Dr. Tim Becker has been a faculty member at CIBU since 2009. He came to the university with exceptional teaching and business development experience in various industries in the United States and Australia. He is President of Total Recall Learning, an innovative learning/training software development company that tracks knowledge retention. He also has extensive experience in the areas of strategic management, new products, and business development. His practical experience includes marketing, management, and e-commerce.

Dr. Becker offers a unique blend of business experience and academic know-how in both classroom and administrative settings. His strengths include his high degree of initiative, his extraordinary creativity, his honed communication skills, his knowledge of and experience with marketing, and his ability to listen carefully to the needs of consumers and students alike.

He has served as a lecturer or instructor at universities including the University of Redlands, Point Loma Nazarene University, Webster University, the University of Phoenix, California State University at Fullerton, the University of San Diego, and San Diego State University. Besides his practical experience as President of Total Recall, he has extensive experience in the transportation and hospitality industries, having served as the Director of Marketing and Member Benefits for the International Airline Passengers Association, Director of Marketing for Western Union Travel Industry Services, Manager of Customer Service for Great Western Sugar Company, Director of Passenger Services for Braniff International Airlines, and Sales and Service Supervisor for American Airlines.

Dr. Becker has garnered distinguished teaching awards from the University of North Texas, San Diego State University, and the University of Phoenix. He also won the Braniff International Distinguished Service Award, and is a San Diego State University Career Center Hall of Fame Member.

Dr. Becker created and directs the New Business Venture Competition at CIBU, an annual competition among student business start-up concepts in undergraduate and graduate level entrepreneurship courses. Students regularly list his courses among the most “engaging and productive” at CIBU. He is an admired and respected instructor at the university.

Dr. Becker earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in German from Luther College in Decorah, Iowa. Subsequently, he earned a Master of Business Administration from the University of Dallas in Irving, Texas, and a Doctor of Business Administration, with a focus on Marketing, from United States International University in San Diego.

CIBU is fortunate to have such an innovative, experienced educator as Dr. Becker in its midst.

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By W. Howe, Dean of Academic Affairs

Like most universities today, CIBU has had to adapt to the changing times. Part of such adaptation has been the move to increasingly engaging, exciting teaching strategies. The old “sage on the stage” strategy is frequently looked at as anachronistic in higher education today, particularly with research over decades now indicating that students learn more successfully, are more motivated and engaged, and remember their learning and use it later when they are actively involved in the class and engage in meaningful exchanges with peers and instructor. Stanford University School of Medicine, for example, notes the following on its website:

Interactive learning actively engages the students in wrestling with the material. It reinvigorates the classroom for both students and faculty. Lectures are changed into discussions, and students and teachers become partners in the journey of knowledge acquisition.

Research from the fields of education, learning theory, cognitive science, and neuroscience provides abundant evidence that engaged, interactive learning is the most effective way to transmit usable knowledge to students.

At CIBU we take the call for engaging, exciting teaching strategies seriously, though like most universities that include faculty who may have been nurtured on older models, we still have much to do to help faculty transition to newer, perhaps less familiar strategies. Nevertheless, we can be proud of what we are doing at present even as we seek to continue developing more interactive, engaging teaching and learning.

To be sure, our marketing and entrepreneurship courses are taking the lead in promoting interactive strategies. They are utilizing engaging case studies, for example, wherein students actively discuss decision making, managerial styles, personnel issues, and out-of-the-box thinking with specific business scenarios in mind. In addition, they examine real products in the classroom and engage in discussions about how those products are marketed effectively today and how they might be marketed even more effectively tomorrow.

Other courses are taking students into the field to visit and interact with leaders of exciting, relevant, and often highly innovative organizations or even to participate in multi-day “experiences” that include intensive engagement with cutting-edge businesses that help make classroom learning come alive. Business Law courses include a visit to the court room, with the visit this fall term focusing on a billion dollar case that has enormous ramifications for healthcare throughout the United States. Yet another course asks students to engage in teams with San Diego-based businesses and their leaders and to develop a report with recommendations for possible improvement of those businesses.

Further strategies are equally engaging: simulations that require moral/ethical decisions that affect people’s lives; role play exercises in which students enact leadership and followership roles; guest speakers who are well recognized entrepreneurs and who display the unique products they have developed; problem-based learning activities wherein students seek to solve simulated or real business problems; and debates on a variety of contemporary business issues.

