La Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile ha sido fundada por la Iglesia, y permanece mediante el esfuerzo de Pastores y laicos como una de las variadas formas con que cumple su misión de anunciar el Evangelio a todos los hombres y en todos los ambientes. Siendo un instrumento del Pueblo de Dios, la Universidad reconoce su íntima vinculación con él, y su deber de participar, en la mayor medida que le sea posible y dentro de sus finalidades específicas, en la obra misionera de la Iglesia. 2. La Universidad profesa, en consecuencia, una fidelidad activa y diligente al magisterio de los Pastores de la Iglesia, y en particular al del Romano Pontífice, Sucesor del Apóstol San Pedro, Cabeza visible de la Unidad Católica. Por consiguiente, es necesario que tanto los cuerpos normativos que rigen la Universidad, como sus grandes líneas de acción, sean coherentes con el Magisterio eclesiástico, y que las personas llamadas a desempeñar su alta dirección sean católicas. La comunión de la Universidad Católica con la Iglesia no podría romperse, ni podrían desconocerse sus consecuencias, sin atentar contra lo más esencial de esta Casa de Estudios. 3. La Universidad requiere fundamentalmente para el cumplimiento de su misión del testimonio de la fe de sus académicos y de sus demás miembros, pero no excluye de su seno a quienes no participan de la fe de la Iglesia, y está obligada al más delicado respeto de sus conciencias. Con todo, la catolicidad institucional de ella exige de los miembros de la comunidad universitaria que estén en esta situación, una necesaria actitud de respeto y apertura hacia los principios que informan a la Universidad y hacia la misión que ella ha recibido de la Iglesia. Quien combatiere esos principios no puede formar parte de esta Universidad.
UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA
Uplifting the Whole People
The University of Alberta has had the vision to be one of the world’s great universities for the public good since its inception. This university is dedicated to the promise made by founding president Henry Marshall Tory that “… knowledge shall not be the concern of scholars alone. The uplifting of the whole people shall be its final goal.”
This vision endures as the university strives to improve the lives of people in Alberta, across Canada, and around the world.
Motto
The university motto, quaecumque vera, means “whatsoever things are true” and is taken from the Epistle of St. Paul to the Philippians, Chapter 4, Verse 8, in the Latin Vulgate version of the Bible.
Mission
Within a vibrant and supportive learning environment, the University of Alberta discovers, disseminates, and applies new knowledge through teaching and learning, research and creative activity, community involvement, and partnerships. The U of A gives a national and international voice to innovation in our province, taking a lead role in placing Canada at the global forefront.
Vision
To inspire the human spirit through outstanding achievements in learning, discovery, and citizenship in a creative community, building one of the world’s great universities for the public good.
Aboriginal Acknowledgement
The University of Alberta acknowledges the traditional territory on which we stand and thanks the diverse Indigenous peoples whose footsteps have marked this territory for centuries, such as Cree, Saulteaux, Blackfoot, Métis and Nakota Sioux.
Governance
The University of Alberta is a board-governed public institution whose board members include representatives of the public, staff, faculty, and students, including representatives of the Students’ Union and the Graduate Students’ Association.
Board of Governors’ Chair: Michael Phair
Senate
The senate is an independent advisory body of community leaders that plays a critical role in linking with the community and enhancing the reputation of the university. The senate also selects honorary degree recipients.
UNIVERSIDAD FEDERAL DE PARAIBA
UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE
The University of Lethbridge fosters an environment that meets the educational and personal needs of students through excellent teaching, exposure to research, interaction with professors and instructors, academic advising, counseling, and cultural, recreational and extracurricular programs.
We value and support many approaches to teaching and learning, and strive to be a leader in using teaching tools, techniques, and technologies to facilitate, ameliorate, and refine the educational experience.
UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DO RIO GRANDE DO SUL
The Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, located in Porto Alegre, capital of the state of Rio Grande do Sul, is a century-old institution, recognized nationally and internationally. She teaches courses in all areas of knowledge and at all levels, from elementary school to postgraduate.
The qualification of its faculty, composed mostly of masters and doctors, the permanent updating of the infrastructure of laboratories and libraries, the increase in student assistance, as well as the prioritization of its national and international insertion are policies in constant development.
Around 40 thousand people are in search of one of the most qualified teaching in the country. This, together with research, with recognized levels of excellence, and the extension, which provides diversified activities to the community, makes UFRGS reach high levels of evaluation.
UFRGS, as a public institution at the service of society and committed to the future and with a critical conscience, respects differences, prioritizes experimentation and, above all, reaffirms its commitment to education and the production of knowledge, inspired by the ideals of freedom and solidarity.
HEC MONTREAL
Quebec business leaders founded HEC Montréal at the turn of the 20th century to help francophones assume the levers of business and economic power in their own province. Since then, HEC Montréal has asserted its leadership as a dynamic player in its own community, where it remains deeply rooted, as well as on the world stage. Drawing on a remarkable pool of world-class teachers and researchers — experts in every field of management — the School plays a key role in advancing society through groundbreaking teaching that integrates innovative content and methods at all levels; pioneering research that continuously pushes the boundaries of management science; and fruitful partnerships that enable the transfer of new knowledge and fresh perspectives. As testimony to its excellence, HEC Montréal was the ¬first business school in North America to be awarded the three most prestigious international accreditations in its field.
