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1 12th North American Higher Education Conference Higher Education Collaboration: Local Responses in a Global Context Agenda October 8-10, 2008 Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico 2 Co-convenors The 12th North American Higher Education Conference is organized by the Consortium for North American Higher Education Collaboration (CONAHEC) and co-convened by: American Council on Education (ACE) American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) Asociación Nacional de Universidades e Instituciones de Educación Superior (ANUIES) Association of Canadian Community Colleges / Association des collèges communautaires du Canada (ACCC) Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada / Association des universités et collèges du Canada (AUCC) OECD’s Programme for Higher Education Management (IMHE) The International Association of Universities (IAU) Host Institution CONAHEC extends a special thanks to the Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León and its President José Antonio González Treviño for their support and sponsorship of the 2008 North American Higher Education Conference. Sponsors CONAHEC sincerely thanks its sponsoring organizations for their generous support of our conference: Educational Institutions/Organizations: École de technologie supérieure – Université du Québec Tec de Monterrey – Monterrey Campus Universidad de Monterrey (UDEM) Government Sponsors: Secretaría de Educación del Estado de Nuevo León Government of the United States of America – Department of State Business Sector Sponsors: Blackboard, Inc. Exhibitors CONAHEC sincerely thanks its exhibitors for their participation at our conference: Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León École de technologie supérieure – Université du Québec Educational Credential Evaluators, Inc. Blackboard, Inc. Local Members CONAHEC appreciates the involvement of our other participating members in the region: Universidad de Monterrey Sistema ITESM Universidad de Montemorelos UNITEC Universidad Regiomontana SONA Conference CONAHEC is pleased to hold its meeting in conjunction with the Student Organization of North America’s 7th Conference. Language use Conference business will be conducted in Spanish, French and English. Our primary concern is not only clear communication, but also maximum involvement of speakers and participants of different languages. That is why we encourage participants to express themselves in the language they feel most comfortable in, provided they can be understood directly or indirectly by the rest of the audience. If questions are asked in a language that is not understood by everybody, the Moderator, one of the speakers or any resource person in the audience might act as an intermediary. Interpretation Simultaneous interpretation will be provided in sessions as indicated by the headset symbol visible to the left. To obtain an interpretation headset, participants must leave a proper ID (driver’s license, passport, credit card, etc.) as collateral. IDs will be kept in a secure location. Participants will be charged USD 100 for each lost headset, so please keep track of your device! 3 Tuesday, October 7, 2008 12:00 – 4:00 p.m. CONAHEC & SONA Registration & Information Luis XV Room Wednesday, October 8, 2008 8:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. CONAHEC & SONA Registration & Information Luis XV Room 8:30 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. CONAHEC Executive Committee Meeting (Closed meeting) Esmeralda Room 1:00 - 7:00 p.m. Workshops and Networking Opportunities 7:00 – 9:00 p.m. Welcoming Reception hosted by UANL Museo Metropolitano de Monterrey Thursday, October 9, 2008 7:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. CONAHEC & SONA Registration & Information Luis XV Room 8:30 – 9:00 a.m. Official Opening and Welcome Ancira Ballroom 9:00 – 9:45 a.m. Keynote Address Ancira Ballroom Introduction and remarks: Eduardo Padrón, President, Miami-Dade College, USA Presenter: Carlos Rico Ferrat, Undersecretary for North American Affairs, Gobierno de México, MEXICO 9:45 – 10:15 a.m. Refreshment Break sponsored by the Universidad de Monterrey Elipse Room 10:15 – 11:30 a.m. “Higher Education Collaboration: Local Responses in a Global Context” Ancira Ballroom Plenary Session I Introduction: David Longanecker, Executive Director, WICHE, USA Presenters: Marlene Johnson, Executive Director, Association of International Educators (NAFSA), USA; Salvador Malo, Research Director, Instituto Mexicano para la Competitividad (IMCO), MEXICO; Jaana Puuka, Analyst, Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), FRANCE 11:30 a.m. – 12:45 p.m. Moderator: Luis Núñez Gornés, Director of Academic Cooperation, Universidad Perla A - C Room Iberoamericana - Mexico City Campus, MEXICO Concurrent Session 1A: Quality Assurance