Our faculty are also considering projects for the future that will move the university to even more exciting and engaging teaching and learning – e.g., student-selected speakers who are interviewed and face provocative student-generated questions; peer-based teaching in which students teach each other and provide thoughtful feedback and critique to each other; a “CIBU Studio” that will feature podcasts and possibly even a CIBU channel; an incubator space for the development and display of student business products; and competency-based education through which students in a course develop measurable competencies important to today’s business world.

Again, like other universities, we are evolving, and part of that evolution is an increasing emphasis on useful, practical, relevant skills developed through interactive, engaged teaching and learning. In many ways CIBU is ahead of the curve and seeking to bring exciting strategies to the classroom and to the local and global businesses to which we are, through our diverse student population and our educational programs, closely linked.

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In a recent issue of the San Diego Business Journal, California International Business University (CIBU) ranked 9^th in San Diego County in terms of enrolled MBA students. With its current population of MBA students, CIBU outranks institutions such as Brandman University, the University of Redlands, Alliant International School of Management, and Argosy University. Much larger state universities such as San Diego State University, and California State University at San Marcos, and the University of California at San Diego, as well as private universities such as the University of San Diego and Point Loma Nazarene University, outrank CIBU on MBA enrollment.

Interestingly, CIBU’s MBA program has the second lowest annual tuition — $13, 841 – of San Diego County MBA programs, a fact that attests to the affordability of CIBU in general vis-à-vis other area universities. Clearly, CIBU is more affordable than any other business university in the County with one exception. Coupled with the fact that CIBU is small and offers a highly personalized education, this low tuition cost is quite remarkable. It is also worth noting that CIBU is one of only three MBA universities that is devoted solely to business; its business is business education rather than a host of other disciplinary or professional concerns.

The ranking obviously demonstrates that CIBU is a distinctive MBA-offering university in the San Diego region.

The complete list of San Diego County’s top MBA universities and its methodology can be found here.

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CIBU offers assistance to Veterans with applying for education benefits. The following educational benefits are available to veterans and dependents at CIBU:

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We’re proud to announce that Swedish students can earn their bachelors, masters, or doctoral degree at California International Business University (CIBU) with funding from Centrala Studiestödsnämnden. Sweden uses financial aid to make it easier to study and thereby contribute to a high level of participation in education. Moreover, it is intended to level out the differences between individuals and groups in the population so as to make Swedish society more just and equal. Financial aid is primarily intended to cover a student’s living costs during their education. Financial aid for studies is also an important part of the Swedish welfare system.

Great emphasis is given in Sweden to opportunities to study abroad at post-upper secondary level. Generous conditions therefore exist for obtaining student aid for studies abroad. Students abroad are also able to take out extra loans for additional costs in connection with their studies. In 2012, 900,000 students applied for study aid. This tax supported, government covered program underwrites the cost for more than 900,000 students, which equated to 2.6 billion Euros.

For more information about CSN visit their website: http://www.csn.se/en/2.1034/2.1036

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Acquiring accurate and comparable tuition data from other academic institutions is a challenging task. Institutions report tuition in a variety of ways. In addition, some institutions operate on a semester system, others on a quarter system.

In its annual MBA School Ranking the San Diego Business Journal identified CIBU as the second lowest nonresident tuition within the top ten MBA schools by enrollment in the Fall Quarter of 2014.

At $13,841 per year, the CIBU tuition for nonresidents is 57.35% lower than the average of $21,779 in San Diego County and 18.07% lower than the average of $16,343 among the four private non-profit institutions, University of Redlands, Brandman University, Webster University, and Alliant International University.

The bottom line is clear: CIBU offers the second lowest cost MBA among 13 San Diego county institutions. Coupled with the fact that a CIBU education offers small class sizes with significant personal attention to each student, it is obvious that a CIBU education is highly competitive from both quantitative and qualitative levels.

What also sets CIBU apart from the competition is the practicality of our educational programs focused on business management and entrepreneurship, and professional teaching staff, with a majority being working professionals in law, finance, and business, as well as entrepreneurs.

For students who are seeking the quantitative benefits of a cost-effective education, with the qualitative benefits of small, rigorous, personalized programs – CIBU is an extraordinarily attractive option.

