Additional NIU College of Business efforts in the global arena from the mid 1980s to the mid 1990s include, among others: logistics and management training in Finland and Egypt; a five-year USAID funded effort to revitalize the curriculum, teaching methods, and textbooks used within Poland's university system; a five-year semester-long student and faculty exchange program with an academic institution in Russia; and, an annually conducted study-abroad program in the Middle East.