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Program Design Implications from International Business Majors' Goals before and after Undergraduate Study
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Routon, P. Wesley; Hartley, Phillip; Torres, Luis – Journal of Teaching in International Business, 2022
Understanding students' post-graduation goals is important because it aids faculty and administrators in course and program design, mentoring, and generally serving students. Using a sample of almost 513,000 undergraduates from more than 600 colleges and universities, we examine goals and plans of international business majors. Students were…
Descriptors: Program Design, Majors (Students), Undergraduate Students, Business Administration Education
Understanding Potential Impacts from University-Led Educational Travel
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Hale, Brack W. – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2019
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to investigate the potential for environmental and social impacts from university-level educational travel programs. Design/methodology/approach: This study analyzes the sites visited by 17 education travel programs to the Westfjords (Iceland) from 2014 to 2016. It uses a geographic information system (GIS)…
Descriptors: Universities, Travel, Geographic Information Systems, Environmental Influences
Using Typologies to Interpret Study Abroad Preferences of American Business Students: Applying a Tourism Framework to International Education
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Cardon, Peter W.; Marshall, Bryan; Poddar, Amit – Journal of Education for Business, 2011
The authors describe research that applies a tourist framework to study abroad attitudes and preferences. A total of 371 university business students in the Southern region of the United States completed a survey that included the International Tourist Role scale and study abroad attitudes and preferences. These students were grouped into one of 4…
Descriptors: International Education, Familiarity, Business Education Teachers, Business Education
Community College Tourism Education: A Study of Institutional Linkages.
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Schulman, Stuart A.; Greenberg, Joseph A. – Community College Review, 1994
Describes a study of 205 community college tourism programs to determine whether programs were most frequently free standing, placed within another department, or a collection of courses within a department. Reveals that two-thirds of the 150 responding programs were placed in another department, and over half of these were placed in the business…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Community Colleges, Department Heads, Departments
A Profile of the U.S. Student Abroad.
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Koester, Jolene – 1985
The responses of U.S. students to a questionnaire that was attached to applications for the International Student Identity Card are presented and analyzed. The data were gathered in a study of the characteristics, attitudes, financial support, prior experience abroad, and study and travel arrangements of U.S. students going abroad. After an…
Descriptors: Data Interpretation, Financial Support, Majors (Students), National Surveys
Priorities in Foreign Language Education for the 1990s: A Report from the Southwest.
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Pino, Barbara Gonzalez – 1991
A survey of 368 second language teachers at the elementary school, middle school, high school, and college level in the southwest United States (Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas) investigated teachers' priorities for language instruction in the 1990s. Respondents ranked aspects of language instruction in priority order. Results were…
Descriptors: Advocacy, Articulation (Education), Curriculum Design, Education Work Relationship