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September 2006
School of Business to Establish Center
for International Education and Research
Professor of International
Business Hildy Teegan will
head the new GW-CIBER. |
Thanks to a $1.37-million
grant from the U.S.
Department of Education,
GW will establish a
Center for International Business
Education and Research
(CIBER) in the University’s
School of Business.
GW was one of 31 universities
to receive the prestigious
CIBER grant, which provides
funding for curriculum development,
research, and training
on issues of importance to
United States trade and
competitiveness.
“Our academic mission is
to deliver an outstanding
education, advance knowledge,
and provide practical
experience in diverse organizational
settings, while leveraging
the unique advantages
of our Washington, D.C.,
location in order to enhance
the capacities of students,
faculty, staff, alumni, and the
business community to be
productive and principled
members of society,” says
Susan M. Phillips, dean of
GW’s School of Business. “The CIBER grant proposal
and work that will follow is
the school’s mission in action.”
Under the unified theme “Institutions and Development,”
the GW-CIBER will
focus its work in six substantive
areas: global governance;
diasporas in development;
international security and
crisis management; trade,
investment, and labor issues;
business and society in
critical countries; and
business languages.
Additionally, the GWCIBER
will include an
interdisciplinary summer
doctoral program; initiatives
to promote international
careers; and faculty development
programs for teaching
international business negotiation
and for research
and teaching related to the
theme of nstitutions and
development.
“The CIBER grant is a
great testament to the
strength of not only GW’s
international business and
international affairs programs
but also of the outstanding
teaching, research, and community
activities of the entire
University,” says Hildy Teegen,
professor of international
business and the principal
investigator for GW’s CIBER
proposal. “The CIBER grant
is a truly pan-University
initiative with faculty from
every school at GW.”
GW’s CIBER is led
by the following faculty:
- Diasporas in Development:
Associate Professor
Jennifer Brinkerhoff,
Columbian College of
Arts and Sciences
- Global Governance:
Professor Stephen Smith,
Columbian College of
Arts and Sciences
- Trade, Investment, and
Labor in Developing
Countries: Professor
Michael Moore, Elliott
School of International
Affairs
- Business and Society in
Critical Countries:
Assistant Professor Liesl
Riddle, School of Business
- International Security
and Crisis Management:
Professor Robert Weiner,
School of Business
- Summer Doctoral
Program: Associate Professor
Jennifer Spencer,
School of Business
- Business Languages:
Associate Professor
Margaret Gonglewski,
Columbian College of
Arts and Sciences
Send feedback to: bygeorge@gwu.edu
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