University of Arkansas/Université du Centre at Sousse
Country:
Tunisia
Award Date:
2003
Award Amount:
$100,000.00
Cost Share:
$187,184.00
Other Partners:
The University of Arkansas (UA) and the Université du Centre (UC) are creating an innovative undergraduate core business curriculum at UC that will integrate all aspects of business education into courses based on business processes. The partners are also developing pilot executive education programs in business management, strategic retailing, and supply chain logistics. The partnership has developed an enterprise approach to the undergraduate core curriculum. Three UC faculty members spent three weeks at UA to learn about this approach and how it might be applied in their educational program. The result was a plan to develop courses using materials prepared by UA’s Walton College of Business (WCB) faculty, modified to account for cultural and resource differences between the two institutions. The courses will be offered as an innovative undergraduate program to about 40 students at UC on a pilot basis. WCB faculty collected 400 to 500 business and economics books to ship to UC during summer 2004.