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...25th year and the Business School's International Teachers program is also thriving. Although less that 10 percent of the Mason fellows come from a strictly academic background, a substantial number of the program graduates become a channel of academic export upon returning to their home countries, says Nancy Pyle, director of the program. In developing countries, governments maintain closer links with universities, frequently asking former ministers to teach, Pyle notes. In addition, the contacts the fellows make with K-School professors often prompt them to ask for help in setting up programs based on their K-School experience...
...Pyle said that some Mason-fellows are so impressed with what they have learned about management that they want to import their favorite courses lock, stock, and barrel. One former minister in the Burmese government upon returning home from his year as a Mason fellow persuaded his government to establish a K-School course on microeconomics as part of the curriculum at the University of Rangoon. He wired the Kennedy School and asked for the entire course packet to be sent special delivery...
Accompanying the students are academic dean Albert Carnesale. John W. Thomas, lecturer on public policy, and Nancy S. Pyle, director of the Mason program...
...going to be all sightseeing," Pyle said yesterday. "It's mostly a business trip...
...Pyle said the trip is designed to give Third World leaders a chance to study the development and the administration of other Third World nations through tours, meetings and seminars. "It's a field trip we've included as part of the Mason Program for the past several years...