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Keynote Speakers’ Addresses and Workshop Presentations
Wednesday, March 29, 2017
Speakers: David Hodge
Evelyn Rodriguez-Perez
Thursday, March 30, 2017 Plenary Session II – “International Collaboration: A Tool to Improve Health Care Systems” Speakers: Dr. Aarón Hernández
Dr. Ricardo León Bórquez
Concurrent Sessions (1–6) Session 1 Studying abroad and participating in internships are two high–impact practices for student development and learning. This workshop will highlight best practices for collaboration between Study Abroad, Career Services, Financial Aid and faculty, so that students’ educational and career benefit is maximized through pre–departure career planning, interning abroad, and reintegration career preparation. The program will also develop strategies for ensuring that students are able to afford the learning that comes through studying and interning internationally. Presenters: Gihan Fernando
Dr. Sara Dumont
Session 2 This session presents a successful community–university program in primary healthcare services that transcends instruction and adds the administration of healthcare services and, at the same time, explains how health field students from several U.S. universities participate in and achieve their learning objectives.
Presenters: Dr. Aaron Hernández
Elizabeth Rodríguez
Session 3 The 100,000 Strong in the Americas Innovation Fund will have launched well over 15 competitions by the time of the HACU International Conference. This panel will share lessons learned, preview future opportunities, and provide practical tips for writing competitive grant proposals to build innovative partnerships to increase bi–directional student mobility to better prepare our 21st century workforce. Presenters: Lee Tablewski
Maggie Hug
Session 4 Representatives from EducationUSA and the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) will describe their programs including resources to assist universities/colleges with developing international mobility programs. Their presentations will be followed by a recipient of an Undergraduate International Studies and Foreign Language (USIFL) program grant from the University of Central Florida, who will describe the types of activities that were funded by a U.S. DOE grant to enhance the university’s Latin American Studies program. This presentation will conclude with an interactive session for developing a new study abroad program in Cuba. Presenters: Dr. Consuelo Stebbins
Tanyelle Richardson
Marcia Herra
Erica Kight
Session 5 This presentation highlights innovative models for supporting internationalization on campus by working with government agencies and supporting students with fellowship opportunities. We will explain how a matching scholarship between The University of New Mexico and the Consulate of Mexico to support students of Mexican origin is a unique model for future government partnerships, and how several UNM Fellowship programs train students to work with international students, be multiculturally sensitive, and take on leadership roles. Presenters: Dr. Paul Edmunds
Dr. Eliseo "Cheo" Torres
Session 6 Research has begun to illustrate the benefits of diverse collaborative research teams, revealing that the inclusion of international diversity and women in scientific teams increases citation impact. Other studies show that interdisciplinary collaboration boosts funding, innovation, and productivity. In this workshop, we present best practices and practical tools for training faculty and institutional leaders in developing, promoting, and supporting diverse scientific teams at their institutions. Presenters: Dr. Barbara Endemaño Walker
Susan Carter
Lunch Speakers: Dr. Stephen Ferst USA
Margaret Hug
Dr. Lori Unruh Snyder
Concurrent Sessions (7–12) Session 7 This roundtable will cover policies and programs relevant to international students in the United States, as well as best practices to engage with the international students’ community. Also, this would be a good opportunity to engage with USCIS subject matter experts to ask questions and provide feedback.
