A year prior to its international conference events, the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities (HACU) has announced that “100,000 Strong in the Americas: Challenges and Opportunities for a More Prosperous and Fair Hemisphere; La Fuerza de 100,000 en las Américas: Oportunidades y Desafíos para un Hemisferio más Próspero y Justo,” will be the theme of its 11th International Conference, Feb. 25-27, 2015 in Guadalajara, Mexico. HACU also announced a Symposium will take place a day after the conference in Guanajuato, Mexico.
On Feb. 25, approximately 30 individuals were part of a meeting with HACU staff and representatives from higher education institutions and organizations in Guadalajara to discuss planning and collaborations for the International Conference. The meeting, led by HACU president and CEO Antonio R. Flores, also included a welcome by Lic. Antonio Leaño Reyes, Rector of the Universidad Autónoma de Guadalajara, which will serve as the host institution for the event taking place at Hotel RIU Plaza Guadalajara. Sergio Arias Negrete, Director de Cooperación Académica, Universidad de Guanajuato, also provided an overview of the Symposium to be held at the Universidad de Guanajuato on Feb. 28, 2015.
Leaders and representatives of the following institutions were among those present at the meeting in Guadalajara:
Asociación Nacional de Universidades e Instituciones de Educación Superior (ANUIES)
Consulado General de los Estados Unidos en Guadalajara
Embajada de los Estados Unidos en México
Federación de Instituciones Mexicanas Particulares de Educación Superior, A.C. (FIMPES)
Gobierno del Estado de Jalisco
Instituto de Justicia Alternativa del Estado de Jalisco (IJA)
Instituto Tecnológico de Aguascalientes
Instituto Tecnológico de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, Campus Guadalajara
Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores, Delegación Jalisco
The University of New Mexico (UNM)
Universia México
Universidad Autónoma de Guadalajara
Universidad de Guadalajara
Universidad de Guanajuato
Universidad Panamericana, Campus Guadalajara
Universidad Tecnológica del Suroeste de Guanajuato
Additional conference details will be made available online at www.hacu.net.