Former rector of INTEC is appointed President of COLAM

Santo Domingo.- Executives from the Organization of Inter-American Universities (OUI) appointed Dr. Altagracia López, president of the Superior Council of Colleges of the Americas (COLAM), during its XII Meeting, held at the Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja, Ecuador.

COLAM is the highest collegiate body of the OUI, an organization founded in 1980 to respond to the need to extend relations, improve information and promote academic cooperation among Higher Education Institutions in the Americas. The IOHE is the only university organization that covers the entire American continent.

López, director of INTEC in the 2002-2005 period, will have the opportunity during the next two years to define policies and interact with the academic networks of the different countries of the Americas and the Caribbean that make up this organization.

"The fact of representing not only the Dominican Republic but the entire region of the Caribbean from this position, is one of the greatest challenges that I have been involved in throughout my career. From here I hope to achieve many of the goals set in the direction of international higher education, opening us to the opportunity of collective and network work"He said.

The former rector of the INTEC expressed the need for reinforcements that nowadays present many of the addresses of higher education entities, and she undertook the task of contributing to the new university transformations.

Currently Altagracia López serves as director of the Center for Innovation in Higher Education (CINNES) of INTEC.