ACC Newsletter FA07.pub - University of Illinois Springfield

Fall—2007
DR. CLAUSEN IN CHINA
Zhejiang University, one of China’s top universities, invited Dr. Tom Clausen, one of the department of accountancy’s
new faculty, to teach this summer in their MBA and Elite Entrepreneurship programs. Dr. Clausen taught Managerial
Finance to both MBA students and elite students in the undergraduate entrepreneurship major.
The experience was his first international teaching assignment. “The students were fluent in English, which made the
transition much easier,” commented Dr. Clausen. While at Zhejiang University, he was a judge in the semi-finals and
the finals of the second annual English business case competition. During the competition, student teams presented
their solutions to a business case in the semi-finals. In the finals, the teams were given a new case and a limited time
to develop their proposed solutions and critiqued the other team’s solution. Dr. Clausen was impressed by both the
skills the used to develop solutions to the case and the English language skill they used to critique each other’s case
solutions.
Dr. Clausen enjoyed the opportunity to visit China and believes he learned as much from the students as they learned
from him. He hopes to have the opportunity to visit Zhejiang University and China in the future.
DR. CLAUSEN’S CHINA
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