Well...I am me, and he (she) is them. Not the same. My wife went to the oldest University in the Americas for her degree, UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO (UNAM), founded in 1551, and then to one of the best colleges in this hemisphere for her masters, Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education. On November 2008, its graduate business school became one of the 34 business schools in the world to hold simultaneous accreditation of its programs by the AACSB of the United States, the Association of MBAs of the United Kingdom and the European Quality Improvement System (EQUIS) while the Institute became the first Latin American university in history to receive full-accreditation on some of its engineering programs by ABET (as opposed to the traditional substantially-equivalent designation given to most schools outside the United States). Funny that the US does not recognize her masters degree....except to teach little kids in ESL classes as an equivalent of a community college degree...and would require her to take more classes here prior to full "certification", when others of her caliber with equivalent credentials from low level Universities here are teaching in the same Universities here. But then, again that is the cultural bias I speak of often, that I know of from personal (not internet, print or "I heard" crap) experience. It is degrading to her, and I experience it as her husband and share in her pain.
I bet koan would get a laugh out of that remark, as many times as we butted heads here! |
