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Passionate about higher education, specifically about internationalization & student mobility as well as innovation in education.

Solid experience in student and international affairs at a world-class university.

I aspire to generate new knowledge in the field of higher education administration and to become a change agent for internationalization strategies.

Through my research and practice, I look for ways in which internationalization can be better aligned with the public-good mission of higher education institutions.

Research Interests
  • Ethical approaches to the internationalization of higher education.

  • Balancing public and private purposes of higher education.

  • Higher education institutions organizational theory, administration, institutional mission.

  • Higher Education ranking systems and methodologies.

  • Intercultural competencies acquired through study abroad programs.

  • Globally competent students and their impact in their communities after college.

Languages
  • Spanish (Native)

  • English (Full Proficiency)

University of Arizona
Ph.D. Higher Education

​2015 - 2020

 

Dissertation: “Conscientious Academic Capitalism: Mexican Counternarratives to Anglo-American University Internationalization Practices”. *

Chair: Gary Rhoades.

Committee members: Jenny J. Lee, Mathew M. Mars

 

*Winner of the 2022 Comparative and International Education

  Society's Higher Education SIG "Dissertation of the Year" award

Grants, Fellowships and Scholarships:

  • 2019-2020 Recipient of the College of Education Ph.D. Completion Support Award

  • 2018-2019 Recipient of the Donna Mae Miller Scholarship

  • 2018-2019 Recipient of the Dr. Sam Lee and Sallie SauLan Lee Scholarship

  • 2017-2018 Recipient of the Dolores R. Kaith Scholarship

  • 2017-2018 Recipient of the Frank T. Saunders Memorial Scholarship

  • 2016-2017 Recipient of the Everett L. and Marian G. Holden Scholarship

  • 2015-2019 CONACYT Fellowship

EGADE Business School (Monterrey, MX)
M.S. Finance

​2007 - 2009

Tecnológico de Monterrey (Guadalajara, MX)
B.S. Industrial and Systems Engineering
​2002 - 2006

Education
Work​
Experience​
Seton Hall University
Department of Education Leadership Management and Policy
College of Education and Human Services
Position: Assistant Professor
August 2022 - Present
Consortium for North American Higher Education Collaboration (CONAHEC)
Position: Mobility Coordinator
​October 2015 - October 2022
Main responsibilities:​​
  • Redesign and manage the international student exchange program.

  • Design and manage the short-term faculty exchange program.

  • Planning and execution of the annual CONAHEC conference on higher education.

  • Assistance in the design and implementation of the North American Center for Collaborative Development (NACCD). (Project funded with a $150,000 USD grant from the U. S. Department of State, Mexico’s Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores and Canada’s Global Affairs.)

University of Arizona
Center for the Study of Higher Education
Position: Postdoctoral Research Associate
​Jan 2021 - January 2022
Projects and Funded Grants:
  • Indigenous Communities in The Americas Learning and Thriving Together Through Higher Education (CO-PI)

University of Arizona
Center for the Study of Higher Education
Position: Research Assistant (PI Dr. Jenny J. Lee)
​May 2017 - Dec 2020
Main responsibilities:​​
  • Assess University of Arizona’s international micro-campus strategy.

  • Teaching Assistant for Dr. Jenny J. Lee´s International and Comparative Education Course

University of Arizona Global, Study UA
Position: Study UA Coordinator
​June 2019 - August 2019
Main responsibilities:​​
  • Execute all aspects of the Research Mentoring Summer Program for international students. Oversee all program preparation logistics, applications, personnel, budgets, curricular development, and assessment including curriculum, orientation, mentor matching, cultural trips, program evaluation, and website updates, etc.

  • Partner with other areas at the University of Arizona to research new program opportunities and promote on-going programs. Explore and develop affordable outbound experiential learning trips in the region for UA students and faculty. Promote student participation in Intercultural Competence badging program as a tool to promote participation in local cultural programs badging programs.

