Alamo Community College leads foreign-exchange program
San Antonio Business Journal
The Alamo Community Colleges (ACC) is collaborating with the Asociacion Nacional de Universidades Tecnologicas in Mexico to increase faculty and student internship exchange programs between Mexican technical universities and American community colleges.
Working with the American Association of Community Colleges, ACC will be the lead American community college in facilitating the exchange process, which will be funded by the U.S. and Mexican governments.
Beginning this week, the Alamo Community Colleges will provide a faculty development and leadership training course in San Antonio for 50 Mexican technical college instructors during the month of December. ACC will also deliver a National Association for Workforce Professional Certification course for 40 workforce professionals from Mexican technical universities. This is tentatively scheduled for spring 2009.
The ACC and the Universidad Tecnologica de Tulancingo will continue promoting distance learning opportunities and faculty and student exchanges. ACC will also collaborate with the State of Hidalgo and the Mexican Department of Higher Education to promote the second annual Global Conference on Economic and Workforce Development, to be held in fall 2009.
“These international partnerships are valuable, not only in terms of culture and education, but also provide an important new revenue source to help diversify our funding base,” says Bruce H. Leslie, chancellor of ACC. “In today’s global community, our international partnerships truly make educational and business sense.”
The Alamo Community Colleges consist of five colleges serving the Bexar County area: Palo Alto College, St. Philip’s College, San Antonio College, Northeast Lakeview College and Northwest Vista College.
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