Document of the AASCU-CUIDES meeting held in Hotel Mansión Real in Reynosa, Tamaulipas, Mexico, April 1st,1998.
Alex Schilt We are going to begin our meeting so we can finish around 10:00a.m.
I confirm our next meeting, which will be held in Monterrey
the 11th, 12th, and 13th, of November this year.
Now we are going to talk about the initiative.
Public service from the Latin-American and American Universities point of view. We have to work to successfully finish the initiative. We could even get 100 000 Dlls. from USAID for computer services and software.
Pablo Longoria Everyone in this meeting collaborated to make the project for the USAID and we have sent it on time. We will participate with or without external support.
Alex Schilt We have to identify the institutions in each country which represent
USAID.
Pablo Longoria We will give our Latin-American colleagues the USAID office address in their country so they can get in touch with them to try to get some support so the right signals get to Washington. We have decided to begin the project independently of the USAID answer.
Alex Schilt Today, we are going to talk about five points.
- A brief presentation of the initiative.
- We will make a brief description of our institutions talking about our service to the community.
- Appleberry will talk about public service of the universities in the USA.
- Harold will tell us about the times in the initiative and specific activities.
- Finally we will establish the pairs between American and Latin-American Universities.
Pablo Longoria This is an excellent opportunity for the Latin-American universities to see
what the American universities do for serving its community.
The initiative has all the elements to successfully reach CUIDES’ goals. I have great expectations with this.
Now we are going to talk in two minutes of our institutions, size, location,
main activities and interest areas.
Jerry Rhodeback University of Houston Clear Lake
We have 7000 students.
70% go to evening classes.
18% are working.
16% are married.
We are a pragmatic institution. We are working very well with the
president’s community work.
Stapples University of Houston Clear Water Lake
We have 3000 students.
We have the 2+2 program with some universities.
Pablo Oliveros University foundation form Andine Area
We are located in Bogota, Colombia
We have 4000 students
Half of them are evening students
60% are in health sciences
40% Constructive and Food Engineering
We also are interested in environmental services.
Victor M. Garza Valle de Bravo University.
We have 5000 students in 9 campus in Tamaulipas.
15000 graduated.
We have Medical programs, Humanities, Engineering.
We work with the productive sector.
We also manage Teachers’ exchange programs.
Antonio Coello Centro de estudios universitarios de Monterrey.
Founded in 1970.
We have 4000 students.
1800 in high school.
Most of them work and are married.
We have 21 professional careers.
We have a lot of interaction with our community, basically through state government programs.
Arturo Ornelas Universidad Autonoma de Morelos
We have 20000 students
27 Bachelors degrees in all fields.
23 Master’s degrees.
9 P.H.D. ( 5 are subscribed to the CONACYT excellency).
In Cuernavaca we find 19 out of 21 National Research Centers.
2300 of the most important researchers in our country are in Curnavaca.
We research in Social Sciences, Mathematics, Nuclear and Solar Energy.
We are beginning a very intense international program sending students to
Italy, Germany, Australia, Japan etc. And we are receiving an important
amount of foreign students.
Today, we do not have exchange programs with the United States
because we do not have financial support. We really would like to have
contact with American Universities. We already do this with Nicaragua,
El Salvador, Belize, Honduras, Costa Rica, Peru, Chile, Colombia.
Jim Dombek University of Central Kansas
Founded 90 years ago.
We are 30 miles from Little Rock.
We are a comprehensive institution, We are very proud of our programs.
We have 2500 students in our campus
We have accredited programs in business administration.
Barham Madaim Ayud Viña del Mar university
Founded 9 years ago.
We are trying to be a university for development.
We have 3000 students.
We are very interested in developing projects, for the community government programs, labor training work with small and medium size industries.
We have incorporated a private bank ( Banco del Desarrollo ).
Our areas of interest are the environment, urban and regional development.
John Kerrigan University of Wisconsin Oshkosh.
Founded 126 years ago…I have been its only president.
We have 10000 students.
9000 graduates.
4 schools: *Business Administration.
*Nursing.
