In September 2007, Secretary General of the Universidad Autónoma de Tamaulipas (UAT) Olga Hernández Limón (left) and Executive Director of LASPAU Ned Strong signed an agreement for a specialized leadership program and seminar for UAT faculty. The signing took place at the Leadership Workshop for Tamaulipas, a seminar designed for UAT by LASPAU through the Instituto Internacional para el Desarrollo de la Innovación Académica (IDIA). In December 2007, UAT academic and administrative leaders, including UAT President José Ma. Leal Gutiérrez, will convene in Cambridge for a seminar on leadership in education.

The Leadership Workshop for Tamaulipas, held September 21 and 22 in Ciudad Victoria, México, was designed to strengthen the integration of the UAT with the Mexican private and governmental sectors by providing a mechanism to develop concrete proposals for collaboration. Fifty-five representatives from the private, academic, and government sectors were grouped into teams to generate proposal ideas, which were then presented to the university authorities as a summary of results.

Both the workshop and the December seminar on leadership in education utilize the IDIA teaching and learning strategies. The seminar will be held in December on the Harvard University for 30 UAT academic deans and top-level administrators. The end goal is a sustainable culture of teaching excellence and effective learning at the University.