MISSION
Francophone, community-based, open to the world, HEC Montréal, a world-class university in management, contributes to the growth of society by exercising leadership in all its fields of activity: teaching at all levels. cycles, research and community services.
VISION
HEC Montréal intends to play a leading role in all spheres of activity, with a focus on:
• the training of a management succession experienced in the new requirements of the business world;
• the international positioning of the institution and the multiplication of its networks of influence and collaboration;
• the production of cutting-edge research and its transfer to organizations.
UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DE PERNAMBUCO
The Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE) is one of the best universities in the country, teaching (undergraduate and graduate) and research. At the international level, the institution is among the world’s top 1000 and the 14th best in the country, according to The Word University Ranckings 2018.
The UFPE also excels in national assessments that take into account, for undergraduate, student performance indices in the National Student Performance Examination (Enade), the structure of institutions and the investment in teachers and courses, now General Index of Courses (IGC), and the titling and scientific production of post-graduate teachers – by the Coordination of Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (Capes), these two evaluations of the MEC.
In recent years, as part of programs to expand the teaching of the Federal Government, the University expanded its operations and today has three campuses, located in Recife, in Vitória de Santo Antão and in Caruaru
Between 2005 and 2016, more than 2,500 places were created in undergraduate courses. During this period, more than 30 courses were implemented, among them Cinema, Archeology, Museology, Dance, Information Systems, Materials Engineering, Energy Engineering and Naval Engineering. The growth is mainly due to two programs of the Ministry of Education: the Interiorization of Higher Education and the Support to Restructuring and Expansion Plans of the Federal Universities (Reuni).
Rector
Rector – Anísio Brasileiro de Freitas Dourado
Vice-Dean – Florisbela de Arruda Câmara and Siqueira Campos
Mission
Promote an adequate environment for the development of people and the construction of knowledge and skills that contribute to the sustainability of society, through teaching, research, extension and management.
Infrastructure
The UFPE brings together more than 40 thousand people, including professors, technical-administrative staff and undergraduate and graduate students, distributed in three campuses: Recife, Caruaru and Vitória de Santo Antão.
In Campus Recife, there are more than 40 buildings, including the Rectory, nine Academic Centers, eight Supplementary Organs, Convention Center, Acoustic Shell, University Club, Nursery, Student Houses for Men and Women and the University Restaurant.
Off campus, in Recife, there are the Legal Sciences Center, the Television and University Radios Nucleus, the Benfica Cultural Center, the Medicine Memorial and the Nucleus of Continuing Education. In the Interior, there are the Agreste Academic Center in Caruaru, and the Academic Center of Vitória de Santo Antão, located in the Zona Norte Mata.
UNIVERSITY OF MONTREAL
The Université de Montréal is one of the world’s leading research universities.
UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL RURAL DO RIO DE JANEIRO
The current denomination – Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro – came with Law 4.759, of 1965. The UFRRJ, since 1968 an autonomous entity, auxiliary and decentralized of the public administration, began to act with a more flexible structure to accompany the university reform that was implanted in the country. With the approval of its statute, in 1970, the University expanded the areas of teaching, research and extension. In 1972, he began the system of courses in credit system.
The University’s general objectives are: to generate, systematize, socialize and apply the scientific, technological, philosophical and artistic knowledge through teaching, research and inseparably linked, expanding and deepening the professional practice, critical reflection, and enhancing peace and quality of life.
UFRRJ maintains the character of a public, free, secular university, of quality and socially referenced, contributing to the scientific, technological, artistic and cultural development of the Country and to the formulation of public and social policies, aiming at the training of professionals-citizens with autonomy for continuous learning, socially referenced to the world of work and capable of acting in the construction of social justice and democracy, with the following specific objectives: I – generate and propagate scientific, technological and cultural knowledge; II – to train, diploma and provide initial and continuous training in the different areas of knowledge, aiming at the exercise of professional activities and participation in the development of society; III – to stimulate the development of science, creation and critical and reflexive thinking; IV – to contribute to the process of regional and national development, carrying out the systematic study of their problems and the formation of scientific and technical personnel in terms of their needs; V – promote extension, open to the participation of the population, aiming at the socialization of the achievements and benefits, resulting from the cultural creation and the scientific and technological research generated in the Institution; VI – to promote education face-to-face, at a distance or in any other modality, provided that they are approved by the competent authorities; VII – to educate for the promotion of social and environmental development; VIII – to cultivate the ethical principles in the attainment of its objectives; IX – maintain a broad and diversified exchange of knowledge with society; X – promote support for public education in all its precepts and prerogatives.
MCGILL UNIVERSITY
McGill University is one of Canada’s best-known institutions of higher learning and one of the leading universities in the world. With students coming to McGill from some 150 countries, our student body is the most internationally diverse of any research-intensive university in the country. McGill was founded in 1821 thanks to a generous bequest by James McGill, and since then, we’ve grown from a small college to a bustling university with two campuses, 10 faculties, some 300 programs of study, and 40,000 students. The University also partners with four affiliated teaching hospitals to graduate over 1,000 health care professionals each year.
MISSION
The mission of McGill University is the advancement of learning and the creation and dissemination of knowledge, by offering the best possible education, by carrying out research and scholarly activities judged to be excellent by the highest international standards, and by providing service to society.
PRINCIPLES
In fulfilling its mission, McGill University embraces the principles of academic freedom,integrity, responsibility, equity, and inclusiveness.