Tecnológico de Monterrey, Shared Services Center
Position: Director for International Programs
​October 2012 - July 2015
Main responsibilities:​​
  • Redesign and implement a new operational process for incoming and outgoing student mobility at the different institutions of the ITESM System.
  • Set-up a unit at the shared services center to manage a centralized operation of study abroad programs for both incoming students (approx. 4,000 per year) and outgoing students (approx. 8,000 per year) including applications and admissions, nomination to foreign universities (more than 600 partner institutions) and attend general inquiries from students and advisors at the local campi.
Tecnológico de Monterrey, Vice-presidency for Academic Affairs - International Programs Office
Position: Director for International Cooperation
​February 2009 - October 2012
Main responsibilities:​​
  • Redesign and implement a new operational process for incoming and outgoing student mobility at the different institutions of the ITESM System.
  • Set-up a unit at the shared services center to manage a centralized operation of study abroad programs for both incoming students (approx. 4,000 per year) and outgoing students (approx. 8,000 per year) including applications and admissions, nomination to foreign universities (more than 600 partner institutions) and attend general inquiries from students and advisors at the local campi.
Tecnológico de Monterrey, Campus Guadalajara. 
Position: Student Success Center, coordinator for first-year experience and retention programs.

​January 2007 - January 2009

Main responsibilities:​​

  • Design and implement an assessment program for the retention efforts on campus. 

  • Design and coordinate the first-year program and orientation week.

  • Design, administer and analyze the surveys EDNA (Diagnostic Survey for Incoming Students) & EDPA (Diagnostic Survey for First-Year Students)

Teaching​
Experience​
Seton Hall University
  • ELMP9993 Organization, Administration, and Governance of Higher Education (Spring 2024, Spring 2025)

  • ELPM7774 International and Comparative Higher Education (Summer 2023, 2024, 2025)

  • ELMP9962 Advanced Qualitative Research Methods (Spring 2023, Spring 2024, Spring 2025)

  • HRTD7100 Culturally Relevant Pedagogy and Curriculum (Spring 2023)

  • ELMP7777 Diversity in Higher Education (Fall 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025)

  • ELMP8986 Qualitative Research Methods (Fall 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025)0

Service to the Profession
Advisory Board

Editorial Board
  • Founder and Associate Editor - Critical Internationalization Studies Review

  • Assistant Editor – The Journal of Global Higher Education (2025—present)

  • Assistant Editor – Journal of International Students (2021-2023)

    • Recipient of a 2019 Editor’s Choice Award for service among the top 10% reviewers.

  • Member of the editorial board of the peer-reviewed journal Educación Global (2018-present).

 

Ad-hoc Peer Reviewer
  • Bloomsbury Higher Education Book Series

  • Education Policy Analysis Archives (epaa)

  • Frontiers: The interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad.

  • Globalisation, Societies and Education

  • Higher Education

  • Journal of Comparative and International Higher Education.

  • Journal of Higher Education

  • Journal of Studies in International Education

  • Internationalisation of Higher Education

  • Routledge Studies on Global Student Mobility Book Series

  • Revista de la Educación Superior

  • Partners of the Americas. Grant application reviews for the 100,000 Strong in the Americas Innovation Fund competitions. (2016-17)

 

Professional Associations
  • Critical Internationalization Studies Network (CISN)

  • Member of the Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE)

    • CIHE Conference Program Co-Chair for the 2023 and 2024 Annual Conference

    • Graduate Student Liaison, Council on International Higher Education (2018-2020).

    • Co-organizer of the 2019 and 2020 mentoring session during the annual conference.

    • 2017-2024 ASHE Conference proposal reviewer

    • 2021, 2023, 2024 Served as discussant

  • NAFSA: Association of International Educators

    • Member of the Emerging Scholar-Practitioner Working Group (Teaching, Learning, and Scholarship Knowledge Community)

  • Member of the Comparative and International Education Society (CIES)

    • 2020, 2021, 2022, 2024 Awards Committee Member for the Study Abroad and International Students SIG and the Higher Education SIG.

    • 2018 and 2020-2022 Conference proposal reviewer.

    • 2022, 2023 Conference discussant.

  • Member of the American Educational Research Association (AERA)

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