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It is with distinct pleasure that we feature Dr. Marcus Andrew Benniefield as the profiled faculty member of the month. Dr. Benniefield has been involved with CIBU for many years now – as a student in the doctoral program and as an employee who has been Director of Student Affairs, Assistant to the President, and, most recently, Director of Compliance and Institutional Development who ensures that we all understand – and comply with – all aspects of compliance with both local, state and federal government mandates, governing bodies and accrediting agencies. By this time he knows the in’s and out’s of the university about as well as anyone in the institution.

Dr. Benniefield was born in San Diego California, the last of three siblings. During high school he developed an interest in finance and marketing, and, in particular, reflecting the ideas of Michael and George Belch. He continued to pursue this interest during his undergraduate years at San Diego State University. After receiving his B.S. degree, Dr. Benniefield decided to continue studying Business Administration at the University of Phoenix. Here, he had the opportunity to study under important professorsincluding Nancy (Nan) MacIsaac, Antonio Vianna, and Richard Brydges.

Dr. Benniefield was influenced by his professors to continue studying business. As a result, he continued his studies at California International Business University, where he earned the D.B.A. degree. He chose to apply statistics to the analysis of the California and Arizona homeowner insurance industry’s strategies in response to climate change as the topic for his dissertation. Dr. Thomas Matula, a faculty member at CIBU who was one of Dr. Benniefield’s thesis advisors, encouraged him to pursue this topic, noting the impact of climate change. While researching the then current understanding of climate change risk for insurers, which at the time consisted of models by Matthew Paterson, Dr. Benniefield realized that the theory lacked an analysis of the impact of risk. This insight led to the development of his theory of climate risk diversification under uncertainty.

With Dr. Matula’s help, Dr. Benniefield started to research climate change risk to insurers, developing a model for the identification of climate change risk and relying on what was later named the Climate Change Response Assessment. Later he received his D.B.A. from CIBU with a thesis on the climate risk diversification theory. The topic was so controversial that while he was defending his dissertation one of his advisors jokingly argued that there is no convincing evidence of climate change. He went on to publish his work on climate risk diversification and will use the foundation to write a book on the subject.

Dr. Benniefield teaches Finance and Economics at CIBU while also serving as one of the administrators who has played an integral role in the ongoing welfare of the institution. He also has taught outside of America, completing an exchange of visits with Taiwanese professors. In the future, too, we expect that he will represent CIBU as a faculty member in different countries around the world.

Everyone who has been acquainted with CIBU for some time knows Dr. Benniefield and deeply appreciates his commitment to the university and his willingness to do whatever is asked of him. To be sure, he has left a profound imprint on CIBU over the years with his dedication and loyalty to CIBU, its faculty, alumni, students and community. We might even suggest that his very name is appropriate – “Mark His Benefit!” – to CIBU and to all CIBU affiliates.

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Following several years of collaboration and exchange, San Diego’s California International Business University & Copenhagen’s Niels Brock Copenhagen Business College are joining forces in a unique educational partnership creating a Danish-American business educational institution in America’s Finest City.

Offering a Truly Contemporary and Global Foundation for Practical Learning

In an increasingly global marketplace, these two institutions with shared missions and visions have realized the synergistic value of joining forces. San Diego and Copenhagen share a similar population size, seafaring history, and global port and trade focus. These institutions are bridging the American and Scandinavian learning methodologies and practical and effective approach to business education.

Brad McDearman, fellow and director of Metro Trade and Investment at Brookings said: “San Diego was selected to be part of the Global Cities Exchange due to its unique cross-border dynamic, Pacific Rim location, demonstrated regional collaboration, and commitment to being more intentional about positioning the region globally. San Diego is a region with tremendous potential in international markets.”

“San Diego is an ideal community that has rapidly assumed a position as one of the top entrepreneurial marketplaces in the United States” says CIBU Vice President, Lauren Woo, “while it’s great that magazines such as Forbes have recognized us as a best city to start a business, we must prepare future entrepreneurs for successful start-up. This begins with a truly global education.”

Celebrating 20 years in 2015, CIBU has alumni in 35 countries across the globe. By partnering with Niels Brock Copenhagen Business College, CIBU Bachelors, Masters, and Doctoral degrees will take on a greater global significance and exposure.

