UA Signs Collaborative Agreement With University of Guadalajara

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UA Signs Collaborative Agreement With University of Guadalajara

Photo of the University of Guadalajara, Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico.

The agreement will facilitate the exchange of technology, resources and expertise between the two institutions.

By Rebecca Ruiz-McGill, University Communications
January 29, 2008

A collaboration being formalized Wednesday between The University of Arizona and the Universidad de Guadalajara will combine people and expertise from both institutions to find solutions to global issues.

The president of the Guadalajara university, Carlos Briseño, and UA President Robert N. Shelton will sign the agreement on campus during a brief ceremony. The partnership was coordinated by the UA’s Office of Western Hemispheric Programs, created by Shelton in the fall of 2007.

“I am excited about this new collaboration and its potential to address worldwide challenges such as computer industry contamination," said Francisco Marmolejo, director of the Office of Western Hemispheric Programs. "Guadalajara is Mexico’s ‘Silicon Valley’ and it faces the same challenges of contamination the computer industry in the United States is trying to solve."

One area that is of particular interest to the Guadalajara university is the UA’s telemedicine program.

“It is the best in the world and the Universidad de Guadalajara’s health sciences program is interested in creating a telemedicine program in Mexico with the UA’s guidance and expertise,” Marmolejo said.

The UA-Universidad de Guadalajara collaboration is one example of the Office of Western Hemispheric Program’s purpose, he said. The office was established to foster relations in Mexico, Latin America and Canada in which student/faculty exchange, the design of research projects, development of areas of mutual interest and programs of study are made possible through collaborative agreements, including tuition reciprocation among peer educational institutions.

The Universidad de Guadalajara was founded in 1792 and is the second largest university in Mexico. The university has six campuses in the Guadalajara area, each specializing in a different area of study, and seven outside the metropolitan zone. In all, it serves approximately 185,000 students.