Talks and workshops were held at the 2025 National Faculty Summit, which also saw the giving of the David Noel Ramírez Padilla Inspiring Teacher Award.
The impact that all teachers can make on their students has to with talent, transformation, and transcendence.
During the 2025 National Faculty Summit (RNP 2025 for its initials in Spanish), David Garza, Executive President of the Tecnológico de Monterrey Education Group, shared these three concepts about the effect that teachers have on their students.
“The way in which vocation is appreciated, what a teacher does, is different. For us, our best gift has to do with that impact we have on our students, above all when they graduate,” he said.
He also explained each of the 3 Ts that he shared during the speech he gave at the Luis Elizondo Auditorium on Monterrey campus.
- Talent: Fostering and developing students’ skills
- Transformation: Contributing to students’ personal and professional growth
- Transcendence: Making a lasting impact on society through education
He said that academic excellence is not only measured by immediate results but also by the legacy left by teachers and the influence they have on their students’ lives.
Garza remarked that achieving the goal of boosting international prestige to attract high-level academic talent necessitated advancement in the area of academic excellence.
“What we’re saying is that we’ve endowed each institution with its own purpose. In the case of Tecnológico de Monterrey, we want to enhance our global prestige to attract the best talent.
“Part of the effort toward achieving this goal is about continuing to improve upon our academic excellence.”
“Our best gift has to do with that impact we have on our students.” - David Garza, Executive President of the Tecnológico de Monterrey Education Group
Academic excellence: The path taken by Tec de Monterrey faculty
Juan Pablo Murra, Rector of Tec de Monterrey, shared some observations on academic excellence with teachers.
The first observation he shared concerned the meaning of academic quality, which he defined as: “a set of resources and strategies which ensure that the teaching-learning process achieves high standards.”
He emphasized how this includes credentials, educational processes, and measurable results that are aligned with certain standards established by the institution.
However, he defined academic excellence as: “a systemic experience and an institutional aspiration to make an extraordinary impact.”
“Excellence is not only about fleeting accomplishments but also about relentlessly striving for external recognition and meaningful influence on the academic community and beyond,” said the rector.
What’s more, he explained that achieving academic excellence required transforming both the culture and management processes.
“This should first drive us to alter our culture, our way of being, but also to make gradual changes to our processes for management, measurement, indicators, recognition, and training.
“We have to be very mindful of the fact that consistency is the first thing our students are going to demand of us,” he said.
Finally, the rector of Tec de Monterrey urged teachers to keep carrying the torch for the role of education and its future, to teach by example through generosity and kindness.
Sharing faculty progress at RNP 2025
Roberto Iñiguez Flores, the Tec’s Vice Rector of Academic Affairs and Faculty, shared faculty progress and some important data with the teaching community when speaking at RNP 2025.
“Forty percent of Tec faculty have received training on using and understanding Artificial Intelligence (AI) in order to apply it to both the theory and practice of teaching.
“During this academic cycle, 237 professors achieved classification, 154 as assistant professors, 71 as associate professors, and 12 as full professors. Many congratulations to all those colleagues who made progress on their classifications,” he said.
He mentioned that one of the initiatives presented is a wellbeing and development model to promote teachers’ integrated development and growth.
“This development model is based on active learning principles and strengthening teaching skills, chiefly in five areas: Teaching excellence, educational innovation, professional development, lifelong learning, and teaching wellbeing,” he concluded.
During the four days of the RNP, the teaching community took part in workshops, discussions, and exercises, as well as using the opportunity to catch up and network with each other.
“We have to be very mindful of the fact that consistency is the first thing our students are going to demand of us.” - Juan Pablo Murra, Rector of Tec de Monterrey
David Noel Ramírez Padilla Inspiring Teacher Awards
This is the first year that the award bears tribute to the name of Rector Emeritus David Noel, who passed away last January.
“For ten years, we’ve had the opportunity to acknowledge 273 undergraduate and graduate professors, who have inspired our students every day to be better and convinced that they can transform their surroundings
“Today, 34 inspiring teachers will receive this year’s award (...) who continue to show us that educating is an act of generosity, hope, and love for the future,” said Rector Murra.
On this occasion, the winners of the David Noel Ramírez Padilla Inspiring Teacher Award at national level were:
1. Lilian Salazar Díaz (School of Architecture, Art, and Design) from Mexico City campus
Salazar’s most outstanding accomplishments included her participation in the team of professors who designed a project to experiment on assessment and feedback using AI, and leadership at architecture conferences, to name but two.
2. David Alejandro Stelo Molina (School of Engineering and Sciences) from Monterrey campus
This award winner has collaborated on improving the stability, safety, reliability, and efficiency of controlled processes with PEMEX and the mechanics and mechatronics area of the Metropolitan Autonomous University.
3. Jorge Cruz Ángeles (School of Engineering and Sciences) from Monterrey campus
This professor has created digital platforms for science communication, a YouTube channel, and a website with the goal of fostering knowledge and the ethical use of artificial intelligence, among other accomplishments.
4. Griselda Esthela Oyervides Ramírez (School of Engineering and Sciences) from Monterrey campus
Professor Oyervides Ramírez has developed collaboration projects, one of these being with the University of La Rioja and the University of Salamanca to fabricate products that assist multiple sclerosis patients.
The winners from PrepaTec were:
- Gabriela Garza González from PrepaTec Metepec
- Miriam Iliana Navarrete Bear from PrepaTec Tampico
- Octavio Daniel Benítez Franco from PrepaTec Mexico City
It is important to note that 34 awards in total were given at campus level.
2025 National Faculty Summit
The National Faculty Summit is the annual meeting of Tec de Monterrey’s Higher Education academic community, offering opportunities for learning, institutional alignment, roundtable discussions, and moments of celebration.
This year, it was held in a hybrid format, with two days of online talks and workshops and two days of face-to-face sessions at the Monterrey campus with the theme From our Faculty: Building Bridges to the Future.
“It’s a year in which we’ve promoted key projects on our path to 2030 and our shared goal of attracting the most talented people to come and collaborate and study with us.
“They’re imagining and building a better world from within the Tec,” said Roberto Iñiguez Flores, Executive Vice Rector of Academic Affairs and Faculty at the Tec.
From July 1 to 4, teachers participated in exchanging best practices and activities for strengthening faculty development and wellbeing.
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