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When Kiel Domingo, a Business
Administration major at Mapúa Malayan Colleges Laguna (Mapúa MCL) first signed up to join this summer’s Sustainability and
Innovation Summer Experience at Arizona State University (ASU), the most
innovative university in the United States, he was curious to “see what it’s
all about.”
The second annual ASU
Sustainability and Innovation Summer Experience program held in June of 2023
brought together a diverse group of students from ASU-Cintana
Alliance partner institutions around the globe to empower them to
become catalysts for change in their communities and equip them with the
knowledge and skills to tackle global challenges.
Over the course of two weeks, Kiel
and a group of 20+ other students engaged in diverse activities designed to
foster their personal and academic growth. They attended classes, lectures, and
workshops led by community entrepreneurs and ASU experts from various colleges
and schools including the School of Sustainability and the School for the
Future of Innovation in Society within the ASU College of Global
Futures, Makerspace in the Hayden Library, and the Thunderbird
School of Global Management.
Living the American Student Life
Living in Arizona, Domingo got to
see and live for himself an America he had only seen and heard on TV. “In terms
of actually watching stuff and then experiencing it, America is a sprawling,
car-centric land,” he said.
“And that people thought I was local
for the most part; maybe it’s my accent. I grew up having English as my first
and primary language. But ours is a
mixed household, so we grew up with Filipino and Cebuano, too,” Domingo
explained.
He was paired with a Mexican
classmate, and there was “no language barrier; we got along pretty well. We figured out that Tagalog has some Spanish,
so I picked up on what he was saying most of the time when he spoke Spanish to
his family in France. So interesting to find out that we have much more in
common than we first thought.”
The ASU Sustainability and
Innovation Summer Experience offered him two weeks filled with interactive
workshops, inspirational lectures, hands-on activities, and immersive
experiences focused on building sustainable and innovative solutions for the
world’s toughest challenges.
“The program did help with my
current studies, finding out that sustainability is the key to any business
future,” Domingo said. “Many people are
starting to think about the future, about sustainability in the products they
buy, the services they get. And so, I
think that sustainability is crucial in managing businesses.”
Warming up to the subject, Domingo
continues. “I found out that sustainability requires innovation. That’s pretty
much the heart of it because many ways humanity can become sustainable are
unknown. We are the people that are used
to researching all the time on how to do this better and to manage what we have
properly.”
The summer stint gave Domingo the
needed skills to excel in the future. Beyond experiences that focused on
solutions-based learning about innovative and entrepreneurial thinking and
sustainability for the 21st century, Domingo also learned new facets from
different cultures of other international students like himself, getting the
hang of commuting inside and outside of the sprawling campus grounds and, more
importantly, enhancing intercultural competence, global awareness and
developing a global network with fellow program participants.
Advice for Fellow
Students
Domingo’s main takeaway from the
entire experience?
“If you have the knack of getting
people to work together for the common good, take pride in accomplishing
something, learning something new, then consider being part of the ASU
experience in Mapúa MCL. Grab all the opportunities to broaden your life experience!”
he said.
Domingo is just one of the latest Mapúa students whose international experience underscores the
university’s decision to join
the ASU-Cintana Alliance, a global network of innovative universities in the
US, Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America. The network is working
together to build and scale high-quality academic programs that respond to the
member country's economic and social needs.
Mapúa MCL is in
collaboration with ASU for the business and health sciences programs. This
collaboration leverages ASU's innovation and global impact expertise to prepare
globally competitive graduates by forging a collaboration grounded on three
core pillars—global immersion, real-world experiential learning, and digital
mastery.
For more details, visit the
university’s site https://mcl.edu.ph/
and learn more about how a Mapúan education can further boost your learning experience.
About iPeople. iPeople, inc. (PSE: IPO) is one of the leading
education groups in the country, with approximately 60,000 students. It owns
seven educational institutions which together offer quality education to
students across all income segments, with campuses in Metro Manila, Calabarzon,
Bicol, the Visayas and Mindanao. Its schools include Malayan Education System,
Inc. (Operating under the name of Mapúa University), one of the country’s
leading engineering and technical universities, and its subsidiaries, Mapúa Malayan
Colleges Laguna, Mapúa Malayan Colleges Mindanao in Davao, and Malayan High
School of Science in Manila. Its schools also include the University of Nueva
Caceres, the oldest and largest private university in Bicol, National Teachers
College, the country’s pioneer private teacher training tertiary education
institution, and APEC Schools, the country’s largest chain of private
stand-alone high schools in the country. Learn more about iPeople at https://hoi.com.ph/
About Mapúa Malayan Colleges Laguna. Mapúa MCL is located in Cabuyao, Laguna, and offered its
first programs in 2007. One of the best board exam performing private schools
in Calabarzon, Mapúa MCL is the youngest ever school to attain CHED Autonomous
Status in the country. It has also earned a 3-star overall rating from the
UK-based Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) Star Rating System, one of the world’s
leading higher education rating systems. It is also the first ISO 21001:2018 -
EOMS Certified School in Calabarzon. With over 6,000 students, it offers
programs in engineering, computer science, IT, multimedia arts, business,
accountancy, hotel & restaurant management, health sciences, as well as
senior high school. Mapúa MCL also began offering its first post-graduate
degree, the Master of Science in Shipping Business in partnership with the
Business College of Athens, last 2022. Learn more about Mapúa Malayan Colleges
Laguna at https://www.mcl.edu.ph/
About Arizona State University. Arizona State University has developed a new model for
the American Research University, creating an institution that is committed to
access, excellence, and impact. ASU has been ranked as #1 in the US for
innovation for 8 consecutive years by US News and Report, the leading U.S.
universities ranking system. ASU is also ranked in the Top 100 in the world for
academic reputation by 2023, and #1 Public University in the U.S. chosen
by international students, according to the
Institute of International Education Open Doors Report 2022. Learn more about Arizona State University at https://www.asu.edu/.
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