Los Lagos University and the Inter-American Organization for Higher Education (IOHE) signed an important alliance and one of the objectives was achieved at the last meeting held by the Advisory Council of the organization in the city of San José, Costa Rica, where ULagos participated, led by Rector Óscar Garrido, who is also the president of the Organization. This agreement is the beginning of a formal work that will strengthen the internationalization of the ULagos Postgraduate Program.
“The IOHE has vast knowledge in this field, and we are going to work on an approach that will allow us to advance in student and academic mobility of the University’s graduate programs in all areas, taking into account the enormous opportunities that the university ecosystem of Canada, Costa Rica, Brazil, Mexico, and Colombia offers us today. In this way, we will also explore other options. We should conclude this process during the second semester, to start in 2023 with an academic-student exchange in different programs. We are so happy with this important organizational relationship”, highlighted Rector Garrido.
Today it is evident that Los Lagos University turned into “The University of Advancement”, transitioning to a new status, which forces, among other things, to strengthen and expand postgraduate education, taking it far beyond the national boundaries.
Collaborative Networks
Even though our 5 years of institutional accreditation make the University House responsible for providing quality training for all undergraduate students, is the Research and Postgraduate, which makes the difference, as expressed by the director of Postgraduate ULagos, Gonzalo Miranda, who also clearly says “it is very important to join collaborative networks, to contribute from our particularities to what is discussed in other latitudes, as well as contribute to expanding the mental boundaries of our students, assuming that we live in a local and global world at the same time,” said Miranda.
The current director of International Relations, Rodrigo Márquez, will have an important role to carry out this work with responsibility “The recent conversations with the IOHE have allowed us to generate a first approach and the definition of a general framework according to the priorities that Los Lagos University has in terms of internationalization development, which is associated with the recently decreed Internationalization Policy, the guidelines of our Institutional Strategic Plan 2030 and the feedback recently generated by the Institutional Accreditation process in the different instances of the University Government”, explained the director of International Relations.
Márquez highlighted that all the internationalization actions for ULagos will be socialized and discussed in an operational action plan that comes from the recent ULagos Internationalization Policy. “This will allow us to work together with International Relations, the Academic Vice-Rectory, and the Vice-Rectory for Research and Graduate Studies, expressed in a distribution in all our academic units, which will go through the configuration of action spaces to build the operational axes of this plan, oriented to the institutional work of our next accreditation process,” said the director.