The mission of the California International Business University is to advance the standards for evidence-based improvement of student learning and practical educational experiences through critical thinking, cultural intelligence and analytical competence in preparing graduates to excel in an entrepreneurial environment and a maturing global market.

The vision of CIBU was developed based on the need for international business schools in the United States. CIBU is a school in a growth-oriented business environment in the United States, which brings together young aspirants from countries of the world who study together with excellent faculty in a collaborative spirit.

Niels Brock Copenhagen Business College, founded in 1881, is one of Denmark’s largest educational institutions serving more than 20,000 students and course participants within the country, as well as over 1,500 students in China. Niels Brock has more than 130 years of experience delivering business and commerce education.

At Niels Brock, their mission is ambitiously and constantly dedicated to developing and offering relevant education programs that ensure the right competences for the corporate world and optimize the possibilities of the individual. That is Niels Brock’s contribution to Danish and foreign competitiveness.

It is the vision of Niels Brock to remain the most international and innovative business school in Denmark, recognized for our skilled teachers who optimize the students learning process.

The result of this partnership is a “Danish American Business School” with a global perspective and international reach. This new institution, whose programs are based in San Diego and Copenhagen, offers study abroad programs in China, Vietnam, Myanmar, Kazakhstan, and the United Kingdom.

A Uniquely Global & Practical Learning Experience

“At Niels Brock, we very much look forward to our new partnership with CIBU. The value for students and companies in combining the Scandinavian way of teaching, that focuses on student involvement and independency, with the American way of commercial thinking, is unique, and a model case for future educational partnerships.” says Anya Eskildsen, President of Niels Brock.

With a board consisting of educational and business leaders from the United States, Denmark, and the UK, this is a truly global collaboration. As their collaboration develops, it will expand business generation and opportunities for both cities, nations, and the global markets they draw students from, and send faculty to.

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There is much discussion in educational circles recently about “employability” – that is, the degree to which students of a university are ready for employment when they graduate. From the Department of Education (DOE), to accreditation agencies, to universities, employability has become an important topic for consideration, particularly given the need for well-trained, skillful employees who can hit the ground running when they take up a new position and given the need of students to find appropriate work in an economy that continues to face many challenges, not the least of which is a tectonic shift in job trends and skills required.

At CIBU, employability is a primary focus. We want our students to graduate with useful skills, and with an education that will help them find suitable work. Though education is far more than simply a means to an end (career and employment), finding a job, or starting a productive enterprise is highly important to students and to the companies they will serve or start-up.

CIBU faculty are asked to address “Employability” as a specific focus on their course syllabi. CIBU faculty develop a comprehensive “Employability Skills Framework,” based upon Department of Education (DOE) research.

Briefly, the Framework looks at employability through three distinct emphases, which comprise nine skill areas:

1. APPLIED KNOWLEDGE (i.e., 1. Critical Thinking, 2. Applied Academic Skills)
2. EFFECTIVE RELATIONSHIPS (i.e., 3. Interpersonal Skills, 4. Personal Qualities)
3. WORKPLACE SKILLS (i.e., 5. Resource Management, 6. Information Use, 7. Communication Skills, 8. Systems Thinking, 9. Technology Use)

This is an extraordinarily useful taxonomy that helps CIBU faculty and administrators think about employability and business development skills while also reflecting on what a business curriculum that includes employability as an important consideration.

With the Framework in mind, I attempted to analyze how our current MBA curriculum, for example, reflects (or fails to reflect) the 9 skill areas included in that Framework. My analysis is largely my interpretation, of course. Nevertheless, I believe it provides a reasonable perspective on the extent to which the MBA curriculum embodies each of the 9 skill areas:

1. APPLIED KNOWLEDGE:

1. Critical Thinking:

• This is embedded in the CIBU “Mission” statement and the CIBU “Supporting Objectives,” and should therefore be an integral part of all MBA courses.

2. Applied Academic Skills:

• This too is embedded in our CIBU Mission statement and the CIBU “Goals” statement, and should therefore be an integral part of all MBA courses.

