Kelley School Receives State Department Grant
(photo courtesy of Indiana University Kelley School of Business)
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As a subscriber you can listen to articles at work, in the car, or while you work out. Subscribe NowFaculty members at the Indiana University Kelley School of Business have received a $249,000 grant to extend a teaching and outreach project at the oldest public university in the Republic of North Macedonia. Two Kelley management professors will work for two years with faculty at Saints Cyril and Methodius University to develop graduate business education programs.
“This project will facilitate meaningful collaboration between the two universities and create an opportunity for UKIM to expand business education in the region,” the embassy said in a statement. “We look forward to the outcomes of the partnership with the creation of UKIM’s MBA in strategic human resource management and enhancing the teaching skills of the UKIM faculty.”
The grant is being administered by the Kelley school’s Institute for International Business, with the U.S. Embassy in Skopje providing funding.
“There’s lots of opportunities for collaborative capacity building, not to re-create an American model of education but to work together to create a model that works best in their environment that is based on the learnings and successes that we’ve had,” said LaVonn Schlegel, the institute’s executive director. “This project will help this university establish itself as a regional leader in top-quality business education in a region that is poised to continue to pursue and achieve economic success over the next decade.”
Associate Professors of Management and Entrepreneurship Erik Gonzalez-Mule and Ernest O’Boyle are participating, but IU says due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the professors will be limited to virtual interactions.