{"id":31892,"date":"2016-04-05T11:35:00","date_gmt":"2016-04-05T16:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/?p=31892"},"modified":"2023-05-10T16:04:51","modified_gmt":"2023-05-10T21:04:51","slug":"uwm-faculty-member-named-ambassador-for-mexican-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/uwm-faculty-member-named-ambassador-for-mexican-state\/","title":{"rendered":"UWM faculty member named ambassador for Mexican state"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gov. Miguel M\u00e1rquez of the State of Guanajuato in Mexico has appointed Javier Tapia, associate professor in the School of Education\u2019s Department of Educational Policy and Community Studies, as ambassador of Guanajuato to Wisconsin. The purpose of the appointment, Tapia explained, is to encourage his work in fostering collaboration between the two states and their universities.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_31893\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-31893\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-31893 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2016\/04\/TAPIA_b.jpg\" alt=\"School of Education Associate Professor Javier Tapia (UWM Photo\/\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-31893\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">School of Education Associate Professor Javier Tapia. (UWM Photo\/Troye Fox)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Mexico is becoming an emerging economy and Guanajuato is playing a key role in that growth, Tapia said. M\u00e1rquez recently met with Gov. Scott Walker, and the two governors agreed to foster a stronger relationship between the two states, including greater economic trade, partnerships and collaboration in education, health, and other areas of mutual benefit, Tapia said.<\/p>\n<p>Tapia has been active with a local group seeking to establish a Mexican consulate in Milwaukee. The Mexican government announced in January it would establish the consulate though a date has not been announced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gov. Miguel M\u00e1rquez of the State of Guanajuato in Mexico has appointed Javier Tapia, associate professor in the School of Education\u2019s Department of Educational Policy and Community Studies, as ambassador of Guanajuato to Wisconsin. The purpose of the appointment, Tapia explained, is to encourage his work in fostering collaboration between the two states and their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":835,"featured_media":31893,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","uwm_wg_additional_authors":[]},"categories":[174,200],"tags":[249],"section":[],"display_categories":[],"related-coverage":[],"uwmnews-feed":[347,148],"class_list":["post-31892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-news-in-brief","tag-community-engagement","uwmnews-feed-community-engagement-professions","uwmnews-feed-education"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.4 (Yoast SEO v27.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>UWM faculty member named ambassador for Mexican state<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Gov. 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