Belgian business students arrive in Georgia

Dalton State, Georgia welcomes three business students from Brussels who are learning the American way of business in the classroom and from local industry partners, the Daily Citizen reports. The students are from Hogeschool Universiteit Brussel (HUB), which partnered with Dalton State two years ago to provide cultural and educational exchanges for students and faculty of both institutions. “We are excited to have our second group of exchange students from Belgium,” said Larry Johnson, interim dean of the school of business. “We partnered with HUB two years ago to promote international understanding and cooperation that benefits each institution’s academic, professional and intercultural activities. Faculty and administrators have been to each other’s institution and we plan to have Dalton State students attend HUB in the 2013-2014 academic year.” The Belgian students are rooming with other Dalton State students at the college’s Wood Valley apartment complex and attending class and senior seminars in the school of business. In addition to their classroom studies, they are each placed with local industry partners to learn American business practices. A highlight of the exchange will be when HUB professor Johan Vanhaverbeke travels to Dalton later this month to talk about change management in international marketing and sales. The educational exchange is an extension of the city of Dalton’s sister city relationship with Dilbeek, just outside Brussels. Dalton and Dilbeek were twinned in 1985.