President Richard C. Levin will strengthen and expand Yale's ties to one of the United States' nearest neighbors during a trip to Mexico this month.
Levin will head a group of Yale administrators and faculty who will travel to Mexico City on May 13-14 to meet with senior officials in the Mexican government, colleagues from the nation's leading universities and Yale alumni to discuss the University's many international initiatives and to establish new ones.
During the University's 300th anniversary celebration, Levin announced that a major focus of the next century is to make Yale a truly global university -- educating future world leaders and advancing the frontiers of knowledge throughout the globe.
As part of this international initiative, the University created the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization, soon to be headed by former Mexican president and Yale alumnus Ernesto Zedillo, and the World Fellows Program, which will bring its first class of 18 emerging international leaders (including four from Latin America) to the University next year to study global issues. The University's other global programs include the Yale Center for International and Area Studies, which was established in 1961 and is home of the Council on Latin American and Iberian Studies, and both longstanding and new programs at the graduate and professional schools, such as the School of Management's recently created International Institute for the Study of Global Governance, headed by Professor Florencio López-de-Silanes.
During the trip to Mexico, Yale officials will also meet with high school students to discuss the recent expansion of the University's need-blind admissions policy to international students. Under this policy, students from Mexico and other nations are admitted to Yale College without consideration of their financial situation, a policy previously applied only to students from the United States. The new policy, which is designed to ensure that Yale attracts outstanding students from around the world, was instituted last year and has already resulted in an increase in the number of international students attending Yale College.
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