New Dual Degrees with OSU and UPAEP in Agriculture!!
Universidad Popular Autónoma del Estado de Puebla
Dr. David Lewis of the Department of Forestry has accepted the responsibility of program coordination between the Division of Agriculture at OSU and UPAEP in Puebla, Mexico. UPAEP is a private university with strong ties to OSU and a small but growing Division of Agriculture. Programs that are planned include student practical training programs at OSU, faculty exchange programs, jointly taught courses and other activities that create linkeages between OSU and UPAEP to mutually strengthen the institutions. Dr. David Lewis will visit UPAEP in May 2005 and three students from UPAEP will spend June of 2005 in a practical training program at OSU. Dr. Lewis's Itinerary in Puebla, Mexico May 2005
Special Summer 2006 Intensive Spanish Language Program
for Agribusiness Managers
During a visit to Oklahoma State University in January 2006, the UPAEP Language Center has agreed to offer a special Spanish language program for College of Agriculture students titled "Spanish for Agribusiness Managers". This program will be offered if we are able to achieve enrollment of 15 students. If not, a normal intensive Spanish language program will still be available to those who wish to attend. The cost is $1,400 dollars and that includes tuition, three meals per day on week days, transfers to and from the Mexico City airport, and an unbelievable homestay with a Mexican family for the entire time. This is a good economic value. Sr. L. Agustin Landa, the Vice-Rector for Enrollment and Development at UPAEP, welcomes all students from the College of Agriculture at Oklahoma State University who wish to enroll in this program. Credit is available through Oklahoma State University, but students may enroll in this program with or without the expense of tuition. To print out the application form, click on the icon below. Please inform Dr. David Lewis and Dr. David Henneberry of your intention to enroll in this program.
In this program students may enroll in 1-5 credits of "Ag 3080 Spanish for Agribusiness Managers". OSU course enrollment for this program is in 139 Ag Hall (not at the registrar - this is an OSU extension course). This course does not carry the "I" designation. The tuition at OSU costs $150.00 per credit hour and is the same for both residents and non-residents.
SPANISH IMMERSION PROGRAM
SUMMER 2006 June 5th – July 1st
From this site you can download the registration, housing and health forms that are required by UPAEP for all program participants. Please clearly mark on your form that you are enrolling for the OSU-UPAEP Spanish for Agribusiness Managers Intensive Program.
This program has been approved to meet the foreign language requirement for Ag Ed Majors with a Teaching Degree - see the approval letter below:
About UPAEP
The Universidad Popular Autonoma del Estado de Puebla (UPAEP) was founded in 1973 in response to the need for quality higher education in Puebla, Mexico, and is private universities in Mexico accredited by the Federacion de Instituciones Mexicanas Particulares de Educacion Superior (FIMPES), and is a member of Asociacion Nacional de Universidades e Institutciones de Educacion Superior (ANUIES). UPAEP currently offers 31 bachelor’s degrees, 13 masters degrees, and 11 doctorates, and has a student population of more than 11, 000 located at different campuses.
Service attributes:
- Self-sustaining university with high standards of academic achievement,
- Strong relationships between academic classes and the business community,
- Urban campuses linked to communities and social offices
- High percentage of alumni in the job market (70%)
- Serving humanitarian, business, and academic interests.
About the UPAEP/OSU partnership:
In the summer of 1994, UPAEP’s Provost, Vincent Pacheco, came to Oklahoma to follow up with activities associated with the Partners of the Americas (POA) program between the partner states of Oklahoma and Puebla. During his stay in Oklahoma, Mr. Pacheco visited several educational campuses, including Oklahoma State University (OSU), where he met with Dr. Arthur Klatt, Director of OSU’s International Affairs division within the School of Agriculture. Upon further discussion and development, UPAEP and OSU co-signed a letter of understanding between the universities to explore mutual interests and develop educational opportunities. Mr. Rodolfo Carvajal from UPAEP coordinated activities associated with POA projects.
Since then, other visits between university personnel have included a 1996 trip co-sponsored by POA by Dr. William Venable, to present leadership skills to non-governmental organizations (NGOs); a 2001 trip by Mr. Carvajal as UPAEP’s director of International Projects to meet with the OSU College of Agriculture and the OSU Wellness Center to discuss the Oklahoma Agriculture Mediation Program in conjunction with POA activities; in 2002, Dr. Daryl Peel from OSU’s College of Agriculture visited UPAEP faculty and its School of Agronomics; in 2002, UPAEP’s Professor Maria Fabregas was assigned for a year of interaction at OSU’s Wellness Center to work with OSU’s new Institute for Issue Management and Alternative Dispute Resolution (IIMADR); in 2003, five-member from OSU taught a ten-day course on alternative dispute resolution and issue management at UPAEP.
In the 2003 course, 25 students participated in the lecture and role-play class, leading to the development and formation of an Institute for Issue Management and Alternative Dispute Resolution at UPAEP in Puebla, to be operational in 2004.
UPAEP's Director of International Programs:
Lic. Rodolfo Carvajal
Director de Relaciones Internacionales
UPAEP
Puebla, Pue
Tel. 011 52 222 229 9498
E mail rcarvaj@upaep.mx
UPAEP is Located in Puebla, Mexico
In a broad, high valley about 60 miles southeast of Mexico City is a city known by many names over the years: City of Angels, City of Tiles, Heroic City of Zaragoza. Today we know it as simply Puebla.
Established by the Spanish in 1531 on the main route between the port of Veracruz (the most important port in Mexico) and Mexico City, Puebla was the principal city of colonial Mexico. Puebla's appearance is the most European of all the colonial cities, because it was planned from the ground up by a Spanish city designer rather than being built within an existing Indian community.
By 1539, Puebla had a university and was on its way to becoming well-known throughout Mexico for milling, textiles, exquisitely decorated pottery and tiles, and for the architectural beauty of its buildings.
Although modern Puebla is highly industrialized, its historic downtown remains a Spanish-colonial treasure filled with elegant 17th and 18th century European architecture and art. When you add a temperate climate year-around, friendly and courteous residents (called poblanos) and delicious regional cuisine, Puebla becomes the ideal place to learn Spanish.
General Information. Pronounced PWEH-BLAH. Located in the Puebla Valley, 129 km (80 miles) southeast of Mexico City. Altitude: 2,149 m. (7,091 ft.). Population in 2000: 1,346,000. It is the capital of the state of Puebla and one of Mexico's oldest Spanish cities, founded in 1531. Legend has it that a band of angels appeared to Bishop Julian Garcés, one of the founders, pointing out where to situate the new city. Hence the nickname Angelopolis (City of Angels). Locals are called poblanos.
Puebla is renowned for its distinctive colonial architecture, savory cuisine, Talavera ceramics, onyx crafts, and textile industry. The indigenous language of the region, Náhuatl, is still spoken in some rural areas of the Puebla Valley. Mexican troops defeated French invaders here on May 5, 1862, at the Forts of Loreto and Guadalupe. The Mexican Revolution began in Puebla as well, on November 18, 1910, when federal soldiers and police attacked the home of the Serdán family. In 1987, UNESCO designated Puebla a World Heritage City. A serious earthquake on June 15, 1999, damaged many notable buildings, but restoration efforts began almost immediately. Virtually all the principal historic sites reopened by the summer of 2001.