*Education.
*Lectures and science.
We offer Master’s degrees in all programs.
We do not have P.H.D’s.
3500 students live on campus
We have a strong interest to participate in this initiative. Our
strengths are in Chemical and physics sciences.
Priamo Rodriguez Universidad Tecnologica de Santiago.
It is located is in Santiago de los Caballeros.
We have 4 extensions in 4 states (including the National District)
Our Institution founded 24 years ago. Non lucrative.
We have 36000 students, we are the biggest private institution in the country.
We are 9million people, we have a very poor population
We have the project of Industrial Inlaid University
High genetic production of cattle (we import samples from Wisconsin)
We also have two projects:
- We have one project with Israel to produce electric energy through
Biogas, helping improve the environment.
2. Grape production in the poorest area in the country, on the border with Haiti . This is the most economical project in the world.
We have another project, to establish an art school, there is no other in the
country. It will work in the National District.
Charles A. Dranguet Southeaster Louisiana University
Founded in 1925, 90 miles from New Orleans
15000 students
We have 5 colleges
We have a satellite campus where we offer evening classes. (we have dorms).
Thanks for the invitation.
Germán Anzola Universidad de Ciencias Aplicadas y Ambientales
We are located in Santa Fe de Bogota
We have 2500 students (Bachelors and Masters)
Last November we got into the Colombian National system of accreditation.
We have there schools programs:
- Agriculture school Faculty science (4 careers)
- Health Science school (community medicine)
- Social Science school ( sports and commercial science)
- Masters ( genetic and animal nutrition)
- University Social service programs ( 6 months in rural communities)
- International Relations Programs attending the last level overseas (Cuba, Mexico, Dominican Republic, Brazil, Argentina etc.)
Pablo Longoria Universidad Regiomontana.
We are a private Institution, non lucrative founded in 1969.
We have 4000 students.
30% work and study.
We offer 25 bachelors degrees
We strongly emphasize in teaching English language and Computer.
We have a strong link with the Industry.
We work with tetramester system (4 month periods )
We are working with the ISEP for the exchange programs with
Canadian Universities. We also work in coordination with Japan offering a Masters program financed by Japan’s government.
David Fulton Indiana University East.
We are located right at the border with Ohio and we have 8 campuses.
We provide public services to our community.
Our programs are in education, nursing, social sciences, social work,
arts and humanities.
We have a Regional Center for the economic development.
We have television programs for local community.
We develop learning programs.
Edward Hogan South Dakota State university.
We have 8 colleges.
We offer satellite education.
We have programs in China, Korea, England, Russia etc.
We offer Phd’s in Chemistry, Geography masters, (water resources
engineering).
We have an agreement with Texas and New Mexico to offer distant education.
We are 21 institutions focusing in long distance education via satellite
where we offer short courses to some 3000 participants.
We have programs in agriculture science.
Max Castillo University of Houston Downtown.
We are a diverse university.
We have 31% Hispanic, 26% Blacks, 11% Asian, and 4% Internationals.
We have more than 8200 students.
30 Bachelor degrees programs.
We are a very young institution founded in 1974.
We have three schools in Business, Sciences & Technology and
Humanities & Social Science.
We work with our community.
We have programs with the army: we prepare students to develop
software. We have got Army’s technology.
We have agreements to prepare teachers in China and England.
We have programs with Guadalajara Autonomous University.
We also have Computer programs.
We are very involved with the community.
Juan M. Rodriguez Universidad Autonoma España De Durango.
Opened 5 years ago but we have been working in education for 21
years. We offer 12 careers focusing in communication, English and
Marketing.
We have three masters degrees in education and technologic education.
Alex Schilt Very well, we have finished introducing all universities, Now Appleberry
will talk about the role of the universities in community service.
Pablo Longoria Extension or community service.
James Appleberry The government donated land to the universities to obtain resources.
American Universities look for three goals:
- Teaching
- Research
- Community Service
In each state one institution received from the Federal Government a donation of land. South Dakota State University also received support.
