Instructors teach international management courses to students busy traveling the world. Managing the distance Trena McReynolds Trena McReynolds felt the annual company Christmas party was one of those work-related social events she had to attend. But at 7 p.m., The University of Texas at Dallas grad student slipped into an adjacent room to participate in her international management class. One hour later, after studying sophisticated marketing strategies with fellow students via computer, Ms. McReynolds rejoined the party, which was nowhere near the UTD campus. MIMS, a distance-learning curriculum that can be customized to fit individual student needs, offers an alternative to those who find it difficult to attend classes on campus.
Time is everything.
Time Is On Their Side Business executives, lawyers, engineers, corporate managers, and other professionals who work long hours, or travel, or both, often have trouble slotting classroom time, not to mention campus commutes, into busy schedules. As a result, many have found it hard to advance their careers through education. MIMS offers help Seventy-four students have enrolled in the program, now in its second year, and the message is spreading through cyberspace and by word of mouth about MIMS' flextime approach to learning. Now, if they are enrolled in MIMS, that doesn't happen. They also participate in a ten-day trip to a foreign country.