The 8th Biennial International Business Institute for Community College Faculty is a unique professional development program designed specifically for community and technical college faculty. The aim of the Institute is to provide participants with the knowledge, experience and resources they need to internationalize general business courses and/or develop specialized international business courses at the two-year college level.

The theme of the 2009 conference will be:
International Marketing in or by Firms from Emerging Market Economies: Theoretical and Empirical Contributions