The purpose of this conference is to bring together faculty and staff who have dealt with these challenges at a variety of schools, to share their experiences and disseminate STSA ideas and best practices and to think about the lasting impressions generated by STSA programs. Whether you are an experienced STSA practitioner or just contemplating the challenges of implementing a short-term program, we hope you will find the agenda compelling. We are confident that the presentations, panels, and networking opportunities with experienced practitioners will leave you with a better understanding of your role in planning, administering, directing, and/or facilitating short-term study abroad programs.

The Advanced International Business Institute (AIBI) for Community College Faculty is a unique faculty development program. It is designed for community college faculty who have previously attended international business faculty development workshops, seminars, or conferences, as well as faculty who bring previous international business experience to their classrooms, and international business program administrators. Topics to be covered in the AIBI include: classroom tools and course development, developing and maintaining IB programs, and best practices in IB integration. The AIBI will also offer small group breakout sessions for faculty to tackle and resolve their own IB challenges and concerns.

MSU-CIBER and the Leverhulme Centre for Research on Globalisation and Economic Policy (GEP) are co-sponsoring a conference on "International Trade: Firms and Workers," to be held
at the University of Nottingham June 24 "25, 2010. This conference is a follow-up to a workshop

on "Testing Trade Models with Labor Market Heterogeneity," hosted by the Research Institute of Industrial Economics in December 2008.

That earlier workshop, also co-sponsored by MSU-CIBER, brought together researchers from around the world for the purpose of

initiating collaborative research aimed at developing a better understanding of the labor-market effects of globalization in

a world where workers have heterogeneous skills and firms have heterogeneous technologies.

Eighteen months hence, projects that emerged from that initial meeting are beginning to take shape and will be presented in Nottingham.

Colleagues from Michigan State and Nottingham will be joined by researchers from the University of Oregon, University of California at San Diego,

Columbia University, University of London, University of Copenhagen, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, and Koc University.