President Javier Miyares offered the keynote address at the World Trade Center Institute’s Embassy Night on October 2.
(UMUC) President Javier Miyares told a gathering of more than 300 diplomats and government and business leaders in Washington, D.C. on October 2.
“Thanks in large part to disruptive technologies, the Holy Grail of higher education— access, affordability, and quality—is finally and fully within our reach,” Miyares said.
Miyares served as keynote speaker for the World Trade Center Institute’s Embassy Night, which drew representatives from 31 embassies to the Ronald Reagan Building in downtown Washington, D.C. “American higher education—often described as the envy of the world—is now facing its own moment of disruption,” he said. “The digital revolution, big data, and learning science have
combined to turn evolution into revolution in higher education.” Citing his own life story, he said the Cuban Revolution was a disruptive force that led him to flee Cuba as a 14-year-old boy with no money and no connections. All he had, he said, “was a desire to learn and a willingness to change.” As he stood before them on Embassy Night as president
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