2. EFFECTIVE RELATIONSHIPS

3. Interpersonal Skills:

• CIBU 610: Organizational Development and Culture
• CIBU 620: Business Ethics
• CIBU 624: Strategic Management
• CIBU 626: Entrepreneurship
• CIBU 630: Operations Management
• CIBU 632: Negotiation and Legal Analysis
• CIBU 637: Public Relations and Advertising
• CIBU 645: Lifestyle Marketing and Media
• CIBU 646: International Marketing
• CIBU 667: Women in Leadership
• CIBU 668: Advertising
• CIBU 680: Business Internship
• CIBU 695: Project Management

4. Personal Qualities:

• CIBU 610: Organizational development and Culture
• CIBU 620: Business Ethics
• CIBU 624: Strategic Management
• CIBU 632: Negotiation and Legal Analysis
• CIBU 634: Portfolio Analysis
• CIBU 667: Women in Leadership
• CIBU 680: Business Internship
• CIBU Objectives

3. WORKPLACE SKILLS:

5. Resource Management:

• CIBU 610: Organizational Development and Culture
• CIBU 624: Strategic Management
• CIBU 625: Entrepreneurship
• CIBU 626: Human Resource Management
• CIBU 627: Corporate Finance
• CIBU 630: Operations Management
• CIBU 631: Managerial Accounting
• CIBU 634: Portfolio Analysis
• CIBU 636: International Business and Commerce (now Global Business)
• CIBU 637: Public Relations and Advertising
• CIBU 680: Business Internship
• CIBU 695: Project Management

6. Information Use:

• CIBU 610: Organizational Development and Culture
• CIBU 624: Strategic Management
• CIBU 629: Marketing
• CIBU 630: Operations management
• CIBU 631: Managerial Accounting
• CIBU 632: Negotiation and Legal Analysis
• CIBU 633: Economic Analysis
• CIBU 636: International Business and Commerce (now Global business)
• CIBU 637: Public Relations and Advertising
• CIBU 643: Management Information Systems
• CIBU 645: Lifestyle Marketing and Media
• CIBU 646: International Marketing
• CIBU 668: Advertising
• CIBU 680: Business Internship

7. Communication Skills:

• CIBU Objectives
• All 600-level courses

8. Systems Thinking:

• CIBU 610: Organizational Development and Culture
• CIBU 624: Strategic Management
• CIBU 630: Operations Management
• CIBU 633: Economic Analysis
• CIBU 636: International Business and Commerce (now Global Business)
• CIBU 643: Management Information Systems
• CIBU 667: Women in Leadership
• CIBU 680: Business Internship

9. Technology Use:

• CIBU 610: Organizational development and Culture
• CIBU 624: Strategic Management
• CIBU 635: Entrepreneurship
• CIBU 629: Marketing
• CIBU 630: Operations Management
• CIBU 633: Economic Analysis
• CIBU 645: Lifestyle Marketing and Media
• CIBU 668: Advertising
• CIBU 680: Business Internship

In summation, CIBU’s MBA program easily includes the nine skills areas of the DOE’s “Employability Skills framework.” A similar analysis would reveal that the same is true of CIBU’s BS and DBA curricula.

To be sure, a CIBU education offers much to promote employability. Courses offer the kinds of skills called for by today’s employers, and CIBU degree programs, such as the MBA, cover the essential skills areas many times over. Given the record of our graduates over the past 20 years in securing extraordinary opportunities in many countries around the globe, we have always known anecdotally that we deliver an education that is meaningful to employers. Now, however, with the obvious evidence that we clearly address the employability skills areas desired by employers, it becomes clear that we are delivering a highly useful, practical education that truly promotes employability.

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Dr. Tim Becker has been a faculty member at CIBU since 2009. He came to the university with exceptional teaching and business development experience in various industries in the United States and Australia. He is President of Total Recall Learning, an innovative learning/training software development company that tracks knowledge retention. He also has extensive experience in the areas of strategic management, new products, and business development. His practical experience includes marketing, management, and e-commerce.

Dr. Becker offers a unique blend of business experience and academic know-how in both classroom and administrative settings. His strengths include his high degree of initiative, his extraordinary creativity, his honed communication skills, his knowledge of and experience with marketing, and his ability to listen carefully to the needs of consumers and students alike.