Presenters: Bertha Anderson
Mariela Melero
Session 8 This session will describe the experience of a Mexican private university that has achieved system wide implementation of internationalization strategies via the establishment of relevant alliances, designing diverse global initiatives, making the most out of its own geographic location along the U.S. –Mexico border all this due to a strong presidential leadership. Participants will observe via visual material and presentation of case studies and samples of current and on–going initiatives, the impact that they've generated and how they have positioned CETYS above the national mean of Mexican student mobility. Presenters: Dr. Scott Venezia
Session 9 In 2016, the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos launched the open online platform: URJCx. Under the Open edX ecosystem, it offers MOOCs aimed at labor sectors with high employment demand. URJC uses blended and online courses offered for this first program geared towards the virtual mobility of students, expanding the curricular possibilities of students from other universities and creating new interinstitutional collaborations. Presenters: Pablo Salvadores
Session 10 This session will describe the development, planning, and administration of a cooperative program between the Nursing program at College of Staten Island and the Universidad de Iberoamérica (UNIBE) in San José, Costa Rica. The Transcultural Learning and Global Health Sciences program is a study abroad program for health science students taking place in both Costa Rica and the U.S. with bi–directional student mobility. Presenters will discuss various successes and potential pitfalls to avoid when creating programming. Presenters: Dr. Stephen Ferst Regina Lama
Director of Global Education
Session 11 Innovative international partnerships provide many exciting opportunities, yet finding sustainable partnerships that can stand the test of time can be challenging. University leaders interested in establishing international partnerships often overlook their greatest asset—faculty. This workshop will detail how university administrators and faculty can form close partnerships in developing innovative programs abroad. Presenters will engage attendees in exploring steps in getting started and examine ways to identify potential international partnerships that will endure over time. Presenters: Dr. Ezequiel Peña Session 12 Pima Community College, one of the largest Hispanic serving two–year colleges in the nation, has embarked in a process of comprehensive internationalization. This presentation explains the process and why internationalization is an educational imperative of the twenty–first century. It describes some of the strategies, successes, opportunities and challenges that have emerged as the institution follows this new strategic direction. Internationalization and global education are explained as integral components of college accreditation and student success. Presenters: Dr. Ricardo Castro–SalazarVice President for International Development
Concurrent Sessions (13–18) Session 13 Rankings have come to reconfigure the institutional legitimacy of universities at the national and international level. This workshop addresses some of the unique ways in which rankings have reconfigured the legitimacy of universities and how these comparisons function as agents that force institutions of higher education to make organizational changes that allow them to achieve a greater legitimacy within the global context of higher education. Presenters: Dr. Carlos Iván Moreno Session 14 There exists a global concern about the new skills and competencies that future professionals need. Universities from all over the world have realized the importance of making changes to their teaching–learning approaches to be more dynamic and labor market–oriented. This workshop allows academic leaders from different cultural backgrounds to analyze some scenarios from Costa Rica, learn about the latest institutional strategies for developing student capacities, and exchange their own techniques to provide and receive effective recommendations. Presenters: Verónica Castro R.
Starling Aguilar J. Verónica Mora U. Session 15 Providing an international opportunity for first–generation students is not always easy. The fear of traveling alone, to places they have only heard about or seen in movies, can be intimidating. Getting students to take the chance is easier when traveling with an adult/faculty member. Once students take this leap, it is the key to dreaming bigger and broadens the student’s perspective and confidence. Helping faculty develop these programs and providing direct recruiting support for faculty to create these classes, is critical to the success of the program. Partnering student services with faculty, chairs and deans allows for enthusiasm, and leads to strong and successful programs. Presenters: Dr. Minita Ramírez Triana González
Session 16 Mobility between California State University, Fullerton (CSU Fullerton) and CETYS University includes movement of students, faculty, and staff between CSU Fullerton located in Orange County, California and three CETYS Univerity campuses located in Baja California, México. Consideration includes the strengths and global priorities of each institution, review of standing short–term programs, opportunities to leverage or build on direct enroll pathways, and “creative reciprocity.” Presenters will discuss best practices, collaboration strategies, and diverse program models. Additionally, institutional, program–based, and student outcomes will be shared. Presenters: Dr. Kari Knutson Miller Dr. Scott Venezia Dr. Christopher M. Swarat Jennifer Loaiza
