Quinnipiac Gets Grant For EU Business Studies

HAMDEN — The US Department of Education has awarded an $89,000 grant to the International Business Department in Quinnipiac University’s School of Business to create both a minor in European Union Business Studies and a European Union Business Studies Center.

“The European Union is the United States’ largest trading partner and its most significant near-term competitor,” said Robert Engle, DBA, associate professor of international business at Quinnipiac. “As a regional institution, an important objective will be to provide additional resources to Connecticut’s business community with which to better understand and do business with the European Union.”

The Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management Institute at Quinnipiac, which offers a range of professional courses and services to assist the small business owner and enterprise manager with the skills needed to overcome specific business problems and issues, will support the project. In addition, several organizations, including a university in France (Ecole Superieure de Commerce-Rennes), the Connecticut Development Authority, and the Metro Hartford Regional Economic Alliance and its International Business Council, have agreed to assist Quinnipiac with its creation.

Farid Sadrieh, PhD, associate professor of international business at Quinnipiac, said, “Our first objective is to prepare students to enter the international business workforce as specialists in the European Union. Other objectives are to further internationalize the university and create adequate resources to sustain this endeavor, as well as provide local industry with educational support.”

The project will be implemented over a two-year period, beginning with the 2003–2004 academic year.

The Quinnipiac University School of Business is accredited by AACSB International – The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business; AACSB International – The Association To Advance Collegiate Schools of Business is the professional association for college and university management education and the premier accrediting agency for bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degree programs in business administration and accounting. Quinnipiac Univerity School of Business is one of only five Connecticut institutions –– and one of 413 in North America –– that have been granted full AACSB accreditation.