JOINT INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
"An Inter-American Higher Education Collaboration:
Working together to Shape the Future of our Communities"

GUADALAJARA, MEXICO
APRIL 22-24, 2009 

HISPANIC ASSOCIATION OF COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES (HACU)
CONSORTIUM FOR NORTH AMERICAN HIGHER EDUCATION COLLABORATION (CONAHEC)
INTER-AMERICAN ORGANIZATION FOR HIGHER EDUCATION (IOHE)  

THE ORGANIZERS AND HOSTS 

HACU, IOHE, and CONAHEC will hold for the first time a joint international conference that will be historical in bringing together the voices of 1,000 universities throughout the huge intercontinental region from Canada to Chile and Argentina. HACU currently represents a total of 452 higher education institutions from the United States, Puerto Rico, Latin America, Spain and Portugal. HACU is particularly strong in the United States of America. IOHE represents approximately 381 institutions of higher education from across the Americas, most of them in Latin America. CONAHEC represents 129 higher education institutions located in Canada, Mexico and the United States. Its emphasis is, therefore, trilateral academic collaboration derived from the expectations of NAFTA.

The voice of the universities representing the academic sector of all of the Americas will be of outstanding power and influence and will be heard by political, social and educational leaders from every country of this extensive region. It is indeed a unique opportunity for the three organizations and for their member institutions.

Some member institutions belong to all three organizations, others belong to two of them and, finally, some belong to only one of them. This means that the institutions that belong to the three organizations will attend only one meeting instead of three in the year of 2009. The institutions that belong to two organizations will attend one meeting instead of two in 2009, and the ones belonging to only one organization, by the mere fact of attending this inter-continental conference, will have the extraordinary opportunity of networking with all the attending institutions representing the three organizations.

The Universidad Autónoma Guadalajara, the Universidad de Guadalajara, the Universidad de Guanajuato and the Universidad Veracruzana and other universities from Guadalajara and other parts of Mexico will contribute significantly to the success of this extraordinary conference.

Register today – Early Bird Deadline January 31, 2009

Click here to register online!

Program information will be posted as soon as available.

Links to partner organizations:

Consortium for North American Higher Education Collaboration (CONAHEC): www.conahec.org.
Inter-American Organization for Higher Education (IOHE) or Organización Universitaria Interamericana (OUI): http://www.oui-iohe.org.