10A - Collegial Partnerships and Mobility – Never Eat Alone Anymore (60mins)
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| Wednesday, March 15, 2023 |
| 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM |
| 110A |
Details
Collegial international partnerships and mobility serve as the authentic rituals to ensuring a sustainable future for international education in the Asia Pacific. Rather than becoming habituated to common ways of operating, like-minded institutions collaborated within the region by putting a higher premium on the establishment of academic alliances. An ongoing dynamic of higher education dialogue is made prestigious through continuous generating and sharing of knowledge amongst partnering institutions. Hybrid programs, virtual meetings, webinars, and social media inclusion continue to provide an exceptional access for learning opportunities to people who might otherwise be excluded or marginalized. International staff and students within the alliance benefited from the distillation of intrinsic values by manifesting cooperative programs and activities while simultaneously ensuring a sustainable approach that supports global prominence of universities. Adapting the never-eat-alone modern classic approach, this panel presentation shall explains the art of networking and gives you actionable advice on how we can harness the power of good relationships and become a good networker to build a successful partnership and mobility within the context of higher education.
Learning Objectives:
After this presentation, participants will be able to:
• Identify barriers and opportunities related to diversity and inclusion of partnering universities within the higher education institutions in Asia Pacific through real-life shared experiences based on the Asia-Oceania Five Universities Alliance (AOFUA).
• Identify various actions and interventions that can be applied by international offices of universities to promote a more diverse workforce and a more inclusive work environment.
• Use lessons learnt from experience-shared discussion during the presentation that have developed new and innovative approaches.
Target Audience:
• Individuals of any age interested in learning real life experiences on the topic of collegial partnerships and mobility in the international higher education sector with particular emphasis on optimizing academic alliances in Asia Pacific.
• International offices of higher education institutions, academia, TNE, students’ admission and recruitment, etc.
Target Audience Level:
Beginner, Intermediate, Advance
Presenter(s)
Dr Laurene Chua-Garcia
Vice-President for External Relations and Internationalization
De La Salle University
Collegial Partnerships and Mobility – Never Eat Alone Anymore
4:30 PM - 5:30 PMBiography
Dr. Laurene Chua-Garcia is the Vice President for External Relations and Internationalization of De La Salle University (DLSU) Manila and heads the Internationalization Committee in the Asia-Pacific Region for the International Association of Lasallian Universities (IALU). She also represented the Philippines on behalf of its Commission on Higher Education (CHED) in various assignments with University Mobility in Asia and the Pacific (UMAP) and ASEAN International Mobility for Students (AIMS), to name a few.
Dr Itthisek Nilkhamhang
Deputy Director of International Affairs and Corporate Relations
Sirindhorn International Institute of Technology, Thailand
Collegial Partnerships and Mobility – Never Eat Alone Anymore
4:30 PM - 5:30 PMBiography
Dr. Itthisek Nilkhamhang received his B.Eng. in Electrical Engineering from Sirindhorn International Institute of Technology, Thammasat University (Thailand), in 2002, and his M.Eng. and Ph.D. in Integrated Design Engineering from Keio University (Japan) in 2005 and 2008, respectively. He joined Sirindhorn International Institute of Technology (SIIT), Thammasat University, as a full-time faculty member in 2008.
Assoc Prof Norhayati Abdullah
Associate Director UTM International Kuala Lumpur
Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
Collegial Partnerships and Mobility – Never Eat Alone Anymore
4:30 PM - 5:30 PMBiography
Norhayati Abdullah, Associate Professor in Environmental Engineering at UTM has received numerous global recognitions including the L'Oréal-UNESCO for Women in Science Fellowship, IWA Young Water Professional Award and a Fulbright US-ASEAN Visiting Scholar. She was Board of Director of the International Water Association (IWA) and Guest Scholar at Kyoto University.
Chairperson
Nor Haniza Sarmin
Professor of Mathematics
Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
