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Centro Universitario Incarnate Word Grad Lands Position with Fortune 500 Company
Incarnate Word Among Top 100 Hispanic Serving Schools
UIW Receives Wal-Mart Minority Student Success Award
Centro Universitario Incarnate Word Grad Lands Position with Fortune 500 Company
On Saturday June 13, Centro Universitario Incarnate Word (CIW), UIW’s campus located in Mexico City held commencement ceremonies for its second graduating class. Twelve students earning their Bachelor of Business Administration degrees crossed the stage with UIW administrators, faculty, friends and family looking on.
CIW student, Carlos Salvá graduated knowing his future was secure having landed a prestigious position with Procter & Gamble Worldwide (P&G.) During his junior year, Salvá was accepted as an intern with P&G Mexico after passing a grueling exam, surviving a tough interview process as well as competing for the position with 45 other students from universities across Mexico. Salvá held that position for over a year and was then offered a full time position, upon graduation, where he will manage P&G Mexico operations in the states of Chiapas and Oaxaca managing a $7 million dollar budget. Salvá accepted the offer with the condition that he be allowed to complete the coursework necessary to receive his final diploma required by the Mexican government. Not only did P&G agree they also offered to fly Salvá to Mexico City each week at their expense for the four months it will take him to complete the program.
“The P&G internship program is one of the most competitive in Mexico. We are proud that Salvá’s skills and abilities in combination with the academic level and education that CIW provided, allowed him to be successfully recruited by P&G. We extend our congratulations and well wishes for a successful career,” said Marcos Fragoso, CIW Mexico Executive Director.
CIW commencement was attended by UIW President, Dr. Louis J. Agnese, as well as other dignitaries and special guests including UIW faculty and members of the UIW Board of Trustees. Dr. José Manuel Vargas served as the keynote speaker for the event.
Dr. José Manuel Vargas is a lawyer with more than 10 years of experience in International Business. He has more than 25 years of service at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de México. He is an author and has been awarded many medals for his academic service.
CIW opened as a way for students in Mexico to earn dual undergraduate college degrees from an American university that are fully recognized on both sides of the border by each country’s respective education agencies. The school opened in Fall 2004 with 25 students offering only three programs and now has more than 200 students and offers 8 programs.
For more information, contact Margaret Garcia, associate director of public relations at 210-829-6001 or at mlgarci2@uiwtx.edu.
Incarnate Word Among Top 100 Hispanic Serving Schools
The University of the Incarnate Word is proud to announce its listing in Hispanic Outlook in Higher Education magazine as one of the top 100 universities serving Hispanics in the United States.
Each year Hispanic Outlook in Higher Education publishes its list of the top 100 four-year colleges and universities in the U.S. conferring the most bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees on Hispanic students. UIW is listed no. 51 among those universities conferring bachelor’s degrees and no. 42 among those universities awarding master’s degrees to Hispanics.
The information cited by Hispanic Outlook in Higher Education is derived from the U.S. Department of Education’s Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System program.
For more information, contact Margaret Garcia, associate director of public relations at 210-829-6001 or at mlgarci2@uiwtx.edu.
UIW Receives Wal-Mart Minority Student Success Award
The University of the Incarnate Word has been selected by the Institute for Higher Education Policy (IHEP) to receive a Wal-Mart Minority Student Success Award—a $100,000 grant to help build on UIW’s demonstrated successes in enrolling, retaining, and graduating first-generation college students. UIW was one of only 15 minority-serving institutions (MSIs) selected through a highly competitive application process to strengthen efforts to support first-generation students.
“The University of the Incarnate Word is honored to be selected as one of the outstanding institutions of higher education nationwide to receive this award,” said Dr. David Jurenovich, VP for Enrollment Management & Student Services. “Thanks to the generosity and vision of Wal-Mart, the university will be able to continue to enhance and expand our commitment to first-generation students and their success.”
UIW’s Student Success Award will be used to introduce a faculty development program focused on first generation sophomore student success. The initiative will educate faculty on sophomore challenges and ways of realigning teaching approaches to address these challenges and structure opportunities for faculty to share and be recognized for successful models for serving first generation sophomore students. UIW faculty will apply these strategies to first generation sophomore students through a cohesive freshman to sophomore transition initiative, to be conducted in advance of the sophomore year “We are excited to be working with such a diverse group of minority-serving institutions focused on improving the success of this critical student group,” said IHEP president Michelle Asha Cooper. “Their planned initiatives demonstrate a long-term commitment to first generation student success that builds on their well-established mission to retain and graduate underserved student populations.”
“The Wal-Mart Foundation is committed to helping our nation’s young adults live better – supporting programs that provide access to higher education is a key part of our commitment,” said Margaret McKenna, president of the Wal-Mart Foundation. “We are confident that our partnership with the Institute for Higher Education Policy and minority-serving institutions will positively impact many first-generation college students and assure their academic success.
Approximately 41 percent of students enrolled at MSIs are first-generation college students, compared to 30 percent of students at predominately white institutions. Because of their overrepresentation of first-generation students, MSIs are ideally situated to improve retention and persistence gaps for these students.
The Wal-Mart College Success Awards program is administered by IHEP and made possible by a generous $4.2 million grant from the Wal-Mart Foundation.
IHEP will select a second cohort of Wal-Mart Minority Student Success institutions in spring 2010.
For more information, contact Margaret Garcia, associate director of public relations at 210-829-6001 or at mlgarci2@uiwtx.edu.
