Upcoming Workshops on Faculty Development in International Business

As the leading business school educator in the area, GSU’s College of Business and Public Administration is providing a series of workshops for faculty at community colleges in the region.  The Faculty Development in International Business (FDIB) workshops are designed to instruct community college business faculty on how to bring international content into the classroom and expand their classroom knowledge and skills.  

Offered through our School of Extended Learning and sponsored by a US Department of Education grant, the FDIB workshops will be led by highly experienced CBPA faculty who are content experts on the presented topics.  The workshops will be held on Wednesday, June 10 through Thursday, June 11, 2015 from 9 am – 4 pm, and because of the education grant, are offer at a minimum cost to participants.   Upon successfully completing the two-day workshop, participants will receive a “Certificate of Completion.”

The two-day workshop features two modules.  FDIB’s Day 1 is on the Management in the Changing Global Environment and includes:  Understanding national culture; Global leadership and team management; Managing social responsibility in a global context; and Global human resource management.  On Day 2, entitled Global Financial Economics, participants will be presented with the following workshops: Finance and economics; International financial markets; Exchange rates; and International diversification.

Two of the workshop presenters are Dr. Stephen Wagner and Dr. Michael Williams.  As an Associate Professor of Management for the CBPA, Dr. Stephen Wagner received his Ph.D. in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from Northern Illinois University. Dr. Michael Williams is an Assistant Professor of Finance at GSU and received his PhD in Finance (2012) from the University of Texas at San Antonio. 

You may register for the FDIB workshops through the Governors State University Continuing Education and School of Extended Learning registration page.  Please see our website for the complete details. 

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