José F. Méndez Dr.hc

Alberto Maldonado Ruíz,Chancellor UNE; Dr. NagwaM. Megahed, Ph.D. AssistantProfessor, Ain Shams University,Cairo, Egypt and FulbrightScholar-In-Residence and VisitingProfessor of Arabic Language andMiddle Eastern Studies, Universityof Southern Mississippi; Mrs.Anne Howard, Vice Chancellorof International, Federal andCorporate Affairs at UNE and JhonSanabria Rodríguez, Dean forSocial and Human Sciences Schoolat Universidad del Este.language learning center to stimulate the study offoreign and critical languages. And, AGMUS boastsan impressive roster of visiting foreign dignitaries,such as the Dominican Ambassador to the U.S.,Roberto B. Saladín, who gave a magisterial lecture atUT in May 2010.A major achievement in cyberspace is thenew International Affairs Office website: http://www.suagm.edu/international/, designed to promoteefforts and inform the community about activitiesgeared towards the goal.AGMUS will also spread its wings to the DominicanRepublic with plans to open a university center underUNE at the Cybernetic Park in that nation’s capital city.The center, based on the concept of a CommunityCollege, will offer associate degrees in health, culinaryarts and hotel management.While the internationalization plans are highprofile, the Executive Vice Presidency also overseesthe thirteen (13) university centers on the island andthree campuses in Florida.Student enrollment at the university centersreached 14,236 students at the end of the 2009-2010 academic year, an increase of 5.3 percent overthe prior year. Over the past five years, enrollmentincreased on average 5.7% yearly.Dr. Zhang Xu, Associate Professor and Assistant Dean,School of Management and Deputy Director, PersonnelOffice, Dalian University of Technology, Peoples Republicof China and Fulbright Scholar-In-Residence, School ofBusiness Administration, Benedictine University, Chicago,Illinois. Discoursed about “Doing business with China”, forBusiness Administration students at Universidad del Este.27