International Association of Universities

International Higher Education Collaboration Empowering Societies in an Era of Transformation CONAHEC’s 14th North American Higher Education Conference; Puebla, Mexico, 12-14 October 2011. This Conference will focus on how higher education institutions can better pool their strengths and resources and improve international collaboration in order to empower societies to be prepared for future challenges. While higher education institutions have been at the cutting edge of many technological developments, and have served as spaces for our communities to grow and develop, the road ahead is full of challenges if we are to create fairer, more equitable and more prosperous communities which together are prepared for anything the future holds. This conference will incorporate among its themes one which focuses on how to collaborate with higher education institutions and organizations in the Latin American and Caribbean region.

Global Higher Education: Reflection on the Past, Designing Sustainable Futures University Sains Malaysia (USM), Penang, Malaysia, 13-15 December 2011. This Forum is organized jointly by the Ministry of Higher Education Malaysia, USM and the World Futures Studies Federation and supported amongst others by the IAU. GHEF is organized every two years since 20O7. GHEF2011 will revisit the issues, developments and challenges in higher education since the past two Forums and deliberate on the future of higher education.