At a research university such as UCLA, a highly effective means of increasing the international business content of courses is through support of international research opportunities for faculty and graduate students. These programs are explained below.
Support usually includes travel funding, conference attendance and research assistant support.
Grant guidelines are available at this web site, as well as the application form for Faculty Research Grants. A book is forthcoming. The participants in the retreats come from both management and area studies backgrounds, and all present brief research papers on the conference topic. Together with UCLA's Center for East Asian Studies , our 1999 retreat focused on Economic, Social and Legal Issues in China's Transition to a Market Economy. Recipients may use the funding provided by these grants for travel, attending conferences, and research materials acquisition.