Session 17 At San Bernardino Valley College, a grassroots effort was started to take a handful of students each year to Costa Rica. Not only to study in a classroom, but to study their surroundings, the people, nature, and culture. The students had the transformative opportunity to meet two indigenous tribes; the Bri Bri and Cabecares – the message from the tribes to the students “Tell the world we are here, we do not wish to be forgotten.” Presenters: Dr. Diana Rodríguez Laura Gómez
Larissa Gómez Vázquez
Dr. Jeremiah A. Gilbert
Session 18 The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley is the newest Hispanic–Serving Institution in the United States, offering a bilingual, bicultural, and bilateral educational experience to roughly 18,000 students. The presentation will offer a brief background on The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley and then focus on the unique opportunities and challenges the institution faces for increasing study abroad participation. Presenters: Alan Earhart
Concurrent Sessions (19–24) The excellence of the delivery of a hybrid distance education program can be a predictive characteristic of international student success; with an holistic design EDP University of Puerto Rico (EDPU) provides Latin American students the opportunity to complete an accredited university degree, in their language with diverse experiences that compliment and improve their lives. As an Hispanic–Serving Institution, EDPU is commited to providing opportunities of integral development for Latin American students. Presenters: Gladys Nieves Dr. Marilyn Pastrana Muriel
Session 20 Professional and Faculty Learning Communities (PLCs and FLCs) can be a transformative force in creating new paths for international collaboration and building the equity mindset needed to establish and sustain international partnerships. By operationalizing theory into practice, the PLC and FLC programs use interdisciplinary and cross divisional collaborative teams to build knowledge, resources, and infrastructure that support closing the achievement gap between Hispanic and non Hispanic students, and diversifying and expanding international exchange programs. Presenters: Dr. Tina Jordan–Brown
Dr. EunMi Cho
Session 21 Focusing on best–practice ideals for equity–minded pedagogy and the scholarship of High Impact Practices, presenters will share a framework for designing an equity–minded study abroad experience based on their involvement in a faculty–taught, locally administrated program in Spain. Participants will work with presenters to identify challenges around diversity and equity in study abroad, and will identify strategies for developing culturally responsive and accessible mobility programs. Presenters: Dr. Lunden MacDonald
Session 22 11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. “Experiential Learning through International Education Serving Hispanic Students” (Session Presented in English) Room: Cedro 1 This panel discussion highlights how New Mexico State University (NMSU), one of the leading Hispanic–Serving Institutions in the U.S., and Centro Panamericano de Idiomas (CPI) in Costa Rica are collaborating to provide unique international education opportunities through experiential learning while students participate in study abroad programs. Unique to this program is that this partnership is providing this experience to an increasing number of Hispanic students. Presenters: Dr. Jeff Longwell Professor New Mexico State University Las Cruces, New Mexico USA
Kristi Drexler Ph.D. Student – ELA Department New Mexico State University Las Cruces, New Mexico USA
Kristin Morehead Ph.D. Student – ELA Department New Mexico State University Las Cruces, New Mexico USA
Jonle Sedar Manager, CPI Groups Centro Panamericano de Idiomas Heredia/Monteverde/Flamingo Costa Rica
Session 23 Friday, March 31, 2017 11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. “New Collaboration Models: The Strength of Larger Families” (Session Presented in English) Room: Cedro 2 In response to emerging challenges to student mobility, initiatives such as 100,000 Strong in the Americas support large and small institutions in different ways. This presentation will review how two very different U.S. institutions have benefited from these opportunities and addressed the challenges of engaging in such initiatives. Presenters: Mike Proctor Vice President of Global Initiatives The University of Arizona Tucson, Arizona USA
Session 24 Friday, March 31, 2017 11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. “Innovative Practices: Enhancing L2 Proficiency and Student Engagement through CALL Technologies” (Session Presented in English) Room: Cedro 3 This presentation illustrates how technology–enhanced instruction may be used to foster communication modes. The selected activities will rely on pedagogical strategies that enhance communicative proficiency through online mediated learning environments. In these examples, the audience will also become familiar with related web applications: Near Pod, VoiceThread, and Go Animate. Presenters: Andrés Morera Director of International Admissions Universidad Latina de Costa Rica San Pedro, San José Costa Rica
Dr. Gabriela Olivares Associate Professor, Languages & Literatures University of Northern Iowa Cedar Falls, Iowa USA
Dr. Alejandra Barahona CIP Executive Director Universidad Veritas San José, Costa Rica Costa Rica
Michelle Ploof Spanish Professor Hawkeye Community College Waterloo, Iowa USA
Lunch and Closing Ceremony Friday, March 31, 2017 1:00 – 3:00 p.m. Speaker: Ana Helena Chacón Echeverría Vice President of the Republic of Costa Rica (Vicepresidenta de la República de Costa Rica) San José, San José Costa Rica
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