Candice Nance Joins Cañada to Build a High-Flying International Business Program
Thu, 24 January, 2013 at 8:51 amThe former Ohlone College instructor has a passion for business and flying
San Jose’s Candice Nance is ready to build an international business
program at Cañada College that soars as high as some of the vintage aircraft
that she loves.
“With the current globalization of the workforce, there is a huge
demand for workers with both business and cultural skills,” she said. “Today’s
students need to understand the bigger picture in business and the
ever-changing business world.”
Because Cañada sits at the edge of Silicon Valley, students don’t have
to look far to see the impacts of globalization on the business world. “If they
open the paper they can see that local companies such as Twitter, Facebook, and
Google are struggling around the globe with privacy and access issues as they
try to work under different laws.”
Nance is developing courses at Cañada in International Business,
International Marketing, International Business Law, and International Finance.
She is working to align the school’s curriculum with the North American Small
Business International Trade Educators Association Certified Global Business
Professional Credential. It is considered the benchmark for competency in
global commerce.
“The goal is to have the college become a certified training center,”
she said. “Having CGPB credentials will bring students to the college to study
international business but they’ll also take other classes so it will be
positive for other academic areas of the college.”
While Nance is passionate about building a strong international
business program at Cañada, she’s also passionate about flying. She is a
self-described aviation fanatic with more than 200 hours of flight time in
small aircraft. She pilots Citabria and Cessna aircraft. “My most memorable
flights were in a Tigermoth biplane out of Duxford Airport in Cambridge,
England and in a P-51 Mustang out of Livermore.”