Georgia State ‘Gets’ International Education Grant

Georgia State University's 
Robinson College of Business gets a $1.6 million federal grant to start a Center for International Business Education and Research aimed at helping its students compete globally.Georgia State is one of three universities added to the CIBER program this year. It joins 32 other universities nationally that are receiving four-year CIBER grants from the U.S. Department of Education.

"It's really a very elite group of business schools," said Tamer Cavusgil, director of the Institute of International Business at Robinson College, who will also direct the new CIBER program.

The CIBER program was launched by the federal government in 1988 as a way to increase the competitiveness of U.S. companies, said Dr. CavusgilUnder the CIBER program, there will be research projects on how to help U.S. companies sell globally. Study abroad programs will be expanded as will support for internationally focused student organizations such as AIESEC.

Robinson is the largest business school in the South with 200 faculty and 8,000 students. It is one of a handful of universities in the U.S. that offers an international business course taught entirely inSpanish, with plans to offer a second class in French.

In addition to Georgia State, the University of Minnesota and the University of Miami were added to the CIBER program this year.The Georgia Institute of Technology was awarded a grant to continue its CIBER program, which has been in place since 1993.