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KUBS widened the scope of its international collaboration network to include the School of Business Administration (SBA), University of San Diego (USD) by signing the student exchange agreement on January 20th. The signing ceremony was held at the USD campus located at Alcala Park, San Diego, as Dean Jang Rho Lee and the International Programs Director, Dr.Lee-gwon Kim visited to the school.
The exchange agreement specifies that the two schools will exchange up to 3 undergraduate/graduate students per year starting from this fall semester (2005). During the meeting leading up to signing the MOU, Dean Curtis Cook of SBA, USD, introduced his school’s programs and various ongoing international initiatives. Among other things, according Dean Cook, SBA’s International MBA (IMBA) program has a distinct global focus offering short-term study abroad, summer sessions, and international consulting projects in Europe and Asia. Also, the school has a dual MBA degree program with Mexico’s Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM).
For the most part, USD’s graduate programs with global orientation are supported by the Ahlers Center for International Business under the leadership its director, Professor Denise Dimon, who also played an active part in seeing the exchange agreement come to fruition between USD and KUBS. Professor Dimon suggested that KUBS should further expand its international network and diversify its partners to include Latin American universities, and at the same time expressed her willingness to provide KUBS with contacts at top business schools in the region.
Seeing that both schools place great emphasis on broadening the breadth of their global outlook, their interests nicely dovetail with the new student exchange partnership. As a result, students from both schools are expected to benefit through the increased opportunities to enhance their global understanding on various management issues and increase their cultural sensitivities.