The Fifth Biennial International Business Institute for Community College Faculty

10-15 May 2003
Kellogg Hotel and Conference Center, Michigan State University
East Lansing, Michigan

PROGRAM EVALUATION REPORT

Formal Evaluations from the 2003 participants of the International Business Institute for Community College Faculty and selected testimonials.

Selected Testimonials

"This was a wonderful conference – what a wealth of information, cross-section of presenters and diversity of participants"

How this report was compiled:

Participants were asked to rate the quality of the programs, speakers, accommodations, and facilities on a five point scale from excellent to poor. Thirty-two evaluations were collected and found complete enough to be included. Where a participant circled two or more answers for a giving question, the more conservative answer was used. Where a participant neglected to answer a particular question, he or she was removed from the sample. Throughout this report, the number of participants answering a particular question was recorded as the value of N.

Program Components:

Panel Sessions:

N= 28

79% of respondents rated this component as "excellent" or "very good"

Comments:

• Good opportunity to hear different views and ask questions
• Good feedback from the field
• With a number of people participating, we always get something from each of them
• Very diverse and very specific
• More time needed

• Something for everyone
• Liked the completeness of coverage of all areas
• Eliminate the exchange rate session, people understand this concept

• Good, exact information
• More of these!! Helpful to hear from someone with living experience in a country
• I found this the best, more useful part of the conference
• I would like to have heard more about what is happening in Africa

• Very good, firsthand knowledge
• No prepared handouts, overlap of sessions

• Globaledge rocks!!!
• I obtained many, many ideas on current resources for IB
• Need more computers

• Large enough to be comfortable, nice windowed environment, adequate room between individuals
• Good chairs for sitting all day
• Comfortable, spacious, comfortable chairs and tables. Good AV equipment.
• Couldn't ask for anything better
• Like every hotel I have ever been in attendance, the rooms are always cold

• Best I have encountered at a conference
• Clean, nice to have internet access in the room for the price of a local call
• Need more online access throughout the complex

• The best hotel food ever – including 5 star resorts. Remarkable.
• Excellent choices, everything was fresh
• Good variety and quality. They tasted good and were satisfying. Don’t know how this could be improved!!!
• Maybe cookies at breaks

• The best of everything – especially service
• I got some wonderful resources to take home with me and enough websites to keep me at my computer for the remainder of my life!!
• The notebook was very good. I will give it a prominent place in my office. I was glad to be introduced to the textbooks
• More copies of course syllabus from other community colleges

• This is the best professional development experience that I have ever had
• I think I can go back to my school and write a proposal for a new course to be called say "Introduction to International Business". More important, I think that the content I learned was the motivation to establish such a course
• Great resources to use for classes
• Material was covered well
• More two year content

• Yes. I received what felt like one on one attention
• Yes, yes, yes!!! Very helpful, received many usable ideas for syllabus and class exercises
• Great presentations, interactive
• Provide discussion questions to session participants enough ahead of time so that we could think about appropriate responses.

• Top notch!!!
• Good handouts, excellent resource material from CIBER staff
• Yes, I like samples of videos and some books
• More ideas on internationalizing curriculum across college would have helped me. Excellent information on what is being done in business programs – Thank you.

• Quality of speakers, very impressive group of experts
• Efforts to provide transportation and food selections daily
• Quality of people presenting, quality of people attending
• Spirit of its leadership, interaction with colleagues, the practitioners' presentations
• The GM tour
• 5 days of knowledge – can't get any better
• Diversity and sharing the intellectual experience

• The weather at the beginning?
• A little too jam-packed!!! Needed more time for yourself for rejuvenation
• I like nearly everything. Thanks for MSU-CIBER's efforts

• I sincerely appreciate being invited back. With that, I learned, I will continue to promote IB. My wish is to return in 2005 with a fully developed online IB curriculum. Thank you all. Tamer, Tomas, Bill, Beverly, Irem, John and Ronda.
• Facilities were 5 stars.