BUFFALO, NY – Canisius University Professor of Management Coral Snodgrass, PhD, and several Canisius students were recently recognized by X-Culture, a non-profit project dedicated to educating college students about international business. It operates on the enthusiasm and unpaid effort of its instructors.
More than 4,000 students from 104 universities took part in X-Culture in 2014-2. Students are put in global virtual teams of 5-8 students (each from a different country). For several weeks, they work together on business projects presented by X-Culture’s corporate partners. Students learn the challenges and best practices of cross-cultural virtual collaboration.
Snodgrass was selected as a “best instructor” for her teaching excellence, student and peer evaluations, dedication, effort and preparedness.
Two Canisius students were recognized as a “best student” for their excellence as reported in peer evaluations, quality of their individual contributions in team reports, their ability to meet deadlines and other performance records.
- Jessie Bower MBA ’15, a graduate student pursuing her master’s degree in business administration.
- Michael Anczok ’15, who recently graduated with a master’s degree in business administration degree (accounting).
Brent Gray ’15, an MBA student concentrating in international business, was a member of Team #218, which was selected as one of only 10 designated as a “best team.” Criteria included quality of the reports produced by all 521 teams. Each report was evaluated for its economic feasibility, creativity and novelty of the ideas, depth of the analysis, strength of the arguments, formatting and readability, and overall quality.
Canisius is one of 28 Jesuit universities and the premier private university in Western New York.
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