Border PACT is a network of U.S. and Mexican higher education institutions dedicated to building human capacity through education and training. Border PACT was first co-convened by CONAHEC, the American Council on Education (ACE) and the Asociación Nacional de Universidades e Instituciones de Educación Superior (ANUIES) in 1997 with the support of The Ford Foundation.

Given the environmental, socioeconomic and institutional diversity that exists along the U.S.-Mexico border, CONAHEC has organized the borderlands into four regions:

Region 1: California/Baja California;
Region 2: Arizona/Sonora;
Region 3: New Mexico, West Texas/Chihuahua; and,
Region 4: Central & East Texas/Coahuila, Nuevo Leon & Tamaulipas

Mission

Border PACT’s mission is to increase higher education institutions’ involvement as agents of change in the borderlands communities where they are located. Members of the network accept their responsibility to become part of the solution to the many challenges faced by their borderlands communities. Border PACT encourages its higher education institutions to expand their circle of partners and link with community-based organizations, government agencies, and the business sector.