Detroit Mercy faculty, staff and administrators, you are invited to be part of a virtual conference, The Future of Internationalization in the Jesuit Universities, set to run for three days from May 24-26, 2022.
Each day’s round tables begin at 9 a.m. ET or 8 a.m. locally in Mexico City. Registration to be a panelist or a member of the audience begins on Wednesday, May 11. Audience spots are reserved for the first 300 people who register (see link below).
Day one on Tuesday, May 24 features keynote speaker Dr. Francisco Marmolejo, President of Higher Education for Qatar Foundation (QF).
Roundtables include:
- Concept of Internationalization and Global Citizenship for Jesuit Universities — To share the concept of Internationalization among the Jesuit Universities and how it responds to each institution’s goals and visions. Likewise, to reflect about the concept of Global Citizenship: meaning, characteristics and how to achieve it.
- Communication Technologies for Internationalization (Virtual Collaboration, invited faculty, etc.) — To share the strategies, good practices and lessons learned after the pandemic and the use of communications technologies to guarantee the continuation of academic activities.
- Challenges in the academic cooperation between Jesuit institutions — To share ideas to improve the liaison among Jesuit Institutions. What can we do to enhance cooperation and work together to solve common problems?