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Title: The Role and Value of ShortTerm Study Abroad Alison DavisBlake Investors in Leadership Distinguished


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The Role and Value of Short-Term Study
AbroadAlison Davis-Blake Investors in
Leadership Distinguished Chair in Organizational
BehaviorDean of the Carlson School of Management
University of MinnesotaCIBER Conference
Austin, TexasApril 24, 2008
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What Is Short-Term Study Abroad?
Short-term study abroad
  • Study abroad programs that take place during the
    Summer or January Term, or those that have a
    duration of 8 weeks or fewer.
  • (IIE Open Doors, http//opendoors.iienetwork.org/p
    age/89232/)
  • Programs of 1 to 8 weeks in length (less than a
    term), usually faculty-directed and sponsored by
    a home institution or a consortium.
  • (NAFSAs The Guide to Successful Short-Term
    Programs Abroad (p. xv).)

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Why Focus on Short-Term Study Abroad?
Duration of Study Abroad U.S. Students
Open Doors 2007, Duration of Study
Abroad http//opendoors.iienetwork.org/?p113284
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Carlson School Study Abroad Participation
Graduate Participation
Undergraduate Participation
Effective Fall 2008, all undergraduates will be
required to have an International experience
prior to graduation. Similar graduate
requirement likely in future
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Key Goal of Study Abroad Global Competence
  • Global Competence (Hunter 2006)
  • Open mind
  • Effort to understand cultural norms and
    expectations of others
  • Mental framework to seek and organize knowledge
  • Ability to leverage gained knowledge to interact,
    communicate, and work effectively and comfortably
    outside ones environment

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Business Need for Global Competence
  • Multiple interactions with global economy
  • Foreign market opportunity
  • Key source of revenue
  • Key growth area
  • (Out)Sourcing
  • Competition

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Specific Skills Needed by Business
  • Cross-cultural understanding
  • Cross-cultural teams
  • Ethical differences
  • Tolerance for ambiguity
  • Difference in value standards

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Is Achieving Global Competence the Goal?
  • Instill motivation in all students to become
    globally competent
  • Move students towards competence and towards
    development of needed skills
  • Main factor contributing to motivation
  • Direct international experience

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Perceptions about Short-Term ProgramsCan They
Help Develop Global Competence?
  • Overly short duration
  • Insufficient cultural immersion
  • Inadequate reflection and debriefing
  • Glorified tourism
  • QUESTION How to design short-term study abroad
    programs to address these perceptions and
    concerns and to move students toward global
    competence?

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Carlson Global Enrichment Features
  • Business Partnerprovides international challenge
  • University Partnerprovides cross cultural
    interactions
  • Cross cultural teams
  • Special topics
  • Core topic in international Setting
  • Carlson faculty involvement

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Carlson Global Enrichment Program Locations
  • Argentina
  • Austria
  • Belgium
  • China
  • Costa Rica
  • Denmark
  • England
  • France
  • Germany
  • India
  • Norway
  • Spain
  • Sweden

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Carlson Global Enrichment Undergraduate Example
  • Managerial Accounting
  • Core academic requirement
  • Pre-departure coursework for half a semester
    prior to departure
  • Two-week overseas experience, including
    debriefing and reflection
  • Location selected to fit academic content

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Carlson Global Enrichment Graduate Example
  • China Seminar
  • Corporate partnership live case
  • Partnership with international institution in
    Shanghai
  • Multi-cultural teams
  • Collaboration between Carlson School and partner
    institution faculty

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Value of Short-Term Study Abroad Movement
Toward Global Competence
  • Greater access to an international experience
  • More students going abroad
  • More students choosing multiple short-term
    experiences
  • Exposuremany opportunities to gain an open mind
  • International environment
  • Top ranked partner university
  • Cross cultural teams
  • Opportunities for engagement that go well beyond
    tourismdirect contact with others norms and
    expectations
  • Corporate
  • Colleagues
  • Period of reflection helps develop a framework
    for knowledge

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  • As a part-time MBA student, I found the
    interaction and networking with other students to
    be incredibly valuable since this is much more
    difficult to accomplish in the context of our
    normal classes. Both personally and
    professionally I felt like this experience was
    life-changing for me and would highly recommend
    it to anyone!
  • - Student quote Ethics Seminar 2007

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