IAU 14th General Conference

IAU 14th General Conference: Documents and Presentations
The IAU held its 14th General Conference from 27 to 30 November 2012 in San Juan, Puerto Rico, in partnership with the Inter American University of Puerto Rico, an IAU Member institution which celebrated its 100th Anniversary.
Bringing together close to 400 participants from over 75 countries, the General Conference elected the 2012-2016 IAU President and Administrative Board and participants heard presentations and discussed the theme Higher Education and the Global Agenda, focusing on 3 major areas: how higher education institutions address the challenges facing humanity; the nature of the current dominant funding models and where they are steering higher education and research; and the agenda for internationalization of higher education.
In concurrent sessions, topics such as open educational resources, academic mobility, ethics in higher education, equitable access and success, public-private partnerships, gender issues in higher education, doctoral education and numerous others were among those on which participants also shared their perspectives and good practices.
The final Programme of the Conference, the documents presented in the Business Sessions and all the presentations received by the Secretariat are now available on the General Conference webpage. The IAU thanks particularly all the Speakers and Chairs who took part in this event and who initiated such interesting and enriching exchanges.
The IAU is already beginning its planning for the 2014 International Conference which will be held at the Universidad Cientifica del Perú in March of that year and will address the theme of Sustainable Development and Traditional Indigenous Knowledge. We hope that you will be able to join us in Peru!