{"id":55014,"date":"2025-11-15T23:09:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T23:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/55014\/"},"modified":"2025-11-15T23:09:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T23:09:11","slug":"cetys-in-baja-california-seeks-to-boost-border-mega-region-through-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/55014\/","title":{"rendered":"CETYS in Baja California seeks to boost border ‘mega region’ through education"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>CETYS University event \u201cEmpowering Talent Beyond Borders\u201d 2025 (Photo courtesy of townhallcetys)<\/p>\n

CETYS University, as the only Mexican university accredited by California\u2019s WASC Senior College and University Commission<\/a> (WSCUC), means to make an impact, says President Fernando Le\u00f3n Garc\u00eda. <\/p>\n

So no one at the Baja California institution is resting on their laurels.<\/p>\n

\u201cAccreditation is not something that you achieve and then forget about,\u201d Le\u00f3n Garc\u00eda said. \u201cIt is something that you achieve and then have to continue to work on. It\u2019s not about achieving a certain level and staying at that level. It\u2019s continuously improving. Our commitment is to continue to be linked to, accredited by and improve the status that we have with WSCUC.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>CETYS University President Fernando Le\u00f3n-Garc\u00eda. (Photo courtesy of CETYS)<\/p>\n

CETYS hosted a recent town hall at UC San Diego Park & Market in the East Village, pitching its vision as a strategic partner for \u201cthe growth of the Cali-Baja mega-region\u201d to academics, business leaders, philanthropists from both sides of the border and local government officials.<\/p>\n

The university, with over 43,000 graduates and an employability rate exceeding 90%, has a role in San Diego and beyond, with campuses in Tijuana, Ensenada and Mexicali. More than 1000 of those graduates live and work in the region and throughout Southern California.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is no longer the case that we can offer a university degree without some level of exposure to the binational \u2014 in particular in this region \u2014 but also a global perspective,\u201d Le\u00f3n Garc\u00eda said. \u201cA university education needs to have embedded into it these perspectives \u2026 universities coming together enriches and provides synergies that otherwise (students) would not be exposed to.\u201d He calls that experience \u201cvalue added\u201d to their degrees.<\/p>\n

CETYS \u2013 which stands for Centro de Ense\u00f1anza T\u00e9cnica y Superior, or the Center for Technical and Higher Education \u2013 has forged partnerships with campuses in the region, to deliver joint degrees. They include UC San Diego, San Diego State, University of San Diego and Southwestern College. CETYS also offers student and faculty exchanges and workforce development initiatives on both sides of the border.<\/p>\n

One notable out-of-state partnership includes the City University of Seattle<\/a>, where students can earn their undergraduate degree at CETYS and City University of Seattle simultaneously.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>City University President Suzanne Walsh speaking at the CETYS University event \u201cEmpowering Talent Beyond Borders\u201d 2025 (Photo courtesy of CETYS)<\/p>\n

Students take hybrid courses and participate in study trips to the U.S. or Europe while obtaining two degrees<\/a>. <\/p>\n

\u201cMost of them (students) have had two-country experience, U.S. in Seattle and then Baja California,\u201d Dr. Le\u00f3n Garc\u00eda said. \u201cBut then a reasonable number of those (had a) three-country experience, where they were in Europe as well. They were in Prague, receiving a European experience and thereby \u2026 enhancing their capacity to understand multiple cultures and settings and (be) able to work effectively and efficiently with multinational corporations.\u201d<\/p>\n

Suzanne Walsh, president of City University of Seattle, has worked with the Gates Foundation and the Global Learning Council, and was the 19th president of\u00a0Bennett College<\/a>, a historically Black college for women. She wants to advance the binational education program<\/a> with CETYS.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese are two universities that complement each other and that together, I think, are really thinking about the future in big, powerful, meaningful, globally connected or \u2018glocally\u2019 connected ways,\u201d Walsh said. <\/p>\n

\u201cGlocal\u201d or \u201cglocally\u201d is a term Le\u00f3n Garc\u00eda and Walsh use to describe local and global benefits. Both of them want to build on their industry partnerships.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The CETYS University event in San Diego, \u201cEmpowering Talent Beyond Borders.\u201d (Photo courtesy of townhallcetys)<\/p>\n

\u201cWe help to support our students to think beyond one idea, beyond one cultural context,\u201d she said, mentioning high-profile companies such as Microsoft and Amazon for which the students will be \u201call the stronger\u201d as candidates once they enter the workforce.<\/p>\n

Le\u00f3n Garc\u00eda hope to expand the boundaries of CETYS collaborations, while also increasing Baja California\u2019s reach.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are very appreciative of the openness and trust that they have had in Southern California, as well as in Baja California, to serve this constituency, \u201d Le\u00f3n Garc\u00eda said. \u201cWe hope that by virtue of the Cali-Baja initiatives, we can definitely enrich our contribution as well as position the region and enrich the region in its uniqueness and standing worldwide.\u201d<\/p>\n

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