Dean Bonilla Shares Importance of Creating a Socially Conscience Campus
On April 24, 2014, Dean Jaime Bonilla R铆os from Tecnol贸gico de Monterrey visited Armour College of Engineering as a special guest of Dean Natacha DePaola. Tecnol贸gico de Monterrey is located in Monterrey, the capital and largest city in Nuevo Le贸n, Mexico. Established in 1943 the University currently has 31 campuses in 25 cities throughout Mexico. Tecnol贸gico de Monterrey serves almost 100,000 students at the high school, undergraduate, and postgraduate levels.
During his visit, Dean Bonilla gave a lecture titled The Challenge of Achieving a Vision of the University. In this lecture Dean Bonilla shared that the key to a University鈥檚 success is treating the University vision as a social contract. The University vision should not only consider what is best for the University, but what is best for society as a whole. At Tecnol贸gico de Monterrey, Dean Bonilla stated, their goal is to prepare students to be successful human beings that companies want to hire instead of just preparing future employees.
Tecnol贸gico de Monterrey has achieved great success treating their University vision as a social contract by addressing the individual elements that make up the contract. They have partnered with companies and organizations that share their socially conscious vision. They have hired teachers and created learning spaces that effectively communicate to students of the digital age. Most importantly their vision focuses on addressing contemporary challenges that face all of society.
Dean Bonilla hopes that IIT can learn from the successes at Tecnol贸gico de Monterrey and that his visit will create a platform for collaboration with Armour College and IIT as a whole.
In his closing remarks Dean Bonilla invited IIT students to spend a Summer at Tecnol贸gico de Monterrey working on the numerous research projects going on at the school.
