ABSTRACT
Since the 1970s, the National Council for Science and Technology (CONACYT)—the governing body in Mexico for science and technology-has administered overseas scholarship programs and, beginning in the 1980s, programs for attracting international academics. Due to the success of the mechanisms established by such government agencies, few higher education institutions designed their own strategies for linking their faculty recruitment policies with institutional development priorities. Exceptions to this rule include the Colegio de México (COLMEX), as a result of the particular manner of its foundation and because if its nature as an institution devoted to research, as well as the National Autonomous University of Mexico’s (UNAM) Institute of Geophysics (IGP), due both to its position in a traditionally internationalized discipline and its connection to UNAM. This institution, the largest and most prestigious in the country, has always acted as a magnet among the international academics settled in the country.
