Moving out to meet the world
Subtitle: 25 years of internationalizing students, faculty and executives
By: David Yawn
Publisher: David Yawn, Corporate Chronicles, 1082 Kings Park, Memphis, Tennessee, 38117, USA
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Memphis, Tennessee, 38117
Language: eng
Number of pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9780615631660
Subjects: International education; International business; Fogelman College of Business and Economics; Business education; Robert Wang Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER) (University of Memphis)
Other titles: Twenty-five years of internationalizing students, faculty and executives; Robert Wang Center for International Business, Fogelman College of Business & Economics, the University of Memphis
Description: "The Robert Wang Center for International Business and Research (CIBER) at the University of Memphis is a center marking a quarter century of progress and deserving a special type of recognition. The director's vision for bringing the ever-changing business world to faculty, students, business executives and the local community is reflected in its internationally focused programs, such as the establishment of the International MBA Program - unique in its emphasis on international experiences for students. The center provides faculty study abroad programs and offers international conferences on timely global topics to the business community."--Jacket.
Notes: Robert Wang Center for International Business at the University of Memphis -- Book jacket.
Table of contents: title: Preface; title: Foreword : Perspective from a university president; title: Introduction : U.S. Department of Education; title: Global economic changes of the 1980s-1990s; title: Memphis as an international community; title: Mission and vision of the Wang Center; title: University and CIBER grant missions; title: Students moving out to meet the world; title: Bringing the world to business executives; title: Faculty members moving out to meet the world; title: Bringing the world into university classrooms; title: Bringing the world to minority institutions; title: Bringing the world to university researchers; title: Testimonials; title: Epilogue and outlook; title: Timeline of progress; title: Appendices; title: Figures; title: Appendices. Robert Wang Center staff; title: Wang CIBER advisory council; title: Institutuional linkages descriptions; title: Visiting scholars; title: Organizational relationships; title: IMBA graduating class photos; title: IMBA internships and sample of employment; title: Ph. D graduate bios; title: International business undergraduate program; title: Support for undergraduate study abroad; title: TFLI-business language for Memphis community; title: Conferences for business community; title: Faculty study abroad; title: European Union; title: FDIB-globalization seminars; title: Business foreign language workshops; title: HBCU annual reports and participants; title: Research support for faculty; title: Research support for Ph. D. students.