AIC Continues to Expand its International Reach

AIC President Hubert Benitez, pictured left, welcomed His Excellency Abdelkader Jamoussi, Consul General of the Kingdom of Morocco in New York, pictured right, to his office in December.

AIC President Hubert Benitez, pictured left, welcomed His Excellency Abdelkader Jamoussi, Consul General of the Kingdom of Morocco in New York, pictured right, to his office in December. The visit, facilitated by Associate Professor of Occupational Therapy Said Nafai, OTD, MS, OTR/L, CLT, pictured center, comes as the College looks to form partnerships with the Moroccan Ministry of Education and academic institutions in Morocco. Among the goals is to explore shared student and academic programming, and the potential for AIC to co-host an international conference with the Consulate of Morocco.

On December 1, AIC entered a new partnership with Universidad Andres Bello Santiago de Chile (UNAB), which ranks among the top fifty academic institutions in Latin America.  The signing of the agreement marks the third international partnership for AIC, which has recently signed similar international compacts with Universidad Catolica de El Salvador (UNICAES), and St. Paul University in the Philippines (SPUP).

The partnership between AIC and SPUP is already bearing fruit. President Benitez traveled to the Philippines on December 9 to deliver the keynote speech at the SPUP International Interdisciplinary Research Conference, co-hosted by AIC. The speech was titled “Blazing New Trails in Research, Creativity, Innovation, and Sustainability.”

Using AIC as a framework, Benitez addressed more than 400 participants from fourteen universities located in China, Indonesia, and Singapore, about the role of higher education leadership in creating innovative, entrepreneurial, diverse, and interdisciplinary environments.

Below are some of the comments Benitez received about his speech from participants after the conference:

“Thank you, Dr. Hubert, for the informative discussion. Indeed, innovation, collaboration, being transformative, and making your mission and vision personal will bring success to whatever endeavor you have as a leader.”

“Thank you, Mr. Hubert. I think that innovation, cooperation, and diversity are the most important in our teaching, especially the interdisciplinary environment, which can better to solve the knowledge limitations of a single discipline, the limitations of inherent thinking, and can enrich the dimensions of problem-solving.”

“So grateful to you Dr. Hubert for a very refreshing and enlightening sharing.”

 


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