Before coming to the United States in 1970, associate professor and finance coordinator Ashok Kapoor worked at the American Embassy in his home country of India. \u201cBoth my cultural and religious background allows me to bring a very different perspective to issues of the day that we discuss both among colleagues and with our students.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHaving faculty of diverse backgrounds is important to the richness of the academic programming offered in our department,\u201d says assistant professor Fekri Meziou, Tunisian by birth. In his international marketing course, for example, students analyze the challenges of marketing products and services in different regions around the world. \u201cThis course can only be taught by someone who has traveled extensively and has immersed himself\/herself during an extended stay in the life of the foreign countries.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIn the current context of globalization,\u201d Kapoor says, \u201cmy international experience comes in handy in all my classes … My work experience overseas provides many examples to my students and helps them keep an open perspective leading to better decisions both professionally and in their personal lives.\u201d<\/p>\n
Associate professor and department chair Magdalena Paleczny-Zapp was born and raised in Krakow, Poland, and taught in several European institutions before coming to Augsburg. \u201cStudents leave the place more open-minded than the day they came,\u201d she asserts.<\/p>\n
Senior Dulce Monterrubio, a native of Mexico City, credits Zapp\u2019s own experience as an international business consultant with helping her understand that \u201cbeing an international student here at Augsburg was just the first step, but that successfully adapting to a second, third, or fourth culture would be what truly would make me the international educator\/professional I wanted to become.\u201d Dulce is using her cultural experiences, which include studying abroad in Spain, in her current role as a program assistant in Augsburg\u2019s Center for Global Education.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen I got here [in 1990] and saw the amount of diversity in the department, I wondered if we would all work well together,\u201d remembers associate professor Lori Lohman, who is a self-described Midwestern Protestant. \u201cIn a short period of time it became apparent to me that this would be the best place I would ever work. My co-workers are exceptional. We support each other. We respect and value our differences.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cFor me, it would be hard to work in a department where only one culture was represented,\u201d says Zapp. \u201cWe bring to the class very different worlds. We represent different cultures, different countries, different religious beliefs \u2026 The benefits are immeasurable.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Department of Business Administration has 24 full-time faculty, more than 35 part-time faculty, teaching over 700 undergraduate and 300 graduate students.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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