P1246990960JquTK

1
MAKING INSTITUTIONAL PARTNERSHIP PART OF YOUR
INTERNATIONALIZATION STRATEGY. A CETYS
UNIVERSITY SYSTEM EXPERIENCES
February 6, 2006.
2
BACKGROUND

• The 21st century and globalization have brought
  changes and increased the links among people in
  dramatic fashion.
• Interdependence is now a key word in every corner
  of the world, it has intensified contact and
  interaction among people whose cultural and
  social backgrounds are completely different.
• This provides an opportunity to change the
  educational paradigm that allows us to go beyond
  mere unilateral exchange, that is, with only one
  group or nation.
• It allows us to consider and develop new
  abilities in our graduates while generating
  competitive advantages.
• As we enter this new century, we must develop
  these abilities and competencies in a clear and
  urgent manner.

3
BACKGROUND

• CETYS University is a private, multi campus and
  non profit Mexican institution.
• Membership ANUIES, accredited by FIMPES and
  currently candidacy process of WASC
• CETYS Educational Model is composed of three main
  parts
• Philosophical principles
• Educational principles
• Educational characteristics (Matices) humanism,
  values, entrepreneurial spirit and international
  dimension.
• The internationalization dimension is an
  initiative that aspires to create in CETYS an
  environment that fosters an educational
  experience that allows students to perform as
  competitive professionals and humans in modern
  society.

4
DEFINITIONS

• Internationalization is considered as a process
  that seeks to broaden the general or traditional
  development of students and individuals from a
  national framework, which has its merits, to a
  more inclusive one that transcends borders and
  prepares them to be citizens of the world.
• Internationalization implies establishing
  strategies that prepare students and University
  community to became part of a multicultural
  society with a wealth of diversity, languages and
  lifestyles.
• This multicultural vision challenges stereotypes,
  promotes diversity, helps in finding new ways of
  developing value adding activities and forces
  changes that are necessary for improvement in all
  fields.
• Global vision is the ability and values that must
  be developed by the student to analyze problems
  and come up with solutions taken the whole world
  into consideration.

5
OBJECTIVES

• To provide students with the opportunity to
  acquire an international dimension so they can
  increase the value of the educational experience
  and will provide ideas and the basis for future
  development at the local and international level.
• To develop a global mindset in the students and
  personnel at CETYS Community, with a basic
  understanding of other countries, sensibility
  towards other cultures, basic knowledge of other
  languages and the abilities required in the
  modern workplace to be competitive in the
  increasingly integrated world.
•  
• To develop programs and educational services in
  alliance with foreign universities and
  institutions that support the quality of the
  international university characteristic.

6
STRATEGIES

• The international dimension is integrated by six
  main strategies
• Curriculum.
• Faculty and Students Mobility
• Foreign students
• International technical development and
  cooperation
• Social and community services
• International support management

7
CURRICULM

• Curriculum must be the central and key point in
  the international dimension since it is the main
  component that is carried out, learning by
  students, from instructors in the classroom.
• Courses with international content, options for
  special degrees, textbooks and information,
  visiting professors (in the classroom and
  online).
• Using foreign languages, topics of global
  relevance and papers that reflect a understanding
  of the global environment.
• Instructors with international experience, who
  incorporate international components into the
  learning process, study abroad, participation in
  seminars and conferences of international
  relevance.
• CETYS experience
• English as a requirement in the admission
  process.
• Subjects taught in English.
• Dual Degrees (SDSU and City University).
• WASC

8
FACULTY AND STUDENTS MOBILITY

• Stimulate student participation in programs in
  different countries (Agreements with 45
  Universities of USA, Canada, Latin America and
  Europe).
• Provide alternatives for dual degree programs
  that include visits to foreign university (City
  University/ Seattle, Washington State and San
  Diego State University/MEXUS Program).
• Raise funds to support such exchanges (Kenworth,
  CHEVRON).
• Foreign faculty visitors instructors (Cal Poly
  Pomona, Laverne, Cal State San Bernardino,
  Xavier, SDSU, Arizona State University,
  Concordia/Canada, Murcia/Spain).
• CETYS faculty abroad (Vaasa and Kokkola/ Finland,
  Fullbrigth Programs/SDSU and Cal System,
  Bergamo/Italy, Mariano Egaña/ Chile).

9
FOREIGN STUDENTS

• To attract foreign students so they participate
  in our study programs and practical professional
  and community activities.
• To develop support services for foreign students
  such as guidance, housing, work programs and
  opportunities, academic orientation.
• To maintain contact with the students once they
  return to their home countries.
• France, Italy, Finland, Canada, England, USA and
  Honduras.

10
INTERNATIONAL TECHNICAL DEVELOPMENT AND
COOPERATION

• Participate in international programs such as
  CONAHEC, Phi Beta Delta, HACU, ACE, AGB, CASE,
  Universia, A.F.P., CREPUQ, RAMP, ICEED, NACE,
  Project Synergy, Buen Vecino, 3 Cs Consortium,
  Finland Latin Network, Mexican-Japan Institute.
• Raise funds that assist in instructor and student
  mobility (LASPAU-HARVARD UNIVERSITY,
  EDI-University of Oklahoma, CONACYT, Fullbright).
• International cooperation DBA (USA
  Universities), EDD (Spain), Competitiveness Class
  (Harvard), DE (ASU and University of Toronto).
• Curriculm Development University of Calgary,
  University of Phoenix.

11
SOCIAL AND COMMUNITY SERVICES

• Activities that involve relations between the
  institution and the community, programs and
  services in an international context that provide
  solutions to local needs, such as entrepreneurial
  activities, student leadership groups, developing
  small businesses, etc.
• LASPAU- Harvard University.
• Internships Sony, Zahori, Imperial, Honeywell,
  Samsung, Black and Decker,

12
INTERNATIONAL SUPPORT MANAGEMENT

• Find management talent and leadership that is
  able to reach the goals and objectives set by the
  graduate school, from human resource activities,
  developing strategies and assigning activities
  and tasks. This talent may be formed by academic
  personnel from different areas of the
  institution, to facilitate communication with the
  community in line with the vision set forth for
  the programs.
• Establishing policies and support activities.
• International Departments (System, Ensenada,
  Mexicali and Tijuana)
• International Committees
• Fund raising for mobility scholarships
• International cultural and social events
• Host of the Center French Alliance