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Evelyn (Santiago) Rosario, senior counselor in the Educational Opportunity Program office and former director of the Puerto Rico study-abroad program, co-presented "Institutional Innovations and Global Learning for Students and Faculty: 2013 Confucius Institute Faculty Seminar Program, China in the 21st Century, and the Puerto Rico Program (1993–2012) at Buffalo State" at the 2014 National Symposium of New York University’s Faculty Resource Network," held in San Juan, Puerto Rico, November 21 and 22. The conference was titled “The Global Imperative for Higher Education.”

Rosario's presentation team members were Weihua Niu, director or the Confucius Institute and professor of psychology at Pace University; Adelia Williams, professor of modern languages and cultures and associate provost for academic affairs at Pace University; and Mayra Vélez-Serrano, assistant professor at the University of Puerto Rico (and former faculty member at Buffalo State).

More than 400 participants from private and public institutions of higher education in the United States and Puerto Rico attended the conference. The opening session on Friday included Alejandro García Padilla, governor of Puerto Rico; Sila Calderón, former governor of Puerto Rico; John Sexton, president of NYU; Pedro Noguera, professor of education at NYU; Uroyoán Walker-Ramos, president of the University of Puerto Rico; Gilberto Marxuach Torrós, president of the University of the Sacred Heart in San Juan; and José Jaime Rivera, former president of the University of the Sacred Heart.