Propuesta para la actualización de la matriz de convenios multicampus

Abstract

The General International Affairs Department, based on the information found on the official page of the National Directorate of International Relations (2022) " focuses on serving and supporting the mobility of students, teachers, researchers and administrative staff in order to to increase the visibility of the University as a High Quality Higher Education Institution at an international level ” and under this premise promotes the creation of institutional agreements with educational entities, private and public companies for the benefit of the Tomasin community. Due to the nature of the object under study, it is necessary to continuously verify and update the data presented to the community with the pourpose of having clarity in the information that we submit, not only for the Tomasin student community, which is interested in carrying out Academic exchanges, also for the teaching and administrative staff with the duty of instructing students in their processes.

Therefore the purpose of this improvement plan is; First, to explain the relevance of the internationalization processes in the specific case of Higher Education Institutions, which is established by the Ministry of National Education in the Internationalization Guide (2015); while showing the importance of internationalization explained in the Policy and guidelines of Multicampus Internationalization established in agreement No. 19, of November 19, 2020, where the Superior Council of the Santo Tomás University reiterates the relevance of internationalization and the guidelines to be followed by the General International Affairs Department -DRI-.

Secondly, it´s intended to contextualize the data presented in the current multi-campus agreement data base through first-hand information sources such as the USTA Colombia National and International Agreement Control Matrix, which was used throughout professional practice. Finally, in a third moment, the proposal for the 2022-2 agreement data abse will be presented, which seeks to promote the centralizing role that the Directorate of International Relations fulfills at the multi-campus level, as well as standardize the information submited to the community in the different sections.