After the great success of the Oxford and Wroxton IAUP 50th Anniversary Conference, held last May 22-24, the third semi-annual meeting of this triennium (2014-2017) will be held in Gold Coast, Australia on October 14-16, 2015. The host institution will be Bond University and the President and Vice Chancellor, Prof. Tim Brailsford and his team are ready to receive those of you who decide to participate.
Invitation to Australia IAUP Semi-Annual meeting
October 14-16, 2015After the great success of the Oxford and Wroxton IAUP 50th Anniversary Conference, held last May 22-24, the third semi-annual meeting of this triennium (2014-2017) will be held in Gold Coast, Australia on October 14-16, 2015. The host institution will be Bond University and the President and Vice Chancellor, Prof. Tim Brailsford and his team are ready to receive those of you who decide to participate.
The International Association of University Presidents returned to the location of its first ever meeting – Oxford and Wroxton, United Kingdom. Conference venues included Oxford University’s Trinity College, which hosted one day of the historic 1965 meeting, and Fairleigh Dickinson University’s Wroxton College, which hosted the other day. For five decades the International Association of University Presidents, or IAUP, has served as the voice of global higher education, promoting peace, mutual understanding and respect through academic diplomacy and fostering the vitality and reach of higher education institutions through energetic international partnerships.
More than 200 higher education leaders attended the international pre-conference session co-sponsored by the International Association of University Presidents (IAUP) and the Center for Internationalization and Global Engagement (CIGE) at the Annual Meeting of the American Council on Education (ACE), on 14 March 2015.
Our Oxford/Wroxton meeting is fast approaching, May 22-24, 2015. Please be advised that all the rooms at the McDonald Randolph Hotel, the meeting venue, have been filled out. Any members who are still interested in attending the meeting should be able to find alternative lodging.
Association of Universities of Asia and the Pacific
20th AnniversaryWe are delighted to announce that our sister organization, the Association of Universities of Asia and the Pacific (AUAP,) will celebrate its 20th Anniversary in July 2015, which will coincide with the 25th Founding Anniversary of Suranaree University of Technology (SUT) where the AUAP Headquarter is housed. As IAUP member, we deem it important to invite you to this event as AUAP and IAUP are partner organizations.
We are pleased to invite all IAUP members and the academic community worldwide to celebrate with us our Semi-Annual meeting "Higher Education in 2065" to be held on May 20-25, 2015 at Oxford and Wroxton, United Kingdom. The IAUP 50th Anniversary meeting will be held in Oxford at Trinity College and Wroxton College (Farleigh Dickinson University, Oxfordshire.) This will be a conference of historical importance for IAUP. The co-hosts of this conference will be Farleigh Dickinson University and Kyung Hee University, two of our IAUP founding institutions. Other sponsors include ELS and Seoul Cyber University.
The following event by one of our IAUP members may be of interest to many in higher education, especially those interested in Latin America and the Caribbean. The Universidad Autónoma de Guadalajara (UAG,) a longtime IAUP member will host the 11th International Conference of the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities (HACU,) on February 25-27, 2015. The Title of this conference is "100,000 Strong in the Americas: Challenges and Opportunities for a More Prosperous and Fair Hemisphere."
Many Languages, One World
Give your students the opportunity to speak at the United Nations!We are pleased to announce that ELS and the United Nations Academic Impact global initiative are working together again to support the positive impact of multilingualism through the Many Languages, One World— Student Essay Competition and Youth Forum. Many Languages, One World is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for talented, bright multilingual students to present their perspective and opinions at the General Assembly of the United Nations Headquarters in New York City. This year’s essay topic asks students to research and reflect on the proposed sustainability goals of the United Nations post-2015 global development agenda.
The following event by one of our IAUP members may be of interest to many in higher education, especially those interested in Latin America and the Caribbean.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon paid tribute to J. Michael Adams, former president of Fairleigh Dickinson University, at the launch of the new Conversation Series named in his honor. Organized by the United Nations Academic Impact (UNAI) program, which President Adams helped create, the J. Michael Adams Conversation Series each year will invite a globally renowned scholar to speak to, and interact with, the United Nations community on a subject of global significance and interest.
The first IAUP semi-annual meeting of the 2014-2017 triennium was very successfully held in Prague on September 12-14, 2014, with the gracious hospitality of our host, Rector Bohuslava Senkyrová, of the University of Finance and Administration (VSFS) and the patronage of the President of the Czech Republic, Mr. Miloš Zeman. A representative from the Presidency of the Czech Republic honored us with his presence at the gala dinner on September 14, 2014. IAUP President Toyoshi Satow and Rector Bohuslava Senkyrová both referred to the fact that this meeting marks the very first time that an IAUP meeting takes places in Prague.
The IAUP XVII Triennial Conference was held in Yokohama, Japan from June 11-14, 2014 with complete success. About 400 participants from around the world gathered in the most important event of our association every three years. This marked the second time that a triennial conference was held in Japan. The X Triennial Conference was held in Kobe, Japan on July 11-14, 1993.
WISE Education Leadership Program is seeking applications from IAUP member presidents and their colleagues.
The 2014-17 IAUP President was recently interviewed by the UNN Newsletter. During this interview he discussed his vision for the future of IAUP and higher education.
