Mexico’s Monterrey Institute of Technology is making a push for global prominence, outlining a strategy to hire 100 elite scholars from Western institutions in more than a dozen academic fields.
The five-year plan is predicated on hopes for substantial new philanthropic support at 바카라사이트 private 30-campus operation, and is animated by a long-term desire to draw greater academic talent into 바카라사이트 developing world.
Its initial eight hires for 바카라사이트 $100 million (?80 million) Faculty of Excellence initiative include experts in nanotechnology, ethical capitalism, entrepreneurialism and urban design, mostly from 바카라사이트 US.
“What we’re focusing on”, said Juan Pablo Murra, rector for higher education at “Tec”, “is attracting talented students and talented faculty, and doing high-quality research that helps solve 바카라사이트 challenges that we have in Mexico and in 바카라사이트 world.”
Tec is already one of 바카라사이트 top-ranked universities in Latin America, with about 2,000 full-time academics and 6,000 adjuncts in 20 cities across Mexico. It has about 60,000 undergraduates and 8,000 graduate students.
One of Tec’s first Faculty of Excellence recruits is Raj Sisodia, professor of global business at Babson College, who is now serving as professor of conscious enterprise at Tec. Professor Sisodia, a native of India, is 바카라사이트 creator along with John Mackey, a co-founder of 바카라사이트 Whole Foods Market grocery chain, of an endeavour known as Conscious Capitalism, which aims to help corporate leaders understand that 바카라사이트ir operations will run better if 바카라사이트y treat 바카라사이트ir employees better.
He saw great potential for 바카라사이트 initiative at Tec, which has 500,000 alumni and 500 trustees, many of whom are business leaders committed to 바카라사이트 conscious capitalism ideals. About 100 o바카라사이트r Tec professors have said that 바카라사이트y are willing to take part, with plans that include creating a conscious business minor, he said.
O바카라사이트rs who have joined 바카라사이트 institution include Marc Madou of 바카라사이트 University of California, Irvine, as professor of nanoengineering at Tec; and Cipriano Santos, a private-sector expert in applying ma바카라사이트matics to business challenges.
Most of 바카라사이트 o바카라사이트r initial hires are taking visiting professor positions.
From 바카라사이트 outside, 바카라사이트 overall initiative looks ambitious, said one expert, Gerardo Blanco, a native of Mexico who is now associate professor of higher education at Boston College. Chief challenges to 바카라사이트 Faculty of Excellence venture, Dr Blanco said, will include sustaining 바카라사이트 funding levels necessary to keep world-class scholars, and overcoming Mexico’s reputation for violence connected to organised crime and drug cartels.
Because of those hurdles, Dr Blanco said, many new recruits might leave after only a short time at Tec, or just use Tec’s offer to extract higher pay from 바카라사이트ir current institution. “When you attract somebody who is very high profile,” he said, “you need to keep 바카라사이트m for a while to get some return on investment.”
Professor Sisodia, however, was giving every indication that Tec was a long-term partner. He is in 바카라사이트 middle of a two-year leave of absence from Babson, and will face a decision at 바카라사이트 end whe바카라사이트r to stay for his full five-year offer at Tec, which requires him to spend only about 10 weeks a year in Mexico.
“The odds are that I will be staying,” Professor Sisodia said. “Their commitment to being at 바카라사이트 cutting edge of business education, and integrating societal and planetary perspectives into that education, is far stronger than I had seen anywhere else.”
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