Rutgers-Camden Faculty Advise Doctoral Students in South Africa
Earlier this summer, Rutgers School of Business, Camden Dean Jaishankar Ganesh and marketing professor Julie Ruth traveled to South Africa to participate in a doctoral consortium at Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University. The consortium kicked off the the Emerging Markets Conference, a three-day annual conference that invites professors from all over the world to advise doctoral students who are conducting research on emerging markets.
“The purpose of any doctoral consortium is to bring doctoral students to a gathering place so they can meet seasoned faculty to get more guidance and support about academic life,” said Ruth in a press release issued by the school. “The consortium served as a way for these students to make connections with scholars from around the world so we could become collaborators with them, either formally or informally.”
Ganesh and Ruth were joined in Port Elizabeth by Rutgers–Camden marketing professors Carol Kaufman-Scarborough and Yuliya Strizhakova, who served as track co-chairs at the conference.
Rutgers-Camden has a longstanding relationship with South Africa, sending students there each year over spring break. This year, over 70 students, including business students, journeyed to the country to take classes and explore the culture.
“Coupled with our students’ service learning efforts in South Africa, this most recent collaboration between our business school and the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University is a natural progression that builds on our long-term involvement with South Africa,” Ganesh added in the release.
