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Hispanic Educational Telecommunications Systems

HETS. Promoting the access of Hispanics to higher education and training opportunities through educational telecommunications and distance learning.

HETS News

Student Support and Retention Roundtable in Ponce, Puerto Rico
May-07-2008

HETS January 2008 Board Meeting
Feb-12-2008

HETS Joins Forces with APAD
Nov-06-2007

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Upcoming Events

Talleres de capacitación profesional para el personal que trabaja con las iniciativas de e-learning

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Diplomado en Docencia Virtual (UNAB)
Currently scheduled Spanish session: February 26, 2007
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Certificación en Educación a Distancia (SUAGM)
Currently scheduled Spanish session: March 12, 2007
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Spring Sessions of the Teaching Online in Higher Education workshop
Currently scheduled English session: January 29, 2007 - March 9, 2007 & March 5, 2007 – April 20, 2007
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Student Support and Retention Roundtable in Ponce, Puerto Rico

Last April 18, 2008, the HETS Consortium celebrated its Student Support Roundtable Discussion. This event, which took place at the Pontifical Catholic University of Puerto Rico, included the participation of teams from member institutions interested in developing institutional initiatives to support student retention and success through technology. The general purpose of this roundtable session was to assess, describe, and document existing efforts to strengthen the area of student support services among HETS member institutions.

Prof. Manuel Cordero, Associate Vice-president for Retention at Ana G. Méndez university System, was the main speaker of this event. Professor Cordero, who has 25 years....

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HETS Membership

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Our Member Institutions

More than 20 colleges and universities constitute HETS. Corporate members from the United States, Puerto Rico, and Latin America, nonprofit organizations related to technology and education, as well as individuals, have joined this vast and varied group of institutions. HETS has also opened its doors to high schools interested in taking advantage of technology to successfully guide their students towards a university career.

HETS started in 1993 as a small group of institutions interested in sharing courses at a distance, since then, it has grown to be a hub where a continuously increasing number of colleges, universities, corporations, and other organizations that collaborate and network in different scenarios and from different perspectives. Technology is the link that gathers of all them together in this collaborative web.

Its inception was encouraged and directed by a group of seven American and Puerto Rican universities and professional technical colleges that joined together to form this non-profit organization. The original seven founding members included the Ana G. Mendez University System, Lehman College, Hostos Community College, University of New Mexico, University of Puerto Rico, University of Texas-Brownsville, and University of Texas-Pan Am.

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