He has served as a lecturer or instructor at universities including the University of Redlands, Point Loma Nazarene University, Webster University, the University of Phoenix, California State University at Fullerton, the University of San Diego, and San Diego State University. Besides his practical experience as President of Total Recall, he has extensive experience in the transportation and hospitality industries, having served as the Director of Marketing and Member Benefits for the International Airline Passengers Association, Director of Marketing for Western Union Travel Industry Services, Manager of Customer Service for Great Western Sugar Company, Director of Passenger Services for Braniff International Airlines, and Sales and Service Supervisor for American Airlines.

Dr. Becker has garnered distinguished teaching awards from the University of North Texas, San Diego State University, and the University of Phoenix. He also won the Braniff International Distinguished Service Award, and is a San Diego State University Career Center Hall of Fame Member.

Dr. Becker created and directs the New Business Venture Competition at CIBU, an annual competition among student business start-up concepts in undergraduate and graduate level entrepreneurship courses. Students regularly list his courses among the most “engaging and productive” at CIBU. He is an admired and respected instructor at the university.

Dr. Becker earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in German from Luther College in Decorah, Iowa. Subsequently, he earned a Master of Business Administration from the University of Dallas in Irving, Texas, and a Doctor of Business Administration, with a focus on Marketing, from United States International University in San Diego.

CIBU is fortunate to have such an innovative, experienced educator as Dr. Becker in its midst.

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Dr. Schlueter joined CIBU’s Faculty in 2013 and has since developed a keen affinity to our unique International University. He was born, raised and educated in Germany. At the University of Technology in Aachen, Germany he earned his Master Degrees in Engineering and Business Management and his Doctoral Degree in Engineering Physics. For his Business Management Studies, he was fortunate to receive a scholarship from Germany’s Volkswagen Corporation.

After a brief professional engagement in Germany, Dr. Schlueter started his career in the US with an employment at General Atomics Company’s nuclear energy program in San Diego. He began as a research engineer and worked himself into project management and internationally oriented program leadership positions where his education in business became a decisive foundation of his emerging career. After several stimulating assignments, such as chairman of an international technology transfer committee, Dr. Schlueter elected to become a self-employed business consultant.

As consultant and business developer for international firms and for startup operations, Dr. Schlueter keeps up with emerging trends in technological and business management matters. He employs cross-disciplinary assimilation techniques to create new business management concepts. Over the years he honed his skills as knowledgeable technologist and expert in business matters.

Dr. Schlueter teaches undergraduate and graduate level courses in Economics, Business Economics & Accounting, Strategic Planning, Corporate Finance, and New Product Development. He also assumes supervisory responsibilities within the University’s doctoral program. Just like technologists reduce theoretical physics to engineering applications, Dr. Schlueter reduces economic theories to practical engineering-type applications suitable for designing and effectively managing businesses thus maximizing sustainable profitability and growth. In this effort, he considers flexible dynamics and practical simplicity as his hallmark for global business strategies. This innovative business development technique is particularly valuable for his winter-quarter assignment. In his self-composed course of “New Product Development”, Dr. Schlueter offers his international students deep insight into the interwoven complexities of global product and business development strategies and teaches how flexible dynamics and practical simplicity can be the foundation of sustainable growth.

Dr. Schlueter and his wife Tosca raised two children who are established members of local communities. Tosca and Georg are living in San Diego North County’s Rancho Santa Fe and take pleasure in the outdoors. They like gardening, hiking, swimming and cross-country skiing, and they enjoy open ocean sailing.

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Following several years of collaboration and exchange, San Diego’s California International Business University & Copenhagen’s Niels BrockCopenhagen Business College are joining forces in a unique educational partnership creating a Danish-American business educational institution in America’s Finest City.

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Students choose CIBU for the outstanding instruction that is unique to the university because of its small class size and dedicated, experienced faculty. Our students can rest assured knowing that the first-rate education they chose to purse will provide them with a plethora of career opportunities one of which is entrepreneurship.

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Following several years of collaboration and exchange, San Diego’s California International Business University & Copenhagen’s Niels Brock Copenhagen Business College are joining forces in a unique educational partnership creating a Danish-American business educational institution in America’s Finest City.

Our Danish students are known for bringing “hygge” to San Diego.  So what is Danish hygge? Take a tour of “hygge” in Copenhagen – Swedish Anna was sent to investigate what this ‘hygge’ is all about, see what she finds out!

