Editorial/Quadratín Jalisco
LOS ANGELES, California., November 2, 2024.- The University of Guadalajara inaugurated a new headquarters in the city of Los Angeles, California. This, thanks to the strategic linkage and cooperation and mobility agreements that the UdeG has made through the University of Guadalajara Foundation USA for 16 years.
This new headquarters is not only administrative, but also academic and cultural within the facilities of Arizona State University, in Los Angeles, California.
There is a Jalisco community of almost 2 million people in Los Angeles, which makes it the American city with the largest number of residents in our state; For this reason, the UdeG has been in charge of opening spaces for academic, cultural, literary development and the preservation of traditions abroad.
Through a statement, it was announced that one of the purposes fulfilled with this opening is to provide a physical space so that graduates of the UdeG who did not manage to obtain their degree before moving to the United States can do so, in addition to specify a place where educational services can be provided to the Jalisco and Mexican population residing in Los Angeles.
“What we are doing is one of the most complex undertakings for a Mexican university: consolidating a space of operational services for those who for various reasons today live in the United States, who can carry out procedures such as obtaining a degree; But our dream does not stop there, also for the first time, we will have a space to carry out educational services and improve our cultural encounters,” said the General Rector of the UdeG, Ricardo Villanueva Lomelí, during the ceremony.
He added that all those graduates who have not graduated due to location, social service or professional internship issues will now be able to do so, thanks to the fact that with this new headquarters the academic process can be carried out and it will be established that internships and service can be carried out. social in North American territory.
CULTURAL EVENTS
Regarding the Spanish Book Fair and the LéaLA Literary Festival, as well as the GuadaLAjara Film Festival (GLAFF) and other cultural projects, he explained that the new headquarters will serve as coworking for the development of activities, so that the projects can have greater consolidation and giving back to society in a greater way.
Enrique Alfaro Ramírez, governor of Jalisco, said that the headquarters marks a milestone in the expansion and opening of continuing education programs and activities designed to serve the Mexican and Latino community, thereby reinforcing the commitment to education, culture and academic exchange between both countries.
He added that along with Villanueva Lomelí, they are closing a cycle of intense work, so it is important to understand that the depth of the message that is seeing the UdeG present, not only in spirit and spirit, but physically in Los Angeles, California.
“The UdeG, allied with a university as prestigious as the University of Arizona, represents at the same time the best way that I could imagine of recognizing the women and men, particularly from Jalisco, who have built a life project here, who “They have been an example and inspiration for many of us, who know what they have been through, what it means to come to a foreign country to start a life,” added the president.
He celebrated that due to its strategic position, the Arizona State University campus in Los Angeles will facilitate collaboration and exchange between students and academics from both institutions, which will promote research, the development of innovative programs and the formation of an academic community. entrepreneur.
For his part, the director of the Virtual University and Digital Learning for Life (UDGPlus), Dr. Carlos Iván Moreno Arellano, pointed out that this project consolidates work carried out for years, in which the hybrid academic offer will gradually be detonated and will provide the opportunity to complete or carry out their studies to thousands of Jalisco residents abroad.
“Within the framework of the LéaLA Festival, the first 150 Mexicans graduated who completed the online family business certification for almost a year; These short-term professional certifications are part of the hybrid modality offer that exists thanks to the project and will multiply in the coming months with the academic headquarters,” he mentioned.
He added that the commitment of UdeG and Arizona State University is to provide inclusive and innovative education, which was a pillar in creating the existing alliance and allowing them to have a physical space within their campus; In addition, he pointed out that students and graduates who come to carry out procedures or study at UdeG Los Angeles will be able to have access to all the facilities of the North American university.
