Turkey project 277-0357 · 1966–1968 · higher education, universities and scholarships

Project to help Turkey's four public economic/commercial graduate academies, in conjunction with Michigan State University (MSU), improve their graduate programs in business administration (BA). The project will focus on curricula revision and expansion and promoting specialization, faculty training, and enhancing research capability and academic/business community cooperation. To provide each academy with the nucelus of a BA department, current curricula will be revised and/or expanded to include courses in managerial accounting and economics, marketing and market research, management and administration, business finance, and quantitative methods. Basic BA texts will be translated into Turkish and new and modern texts written in collaboration with Turkish faculty, case materials will be developed and the case method introduced into classroom teaching, and electives developed in the third and fourth years to allow greater concentration in areas of specialization. Academy faculty will be strengthened through U.S. and in-country training. Some 110 junior faculty members will receive 220 person-years of training in M.B.A. programs at MSU, and 30 professors and docents will receive 1

Source: DEC abstract, PD-AAG-675 (1968). The source's own text.