Issues & “The Bologna Process: How it Affects North American Colleges and Universities” Trends Presenter: James Meyers, Senior Evaluator, Educational Credential Evaluators, Inc., USA The Bologna Declaration was signed in 1999 by the ministers of education of 29 countries in Europe, and since then additional country signatories have been added. This Europe-wide agreement to restructure higher education by 2010 was designed to increase student mobility, but a secondary result will be increased competition for international students, which will affect North America. How are North American institutions likely to treat the new European three-year Bachelor's degree programs? How are educators in Europe likely to react to the North American treatment of their new degree programs? Are there elements of the Bologna Process that could be adapted by CONAHEC or North American 4 Thursday, October 9, 2008 higher education leaders to facilitate the coordination and exchange of students in our region? This session will review the structural changes that are being implemented in European educational systems, and how these changes will affect North American higher education institutions. It will also review the new credit and grade systems that are being used, and new documentation including the Diploma Supplement. Sample educational credentials will be included. “The Accreditation Game” Presenter: Jon Amastae, Professor, Languages and Linguistics, The University of Texas at El Paso, USA Accreditation can be difficult to understand, even for those who only have to grapple with one version of it. For those who have to work in multinational circumstances, it is even more difficult. That is not to say that there is no underlying essence, but only that the true nature of it can be obscured by a number of factors. Often, however, opaque phenomena can be illuminated with the light of metaphor. The objective here is to view the accreditation process as a game - not in lacking seriousness, but as a structured activity comprising players, objectives, rules, strategies, and equipment, among others. The argument will be that viewing accreditation through the binoculars of the game will allow participants to see elements and their relationships and activities more clearly, both for those who are new to the process (game) and for those who think they have mastered one version, but are puzzled by some (or all) of another. “Accreditation Agencies and their Legitimacy: A Comparative Study between Mexico and the United States” Presenter: Ada Gema Martínez, Researcher, San Luis Potosí Educational Research Network (REIESLP), Universidad Autónoma de Tamaulipas, MEXICO Within an international environment characterized by social and political pressures, regulatory organizations such as accrediting agencies develop to guarantee the quality of those educational institutions which submit to this scrutiny. The interest in accreditation processes of academic programs and institutions surpasses those of nations such that we find entire regions interested in generating a better comprehension of educational quality at a supranational level. Accrediting agencies, be they U.S. or Mexico based have the capacity and privilege of bestowing legitimacy on educational organizations and institutions. As a consequence it is important to ask: what are the processes that such accrediting organizations follow to obtain or maintain their own legitimacy in the eyes of the educational community and society in general? The purpose of this study is to open a space for analysis and reflection to identify the strategies that national accrediting agencies use to interact with those social actors in their surroundings that are necessary and indispensable for their existence and development. The study concludes by comparing these processes and types of strategies that legitimize them. 11:30 a.m. – 12:45 p.m. Moderator: Jason Cole, Student Exchange Program Coordinator, CONAHEC, Zafiro Room Concurrent Session 1B: USA Language Competencies “Becoming Bilingual at the UANL! The New Progressive Bilingual Program” Presenters: Gabriela Adriana Elizondo Regalado, Professor, Faculty of Philosophy and Letters, UANL, MEXICO; Jessica Mariela Rodriguez Hernandez, Professor, UANL, MEXICO The aim of this presentation is to share with the audience the experience of the UANL in training teachers and implementing the new progressive bilingual program in public high schools in the state of Nuevo León. The program started with the design of the bilingual model, taking as a basis, different Content-Based 5 Thursday, October 9, 2008 Instruction (CBI) programs like Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol (SIOP). The program has been adjusted according to the specific characteristics and needs of our institution, our teachers and students. Our teacher training program began with more than 80 participants