Windows onto the World Lecture Series, 2000-2001 Academic Year - Spring Semester

THURSDAY, APRIL 5th INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL

The overall goal of this, TSU's first international festival is to stimulate and strengthen interaction among international students, their U.S. peers, faculty, and the community. The festival is the final event in this year's 'Windows onto the World Lecture Series'.

This festival will:

• create an outlet for cultural expression for the international students, encourage them to have more visibility and involvement on campus
• educate and promote intercultural awareness and appreciation among US students & faculty link agencies/ businesses/corporations and the community at large in greater Nashville with the Office of International Business Programs
• include intercultural entertainment, speakers, ethnic foods 6 displays from the international community including the business community.

Companies doing business internationally are invited to display their products) and services, and have the opportunity to network with students, faculty/staff and other businesses involved.

We invite you to the Spring 2001 Series

• January 24: Ukraine comes to TSU
• February 22: CAT Financial--Thinking & Acting Globally
• March 22: Doing Business in Taiwan
• April 5: International Festival

The Jan, Feb, 6 March presentations will take place in the Atrium of the TSU Avon Williams Campus from 12:00 1:30pm. The International Festival will be held at the Main Campus.

For more information, contact
Galen S. Hull, Ph.D, Director
Office of International Business Programs
TSU College of Business
Tel: (615)-963-7154
Email: ghull@tnstate.edu

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 24th

Ukraine Comes to Tennessee State University

TSU has recently entered into a partnership with the L'viv Institute of Management (LIM) in Ukraine, together with Lincoln University in Missouri and the Nashville Area and Brentwood Chambers of Commerce. A USAID-funded grant managed by the Association Liaison Office of the American Council on Education will facilitate the activities under this two-year partnership.

In 1990, LIM became one of the first institutions in Eastern Europe to offer n western-style MBA degree and is today recognized throughout Ukraine as a leader in management education.

Mr. Ihor Nykolyn			Mr. Petro Yanyts'kiy
	Ihor Nykolyn is the Director of External Relations at LIM and is responsible for managing linkages with American and European universities and business schools.			Petro Yanyts'kiy has served as Executive Director of LIM since 1994 and is responsible for the overall management of the Institute.

Messrs. Ihor Nykolyn and Petro Yanyts'kiy of LIM will discuss the following subjects:

• An overview of the economy of Western Ukraine
• The L'viv Institute of Management and its program
• How the partnership will Impact education at LIM and promote private sector growth in Western Ukraine.

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 22nd

Caterpillar Financial Services: Thinking & Acting Globally

ATTN TSU STUDENTS: Are you thinking about an international career? If so, join us and gain valuable insights from those who are immersed in the global economy.

Caterpillar Financial Services (CAT Financial), subsidiary of Caterpillar Inc., is globally active in Asia, Australia, Europe Latin America and North America with their headquarters in Nashville, TN. They are "high-tech and high touch, grounded and groundbreaking, global and local."

CAT Financial is a recipient of the Tennessee Quality Excellence Award of 1999. It is only the second company to earn Global Excellence Commendation, which gauges an organizational readiness to compete in the global arena. They maintain that regardless of the advances of technology, building relationships face?to?face should never go away.

CAT Financial will form a panel consisting of international employees working in the U.S. and U.S. born employees who have worked overseas. The panelists will address what students should consider from nn educational and personal perspective. Included will be:

• Preparing to work in an international setting
• Working in the U.S. ? An international employee's perspective
• Responding to the challenges of globalization and corporate diversity
  

THURSDAY, MARCH 22nd

Doing Business in Taiwan, The Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Atlanta

Last year the Windows onto the World program began with a discussion of doing business in China. Now we turn our attention to neighboring Taiwan and invite you to hear from the Director of the Commercial Division of the Taipei Economic & Cultural Office, Taiwan's trade information center in Atlanta. Established by the Ministry of Economic Affairs, the Atlanta center promotes trade and economic Financial relations between Taiwan and the Southeastern United States and facilitates two?way trade and investment between Taiwan, the Republic of China and the U.S.

With a population just over 20 million, Taiwan is a mountainous island off the coast of China about the size of Massachusetts. Often known as one of the "Four Tigers;" the country has experienced dramatic economic success in nearly 50 years of development. Its economy is considered by many to be a "development miracle" with sustained high rates of growth. Taiwan's economic structure has undergone gradual reconfiguration due to international competition and the transformation of its own domestic industries. The economy has become increasingly open to trade and free form earlier restrictive and protectionist tendencies. Absolute poverty has been virtually eliminated.

Mr. David Wang

Mr. David Wang has a Master's Degree in International Business from Taiwan National Cheng-Chi University. He is currently Director of Commercial Division, Taipei Economic and Cultural Office.

• has had a wide range of experience within Taiwan's government sector,
• served in Australia for 4 years before his promotion to be an assistant officer in the office of Taiwan's Vice Minister of Economic Affairs in 1993.