The Strategic Plan for the Internationalization of Universidad de Monterrey

Author: 
Thomas Buntru-Wenzler
Publisher: 
CONAHEC
Year of Publication: 
2010

Universidad de Monterrey has developed an ambitious strategic plan for internationalization. The plan received the 2009 Andrew Heiskell Award for Innovation in Internationalization from the Institute of International Education (IIE). This presentation gives an overview of the plan, highlighting the advances so far and the challenges still lying ahead.

Event Information
Event Title: 
CONAHEC's 13th North American Higher Education Conference - Houston 2010
Event Description: 

Join leaders and practitioners of higher education, business, government and students at Rice University in the city of Houston, Texas for CONAHEC’s 13th North American Higher Education Conference!North Americans share many historical, cultural, and linguistic bonds and have many common issues to face. Since the signing of NAFTA, our region has become the largest trading block in the world, inextricably linked by growing economic ties. Leaders in North America recognize that regional and individual community prosperity depends largely on the global competencies of our future professionals -- today's students.A decade and a half into NAFTA, it is evident that our region must develop stronger, more productive and more resilient linkages both internally and with other world regions. Governmental and educational leaders acknowledge that higher education institutions in North America must be more proactive in offering students opportunities to gain international expertise by becoming more internationally oriented while simultaneously strengthening local connections in their teaching, research and public service functions. Higher education has an important role to play in strengthening North America and connecting it with the rest of the world.