributed to improved institutional capacity and quality in international business education. MBA programs at schools with a CIBER were more likely than those without a CIBER to require international business courses, offer advanced level international business classes, and, as discussed above, offer a greater variety of languages (see also Chapter 5)
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. Infusion of Foreign Languages and Area Studies into the Business Curriculum The assistant director of the Texas A&M University CIBER reported that BIE grantees, like CIBERs, frequently emphasize building institutional capacity and quality in international business education (Murphrey, 2006)
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Course Development Over 80 percent of respondents said BIE funds were used to support faculty in revising existing courses or creating new international business courses. Survey respondents reported that nearly 130,000 students were enrolled in courses that had been developed or revised with BIE support, an average of nearly 1,900 per institution.
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These two grantees indicated that they had distributed over 30,000 copies of the trade directories. The survey indicated that, in addition to supporting outreach to business, BIE grants support outreach to business education programs: 68 percent of respondents reported activities aimed at helping other institutions internationalize their business curricula.
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In the area of curriculum development, over 85 percent indicated that their institution continued to offer newly developed international business courses after the end of the grant period. In terms of collaboration with business, over 80 percent reported that their institution continued to work with at least one of their BIE partners after the end of the grant period, and they also reported increased activity with one or more of these partners after the conclusion of the grant.
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The CIBER and BIE programs appear to act as resources for the larger business educa tion community, assisting business schools and undergraduate business programs that are interested in developing capacity to support teaching and research on international business issues. ED has supported the CIBER grantees in creating and sustaining a strong, collaborative network facilitated by the shared CIBERweb portal.
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