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CIBU is one of only few nationally accredited, private, international universities.  Our institution is accredited by the Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools (ACICS), 750 First Street NE, Suite 980, Washington D.C. 20002-4241, (202) 336-6780, to award bachelor’s degrees, master’s degrees and doctoral degrees. ACICS is listed as a nationally recognized accrediting agency by the United States Department of Education and is recognized by the Council for Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA).

ACICS accreditation is a gateway for access to education. Recognized by ED and CHEA as a reliable authority on the quality of education, ACICS-accredited colleges and schools are eligible to participate in Title IV federal Œ nancial aid programs.

ACICS is a trans-regional and trans-national accrediting authority. It is authorized to accredit institutions within a state and a region, as well as across regions (trans-regional). ACICS is also recognized as a reliable authority in foreign countries. ­ is means ACICS accreditation allows institutions to operate in multiple regions of the country as well as internationally, without having to seek multiple (and often costly) regional accreditations.

Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools (ACICS) was founded in 1912 to establish and advance the quality of education and the standards of excellence at private post-secondary schools and colleges. The organization has a long history as an authorized national accrediting organization, and is one of only two national accrediting bodies that are recognized by both the U.S. Department of Education (ED) and the Council for Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA) as a reliable authority on institutional quality. ACICS has been recognized continuously by the Department of Education since 1956.

For more information about our University’s accreditation and accreditor-ACICS- click here.

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Welcome to 72 Degrees Magazine, Welcome to San Diego, and Welcome to California International Business University’s celebration of student life in America’s Finest City.

There’s more to the name just a reference to our nearly ideal year-round weather, 72 Degrees celebrates the lifestyle of students pursuing their education at CIBU. Several times each week, we present food and beverage, travel, entertainment, and other local highlights that celebrate San Diego.

Let check out 72 Degrees Magazine and tell us what you think.

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CIBU has given high priority to promoting and defending Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools (ACICS) accreditation, and the quality of education delivered by CIBU and member institutions. We believe that we, as well as member institutions, play an important role acting as the eyes and ears of ACICS; that is, looking and listening for opportunities to promote ACICS accreditation, and to correct misinformation that may lead to negative perceptions and attitudes among policy makers, the post-secondary education community and the general public. We have received questions from prospective students and other members of the public concerning our accreditation.  There are complex issues surround college accreditation and the differences between national and regional accrediting agencies. We have decided to republish a letter by the Executive Director and CEO of our accreditor, Dr. Albert C. Gray, that addressed myths and lies concerning accreditation and education in the United States.

Letter to USA Today

Transfer of Credit Practices – Defy Student, Public Interest.
Editor, USA Today

Your recent story about career colleges gives an oversimplified view of the complex issues surrounding college accreditation and the differences between national and regional accrediting agencies.  The Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools (ACICS) and other national agencies that accredit degree-granting colleges maintain and enforce standards that are virtually identical to regional accreditation standards.  ACICS, the largest of the national accrediting agencies for predominantly degree granting colleges, accredits more than 835 institutions of higher learning.  The national and regional agencies are equally recognized by the U.S. Department of Education (DOE), and ACICS and the regional agencies are also recognized by the Council for Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA), an association of 3,000 degree-granting colleges and universities.  While your article claims that regional accreditation is considered most rigorous and prestigious, neither DOE nor CHEA subscribe to that belief.  They should know; they make in-depth, multi-month reviews of all recognized accreditors every five years, and those that fall below standards lose their authority.

Many career colleges are nationally accredited and offer degree programs that provide the same curricula as their regionally accredited counterparts, taught by faculty with the same credentials and using the same textbooks in a facility with the same (or even better) resources.  Yet some regionally accredited institutions will not accept transfer credits from a nationally accredited institution.  This is contrary to the student and public interest.  These institutions should be required to justify this policy on the basis of objective data and analysis.  CHEA and the regional agencies have stated that transfer-credit decisions should not be based solely on the source of the sending college’s accreditation.

What is clear is that these arbitrary transfer rules amount to a waste of taxpayer money and discriminate against students who have performed admirably at nationally accredited colleges.  It is quite possible that the student mentioned in your story whose credits from her for profit school would not transfer to a regional accredited institution was well served by her college, but poorly served by the university that arbitrarily refused to accept transfer of academic credit.

