SSC - Center for International Business & Economic Studies

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CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS

AND ECONOMIC STUDIES

History of CIBES

October 1987

Syrous Kooros, the first Dean of the School of Business, proposed the establishment of the Center for International Management Studies.

September 1988

The International Business Committee was formed. Massoud Farahbakhsh and John Mack were elected Co-Chairs.

March 1989

The International Business Committee proposed a Specialty in International Business.

March 1991

Salem State College became an active member of the Tufts University/Bentley College Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER), a federally funded program.

May 1994

Wayne Burton, Dean of the School of Business and Economics and Albert Hamilton, Vice President of Academic Affairs, formed the Center for International Business and Economic Studies (CIBES) and appointed Massoud Farahbakhsh as its founding Executive Director.

September 1998

International Business Concentration was offered for the first time as a new option to the students.

May 2001

The first students in Day and Evening programs graduated with an International Business Concentration.

September 2001

Two French students from Sup de Co-Montpellier in France joined the MBA/DESCM program. This double degree program is the first such agreement program in the history of SSC.

September 2003

The number of students in the undergraduate International Business Concentration exceeded fifty students.

2004-2006

The undergraduate International Business Concentration went through major revisions in the concentration electives area, offering more options to the students.

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