Global Professional Leadership Training

Join the International Office’s Global Professional Leadership Training (GPLT) retreat March 23-24 and take advantage of this opportunity to:

Explore an international career
Enhance your international leadership ability
Expand your cultural competency in Middle Eastern/Western affairs

You can expect inspirational speakers on the Middle East, training from cross-cultural experts, leadership development exercises, and networking with colleagues with similar interests from across campus.

This opportunity is open to all UT students interested in learning more about living and working in the Middle East while developing cross-cultural communication and leadership skills.

For more information on GPLT follow this link: http://world.utexas.edu/globalinitiatives/gplt
Click here to complete an application.

Summer Programs

Enhance Your Education by Participating in a CIBER Summer International Program

 
CIBER’s international summer programs feature small classes, outstanding faculty from McCombs and our partner schools, interesting courses with international content, class-related visits to local businesses and institutions, and group cultural events and excursions. The programs are offered during the summer sessions and all courses are taught in English. Each program is created in partnership with a partner institution with whom we have an exchange agreement and have previously exchanged students.

To learn more about CIBER international summer programs, visit the Summer Programs Page:

MBA/MPA Business Language Tutoring

The Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER) Business Language Tutoring is offered in a variety of languages for students who would like to improve their foreign & business language skills.

Language options are dependent upon the availability of tutors for the requested language. Students may request tutoring in any language and CIBER works to accommodate as many requests as possible each semester. Previously offered languages include but are not limited to:

Tutoring sessions are tailored to the student's level of proficiency:

• Beginning basic language
• Intermediate grammar review and business terminology
• Advanced business situations

  Eligible Students: Full-time MBA, Texas Evening MBA, Executive MBA and MPA students only
  Proficiency Level: All levels
  Schedule: 12 weeks, 90 minute sessions
  Specific days and times arranged with tutors
  Available Fall and Spring semesters
  Location: UT-Austin campus, specific location arranged with tutors
  Cost: $400

  Payment: The $400 fee will be posted to students' UT accounts. Payment can be made via What I Owe.
  Credit: No Credit
  
  For further information, contact the Associate Director for Business Language Programs

Doctoral Sylff Fellowship

SYLFF

Generally known as "SYLFF", The Ryoichi Sasakawa Young Leaders Fellowship Fund was established in 1987 by The Nippon Foundation. This fellowship fund is a program of the Tokyo Foundation.

The purpose of the Ryoichi Sasakawa Young Leaders Fellowship Fund is to financially assist young graduate students in the humanities and social sciences with leadership potential and interest in international affairs so as to help in the creation of a well-balanced and responsive core of future public and private sector leaders.  

SYLFF Doctoral Fellowships in Business

The fellowships are administered by the Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER), McCombs School of Business, University of Texas at Austin.

 The objective of these awards, which are made possible by an endowment from the Sasakawa Young Leaders Fellowship Fund (SYLFF) of the Tokyo Foundation, is to support doctoral dissertation research on topics combining international and business perspectives. They will be made only to doctoral students who are currently enrolled in a graduate program at The University of Texas at Austin (UT-Austin), who have been admitted to candidacy, and whose approved dissertation research addresses, wholly or in significant part, the objective described above.

Process

Using the SYLFF Doctoral Fellowship Application Form (pdf) graduate advisers submit nominations to CIBER in the McCombs School. Applications will be reviewed by the UT-Austin SYLFF Steering Committee, with input from McCombs School Doctoral Advisory Committee.  

Eligibility

Applicants must be currently enrolled at UT-Austin and admitted to candidacy. Awards are based on major accomplishments since entering graduate school, a well-defined program of research that combines international and business perspectives, a strong personal statement, and a letter of recommendation from the applicant's doctoral advisor.

Address

Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER)
McCombs School of Business
Dr. David Platt
CBA 3.204, Mail Stop B6000
(512) 471-1829 

Doctoral Internationalization Consortium

The UT CIBER is proud to participate in the CIBER Doctoral Internationalization Consortium, which comprises the CIBERs at

• Duke University  - International Management/Organization Design
  
• Purdue University - Operations Management
  
• University of California at Los Angeles - Finance
  
• University of Michigan  - International Cultural Management/Organizational Behavior
  
• University of Pennsylvania - Accounting
  
• University of Texas at Austin  - Marketing
  
• University of Washington - Information Systems

The purpose of these consortia is to provide doctoral students in all functional areas of business an international perspective regarding the major issues and research questions that are related to their disciplines. The consortia bring doctoral students together with prominent faculty whose traditional areas of research have not been international in scope, but who have recently internationalized their work. Students attend talks conducted by faculty members as well as participate in group discussion sessions in which international research agendas are developped.

Participating CIBERs host consortia focusing on core academic subjects, inviting doctoral students from partner institutions and elsewhere to explore international themes in their discipline, and underwriting the cost of lodging and meals for attendees.

The UT Austin CIBER hosts a biennial Doctoral Internationalization Consortium in Marketing.  The fall, 2009 event brought 25 doctoral students together with prominent international faculty to discuss international topics related to marketing.  Participants delivered a research agenda to address the questions formulated during these discussions.  UT will host another consortium in 2011.  PhD students should monitor the CIBERWeb Portal for meetings.

Past Meetings

Purdue University, International Operations Management, June 2011
University of Washington, Information Systems, June 2011
University of Pennsylvania, International Accounting, June 2010
Univeristy of Michigan, International Cultural Management/Org. Behavior, Spring 2009
University of Texas at Austin, International Marketing, Summer 2009
Duke University, Managing Strategic Change & Global Organization Design, May 2008
UCLA, International Finance, 2008
University of Washington, Information Systems, June 2008
Purdue University, International Operations Management, October 2007
University of Michigan, International Cultural Management/Organizational Behavior, Spring 2007

Tutor Application

Thank you for your interest in joining the CIBER Tutor team. To get started with your application, please read carefully through the application criteria below and check whether you meet all of them. 

1. You are registered for at least nine hours for this semester. Please note we can only appoint you once fall tuition is paid in full.
   
2. Your GPA is 3.0 or above. 
   
3. If you are an international student or a first-year graduate student, your total appointment including your work as a  tutor cannot exceed 20 hours per week. Independent of when you actually hold your lesson, tutoring one student is considered to add 2.5 hours per week, two students adds 5 hours per week, etc. 
    
   If you meet all these criteria, please follow the link below and fill out an application form. Once we have received your information we will contact you. Please submit your application at this link:  Application Form

If you have questions, please contact Sabine Wimmer  at (512) 471-1829 or sabine.wimmer@mccombs.utexas.edu