Students who attend nationally accredited career colleges are investing their time, money, and sweat to obtain an education and credentials that will allow them to enter the workforce in their field of choice.  Perpetuating the myth that regional accreditation is somehow superior to national accreditation diminishes the value of their education, and makes them victims of arbitrary, unfair practices.  The regional accreditors, DOE, CHEA, and most importantly the facts don’t support this myth.  We appreciate the opportunity to clear the air on this matter.

Dr. Albert C. Gray

Executive Director and CEO

ACICS

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The San Diego region is poised to strengthen its economy through increased global activity. In an increasingly integrated world economy, more strategic global economic engagement will prove crucial to San Diego’s sustained economic competitiveness. With a keen understanding of San Diego’s current situation and a collective desire to improve the region’s global position, key stakeholders have organized themselves around one unifying goal: maximize San Diego’s economic competitiveness and prosperity through increased global engagement.

From “Go Global San Diego: A Global Trade and Investment Initiative,” March 2015

 Given its very mission – “… preparing graduates to excel in an entrepreneurial environment and a maturing global market,” the international composition of its student body, its partnerships with other institutions around the globe, and its focus on an international curriculum and cultural intelligence, CIBU is poised to contribute to the “Go Global San Diego” initiative. To be sure, CIBU is doing much to ensure that San Diego moves toward “increased global engagement.”

On March 11, Dr. William Howe, CIBU’s Dean of Academic Affairs, attended the “Go Global San Diego” meeting in nearby La Jolla. Over 300 people attended this important meeting, including Mayor Kevin Faulconer, members of the San Diego City Council, and leaders from business, education, law, science, and other areas of San Diego professional life.  The focus of the meeting and subsequent initiatives related to the meeting is clear: San Diego has a unique opportunity at this point to become increasingly global, but it has some work to do in order to maximize its potential: At present, for example, San Diego is the 17^th largest metro as measured by GDP in the United States, but it is 61^st in export intensity and 49^th in percentage of jobs in foreign-owned firms. CIBU, though certainly a small part of the San Diego economy and of the area’s GDP, has a unique international focus that in many ways encapsulates the “Go Global San Diego” spirit. Its name, its internationally attuned faculty, and its international student body epitomize the importance of the region’s global identity. Moreover, through its collaborative approach with San Diego businesses, CIBU echoes the “Go Global San Diego” emphasis on a “collaborative approach drawing on the relative strengths of dedicated government, industry, and academic partners.” To be sure, CIBU is one of the academic partners that most directly advances global identity.

San Diego is ready to increase its global identity. CIBU already has a global identity within San Diego. Going forward there is much room for productive synergy.

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Valerio Marino MBA (left)
Geschäftsführer (CEO)

1.How did your studies in the USA help in your current position?

Quite a lot. Working with different people from various cultures across the globe helps to understand differences. Further, the fact that the whole program is in the US made me stronger as a person and helped me to prepare for unexpected situations and develop an ability to respond.

2. What was the most valuable lesson you learned in your education at CIBU?
I learned techniques for problem solving and an understanding of the ways in which people think and react in different situations. More importantly, I learned to be respectful and empathetic in a variety of situations with my employees.

3. What was your favorite class? Why?
I enjoyed all of my classes and professors. But Judge Sturgeon’s class was different in a great way. We learned about the US legal system, and visiting a US court was a very good experience. The entrepreneurship course with Brian Hawkins was awesome including the study tour with visits to companies including Apple Inc. in Silicon Valley and San Francisco was more than a great experience.

4. What is the greatest challenge you see for your industry in today’s marketplace?
I would say making changes and understanding how a single change may affect others in the organization. It is difficult to make people comfortable with change even if they may not like the idea. Furthermore, it is difficult to make adjustments in cases where the change was not the right decision. I have learned that in these cases one has to restart the process and develop a new solution.

5. What would you say is the greatest change occurring in your industry?
Very difficult but I have simple answer. Since the whole world is changing at a frenetic pace, Dormero’s management and our team are prepared for and engaged in making the great changes necessary.

6. What’s the greatest pleasure you get in your work?
Working with smart and enthusiastic people. I enjoy seeing how important it is to be part of a system and transferring change through this system and our employees. Each step of the way it is vital to explain to the team how to act in the world of business and help them to find their own way, path by path.

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