Academic collaboration networks as a solidarity internationalization strategy. The case of CUNorte at the University of Guadalajara (Mexico)

Abstract

This article examines the potential of the creation of academic collaboration networks as a strategy in the process of internationalization in a Regional Center of the University of Guadalajara: the University Center of the North, CUNorte. After an introduction to the subject and its subsequent contextualization, this text shows the effect of the implementation of academic collaboration networks and the process of reciprocity, as a strategy of solidarity internationalization. Also analyses the implications for higher education in a newly created university center and geographically located far from the metropolitan area. Next, it shows a description of the characteristics of the institution and its context, it specifies and details what the center defines as strategic alliances. That is, the institutional agreements with certain universities and countries that, according to certain characteristics, facilitate joint actions aimed at finding a solution to common problems. The case study concludes with the analysis of an internationalization model as an ideal reference for this University Center characterized by a very specific institutional specificity.