Even though the concept of teaching, researching and public service has changed, university programs keep these three premises. They have adopted these functions. Three functions had become one concept. The universities had discovered formulas for serving its communities beyond the teaching and researching.
For example, South Dakota State University, uses research for helping people to do jobs more efficiently and economically and do specific community work.
This project is easy to understand. This is the concept of serving the public. But you can do this right in your own campus checking your communities’ problems. For this initiative we are going to differ greatly. Latin-American universities will notice that the changes are great in your community.
Some examples:
- An audiometer Center where you can give free service to test people’s hearing so they can take the results to the medical center they go.
- Some campuses will offer service for the senior citizens.
- To see how a radio and television operate. They usually only inform, they do not teach.
- Unemployment and poor economic conditions. The university researches industry people and citizens to evaluate programs of unemployment or economic problems.
The public service mission : What do we know? What can we do to develop our universities? We have to be in touch with our community.
Once we detect the problems we have to decide the project. Here where we are two universities associated for this initiative, we have to identify what we can share with each other.
Alex Schilt Now Mr. Rodrigo Carazo Odio will talk about this initiative.
Rodrigo Carazo Odio Cordoba’s norms from 1918, established some operation bases and
university services, all of this in exchange for the autonomy in public universities. The university guarantees its independence and commits itself to give or receive. It is not an instrument of society. The university distributes some privileges with community resources to the society, inspired in serving the society.
The universities look at the extension as a means to get close to the community. The first ones have to do with health services ( ears, teeth, eyes, permanent and movable clinics, health in general.)
The sense in giving back something back to the community plays a philosophical role. The university receives and should give. The service can be given not only by the students or the teachers but also by its graduates, for example social service. This extension has to try to raise the level of culture in the community (radio, television, university publications, open services to the community.) all of this has some community participation.
Another example, the crime in the streets needs to be taken care of with some programs from the community and the university , not only by the police.
Just to express the general philosophy (I can not summarize). There is only one limit, our imagination.
The public universities are to technical help agriculture, etc.. which is an extension without being academic, is a formal education.
There is a large number of forms: permanent formation programs, videotapes etc.. cheap, efficient and with a long range. The less the experts participation in the video programs the more people will be reached.
Alex schilt Thank you Rodrigo for your comments.
Now Mr. Harold Vaughn is next, who is going to talk about the initiative AASCU-CUIDES.
Harold Vaughn I would like to make some points in the proposal.
First we have to separate the initiative AASCU-CUIDES and the proposal to the USAID.
It is important to see that it is not only seven pairs of institutions. Other institutions want to join us and CUIDES should be very careful in extending and be able to manage it.
We can make meetings via Internet at a very cheap cost. Pablo will be working in the next two months to integrate the virtual community, so we will have permanent up-dated information. The idea is to have meetings at noon. To visit and to be visited to see how our institutions are relating with the public areas and the community. We will develop projects in small scale, with realistic economic resources.
We will also develop projects in nutrition, basic education, work skills, and health services, etc..
We have to make CUIDES grow for democracy in our community.
We have to keep the " timetable " , and we have to make things happen.
Alex Schilt Now I am going to announce the university pairs
Univ. Aut España de Durango & Univ. Houston Downtown
Univ. Tec. De Santiago & Univ. of Wisconsin Oshkosh
Univ. de Viña Del Mar & Univ. of Central Arkansas
Univ. de C. Aplicadas y Amb. & South Dakota State Univ.
Univ. Valle del Bravo & Univ. Houston Clear Lake
Universidad Regiomontana & Southeast Louisiana Univ.
Centro de Estudios Universitarios & Indiana University East
We are going to take a brake so you can talk among yourselves to exchange data, phones, e-mail’s etc.
Harold Vaughn I am going to give you a document that was publicized by "Association
Laison Office for University Cooperation in Development"
The document is called " increasing the relevance of Higher Education to Development: What U.S. and Mexican public/Private Partnerships Can Do"
Pablo Longoria If you have the time to stay a couple minutes we want to introduce the CUIDES virtual community by Internet.
END OF MEETING
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