Presents a project where educators assign a joint class project to students at the University of Northern Carolina at Greensboro, at Indiana University, and at Fachhochschule Rheinland-Pfalz in Worms, Germany. Discusses how team members use the Internet to participate in electronic meetings leading to a group consensus. Encourages readers to…

Describes a job search project for business communication students where they are required to use the resources of their university's career planning and placement center. (SR)

Uses an international framework of work-related values to offer 13 practical suggestions for improving the effectiveness of training initiatives directed at Mexican Americans. Notes implications for universities as well. (SR)

Describes helping business students prepare for job interviews and other business events by learning and practicing business etiquette at a dinner set up by business-communication instructors and the university food service. (SR)

Describes how Rice University's Jones Graduate School of Management achieves their mission for the communication program. Discusses three keys to the success of the program: individual coaching, integrated team instruction, and constant assessment of the students and the program. Presents an overview of the program. (SG)

Presents a model outlining 10 steps for developing and implementing a Communication across the Curriculum (CAC) program, written from the authors' experience as coordinators of the CAC program at their university. Notes also inputs and resources needed to implement such a program, which offers an integrated approach for developing students'…

Finds that California State University at Northridge Business Faculty perceive their students to have problems with basic writing skills as well as with sophisticated writing concepts and techniques and seem to agree on the content that should be included in a business communication course. Recommends guidelines for revising the business…

Presents a case (based upon an actual situation that occurred between an insurance underwriter and a major university) used in a business writing course. Notes that the assignment requires students to compose a letter that addresses complaints, conveys bad news, maintains good will, and attempts to persuade the reader to renew a contract under…

Notes that university students know little about the realities of the workplace. Explains an assignment in which students interview a person currently working in a job that logically follows their major. Explains how to find the appropriate interviewee, and how to prepare, conduct, and report on the interview. Notes that end-of-class evaluations…