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The University of California maintains an expanding number
of academic links with institutions of higher education in
Mexico.
UC and CONACYT
UC and El Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología
(CONACYT) representatives signed an agreement in Mexico City
in July of 1997 that is creating a generation of scientists,
teachers, and leaders who will have been educated in both
Mexico and California.
- UC's campuses have more than 70 CONACYT fellows completing
PhD degrees under a shared cost agreement for graduate training;
this is more than any other university in the U.S. and in
the world.
- As a result of the UC-CONACYT agreement, more than 170
researchers from UC and Mexico are working together in fields
ranging from engineering to the humanities. Many of these
research projects deal with issues of common concern to
California and Mexico--the economic, social, and cultural
aspects of migration, for example. Another is the depleted
water resources on the Colorado River.
- Starting this year, UC will provide 40 annual fellowships
for UC graduate students to undertake dissertation research
or advanced training at Mexican institutions of higher learning
and research.
- UC and CONACYT will this year launch a program that will
support long-term faculty visits in both directions to build
lifelong relationships between our universities and research
centers. The program will involve both young postdoctoral
fellows and senior faculty.
- In addition, UC and CONACYT are proposing an agreement
for a UC-Mexico Commission on Education, Science and Technology.
The Commission will consist of eight distinguished researchers
appointed by the director general of CONACUYT and the president
of UC, along with two government and two industry/business
representatives appointed by the president of Mexico and
the governor of California.
California-Mexico Health Initiative
(CMHI)
The access of migrant workers to health-care services is scarce
and inefficient in both Mexico and the U.S. Yet the importance
of the migrants' contribution to the national economy of the
two countries can never be stressed enough; nor can their
inalienable human right to health care.
This concern represents the motivation
of the Binational Migrant Health Initiative. The Initiative
was created in January 2000, under the auspices of the California
Policy Research Center of the University of California. It
is a collaborative approach between government representatives,
academia and community-based organizations of both countries.
It also has the support of legislative groups and programs
such as the California Program on Access to Care as well as
from private foundations like the California HealthCare, and
The California Endowment.
The Initiative's objective is to coordinate
and optimize the availability of health services to migrants
and their families beyond the border boundaries.
California House
California House in Mexico City, announced by Gov. Gray Davis
at UCLA on March 22, 2001, will house UC's Education Abroad
program, enhance trade and cultural ties between California
and Mexico and provide a central contact point for UC alumni
in Mexico.
The University expects the creation of
Casa de California will enhance its relationship with Mexican
universities, government and industry as well as UC alumni,
many of whom are in positions of leadership in Mexican society.
Internet2
- Students, researchers and faculty at UC and other major
universities throughout the two countries are linked though
a high-speed Internet2 interconnection between the California
Research and Education Network-2 (CalREN-2) and the advanced
Internet in Mexico deployed by Mexico's Corporación
Universitaria para el Desarrollo de Internet (CUDI).
- UC and CONACYT have agreed to issue a special call for
proposals for collaborative research and teaching, using
Internet2 technology.
UC MEXUS--The University of California
Institute for Mexico and the United States
Since its establishment in 1980, UC MEXUS has maintained the
primary mission of developing and sustaining a coordinated,
Universitywide approach to Mexico-related studies. The Institute's
broad objectives are:
- Increase the quantity, visibility, and effectiveness
of Mexico-United States projects in the University;
- Strengthen and develop research, exchange programs, and
teaching;
- Support and coordinate interdisciplinary and inter-campus
projects;
- Encourage and enable collaborative approaches by UC and
Mexican scholars to the issues which affect both nations;
- Act as a source of information about University-sponsored
United States-Mexico activities;
- Develop new sources for support of research and instructional
programs; and
- Promote a better understanding between the two countries.
UC and the University of Chapingo
UC and the University of Chapingo in Mexico are instituting
an agreement for cooperation in agricultural research and
training.
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