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The Steven A. Denning Faculty Award for Global Engagement Awarded to John McIntyre

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The Steven A. Denning Award for Global Engagement recognizes a Georgia Tech faculty member who has demonstrated sustained outstanding achievement and commitment to the advancement of the Institute’s global engagement. The award includes a $5,000 stipend. This program is funded through the generous support provided in the establishment of the Steven A. Denning Chair in Global Engagement.

This award seeks to recognize a tenured or tenure-track faculty member who has made a significant and sustainable impact in one or more of the following areas:

- Promoting the recognition of Georgia Tech in other countries
- Advancing research, education, and economic development engagement at the international level
- Enriching the experiences of international students or scholars
- Incorporating global perspectives in teaching or international components into the curriculum
- Giving of their time and influence to organize and/or promote international events, visitors, or other international exchanges at Georgia Tech
- Creating new ideas, structures, procedures, or products which promise to eliminate international inequalities, to promote global cooperation, or to foster respect for human dignity among nations and peoples of the world.

2015 Recipient 
Professor John McIntyre, Professor in the Scheller College of Business, and Executive Director of the Georgia Tech’s Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER).

Dr. McIntyre is founding Director of the Georgia Tech CIBER, Professor of management in the Scheller College of Business, with a courtesy appointment in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs.  Since 1993, Dr. McIntyre has been a major force driving the internationalization of Georgia Tech, leading the GT-CIBER center for more than twenty years, and winning again in 2014 another four-year renewal as of one of 17 national centers of excellence funded by the U.S. Department of Education.  Last year, half of CIBERs around the nation lost their funding due to extreme budgetary cut backs by the federal funding agencies for international education funds.  However, Dr. McIntyre tireless efforts secured another four year of funding for GT-CIBER, to continue the exchange partnership with more than 20 universities around the globe, and strengthen international collaborations for faculty and students (undergraduate and graduate) and grow the global business ecosystem of Metro Atlanta. GT-CIBER has positively impacted thousands of students on campus. Dr. McIntyre was instrumental in helping frame the International Plan and supporting the LBAT program.  In the past few years, Dr. McIntyre also created and developed the Georgia Tech Global Business Forum, the ChinaGoesGlobal consortium and annual research conference, the Research Symposium on Globalization of Business Higher Education, and co-created the US-India Business Forum, the education and business community to international economic and business opportunities. Dr. McIntyre has raised significant competitive grants that have enhanced the international visibility of Georgia Tech, including: providing seed grants and various summer support, establishing over 20 Georgia Tech international-related courses in various disciplines, creating innovative undergraduate partnerships and programs that include foreign languages and global economics, supporting students for study or work abroad. Dr. McIntyre’s impact on the internationalization of Georgia Tech has been sustained and profound.

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  • Created By:Andrea Harris
  • Created:03/05/2015
  • Modified By:Fletcher Moore
  • Modified:10/07/2016

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