“Please consider this wonderful and unique academic program that enables you to acquire the foundations for inquiry, creativity, and dialogue, and pursue your own lifelong learning path. We are pleased to encourage you to make the best of your own learning process.”
Ronald Flores, Michael Polanyi College Director
“Please consider this wonderful and unique academic program that enables you to acquire the foundations for inquiry, creativity, and dialogue, and pursue your own lifelong learning path. We are pleased to encourage you to make the best of your own learning process.”
Ronald Flores, Michael Polanyi College Director
Students life
Our MPCommunity
The MPCers
MPCers truly care about their futures and the learning they’ll need to create it. MPCers aren’t afraid to question and they always think for themselves. MPCers rely on themselves and try to be logically consistent. MPCers are thinkers and doers, dreamers and creators, artists and entrepreneurs. They are passionate human beings that love what they do and are always improving.
Learning by doing
Experiential learning is an important part of our program and an enriching experience for our MPCers. This can include projects, experiments, guided inquiry in the form of dialogues and debates, poetry nights, guest speakers, film screenings, field trips (museums, concerts, theatre, etc.), workshops that target personal development skills (such as self-management, goal-setting, and introspection), learning how to learn, and the art of collaboration.
Cocreation and coworking
Our space is designed to encourage cocreation and coworking based on collaboration during all the phases of the program. The MPC is the only faculty with its own space where all the creativity and magic that characterizes our MPC happens.
Alumni
MPChamps
Javier Parellada Centeno
Javier (class of ՚15 with a concentration in Film and Education) was a cofounder of UFM’s School of Film and Visual Media, project manager at p1440, and a director of Acton School of Business at UFM Madrid. He attributes his key formal education to unique learning experiences such as his time in MPC’s first cohort, and also the first cohort of Jordan B. Peterson fellows at the Acton School of Business in Austin, Texas, and Acton MBA at UFM. His experience is mainly in the instructional design and the launch of educational experiences using the Socratic method, case studies, and digital technologies to enhance learning. Javier believes that meaningful learning only happens once students decide to take responsibility for their learning and seek to contribute to their educational community.
Diego Rivera
Diego graduated from MPC in the pioneer class and is currently an Acton MBA student. He is the founder and CEO of Qüilo, an all-in-one human capital platform for companies in Latin America, and has financing from Draper Associates and IDB Lab.
Sheidy Li
Sheidy is passionate about topics related to personal growth, human flourishing, learning, finance, and innovation. For three years, she worked in education, supporting teachers to improve the design and delivery of their courses. Later, she got a master’s in Finance, where she was able to have a look at the corporate world. Currently, she works at Progreso X, Cementos Progreso’s corporate accelerator, creating ways to foster collaboration between start-ups and the company. She loves discovering new places and preparing desserts.
Statistics
50
%
of MPCers have started their own business
50
%
of MPCers have started their own business
47
%
of MPCers have worked abroad
47
%
of MPCers have worked abroad
33
%
of MPCers have a master's degree
33
%
of MPCers have a master's degree
Our Leaders
Ronald Flores
Director
Ronald Flores studied Education at Universidad del Valle de Guatemala and a master’s degree in Comparative Literature at the University of Texas at Austin. He was a Fulbright fellow. Flores is the author of several novels, essays, and other publications, including Final Silence and Los señores de Xiblablá. Flores is also a two-time Ironman Texas 140.6 finisher.
Stephannie Ruiz
Projects coordinator and academic coordinator
Stephannie Ruiz is the Educational Projects coordinator and academic coordinator of Michael Polanyi College at Universidad Francisco Marroquín. She has a master’s degree in Strategic Design and Innovation, and a bachelor’s degree in Industrial Design.
Ideas
Food for thought
Personal Knowledge
This section is to explore the different paths chosen by the independent learners at MPC, to discover their opinions on a myriad of topics, to share views, and get to know the MPC better.
UFM Talk by MPC – How to choose your university career?
This panel of experts explored the most useful factors for students and parents to consider when choosing a college degree. It is an informative, instructional, and orientation talk for the general public, intended to help those who are about to decide on their university future.MPCafé – What is Mind?
The MPCafé is where our bookcampers get to use their rhetorical arsenal: it is a five-minute presentation to provide a creative answer to the meta question being studied. In this case, the meta question was “What is mind?”.Documentary film – I Am
What should I study? A question that can open up a whole new world of possibilities. There is no one way to learn, so a group of curious students open up to tell their own experience about a different form of education. One that forces them out of their comfort zone and makes them develop…
FAQ
Frequent questions
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