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At your convenience check out this link http://www.iated.org/iceri2009/. It is about a conference on international collaboration and I was thinking that it might be nice if we, this group, tried to make a short presentation. We could actually go to Spain if we could find some funding, or we could do it virtually via Skype and Centra (from my university).

Here is what I was thinking and you let me know what you think...I think there is much about international collaboration from an institutional perspective (memorandum's of understanding, joint appointments and enrollments, curricula collaboration, etc.) and from individual faculty/professors' perspective (difficulties in finding partners, institutional support, competing priorities, etc.)....BUT I think there is very little from a student perspective.

Why don't we think about international collaboration from a student perspective - what makes the international collaboration important for students (both here and abroad).

• Why should either institution, here or abroad, make the effort?
  
• Why should students try to find time for this kind of activity given the rigorous schedules they have already?
  
• Why should an individual faculty member try to engage international students in conversation given their own professional and institutional priorities?
• What is the value of this sort of exchange and is it worth the expended energy?
  

What do you think? I would be happy to submit an abstract but we could collaboratively write a paper and make a presentation....let me know if this is something that might be of interest.

And of course good luck on your exams. EM

Good Morning.

I am in northern Wisconsin on Newman Lake where my family has a cabin. You can see some of the birds of the lake at this lake http://birdfreak.com/northwoods-birding-the-lakes/.

The most famous bird of the area is called the loon, only here in the Americas. You can hear what a loon sounds like at http://blog.syracuse.com/indepth/2008/07/audio_hear_the_calls_of_the_co.html.

I am interested in hearing from you. Can someone be brave enough to post a message? I think jumping right into a leadership of management conversation might be a bit too much. SO.....Why don't you tell me something about the birds or forests of Bosnia? I am not interested in your English skills, just give it a try. This could be a good practice, and maybe once you get comfortable in English we can try to work on my Bosnian!

EM

Have a good day. EM

I thought I might route you to some web pages that introduce leadership and give you an opportunity to begin to think about what kind of leader you would like to become.

http://www.nwlink.com/~Donclark/leader/leader.html
http://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/newLDR_01.htm

A very big discussion is around the idea about leadership - are leaders born to be leaders or can you learn to be a leader? What do you think?

Welcome to our conversation!

Hello to my friends and colleagues in Bosnia!

This space will allow us to share ideas and information. We will be able to pose questions and comments and to talk about issues related to management and leadership. I look forward to getting to know more about you as we begin our conversation.


Ellen McMahon, Ed. D., MBA
Associate Professor of the College of Management and Business
National-Louis University
Chicago, IL 60603 USA
312 261 3604
emcmahon@nl.edu