President John Hennessy will join U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings and a band of other education leaders on an expedition to Chile and Brazil from Aug. 18-24. The trip aims to build educational partnerships and support study abroad.

The trip was sparked by the 2006 U.S. University Presidents Summit on International Education. Similar delegations of university presidents have visited India and Asia.

Hennessy will be joined on the upcoming expedition by the heads of seven other colleges and universities across the country, including the University of Maryland University College, Iowa State University, University of Nebraska, Louisiana State University, Miami Dade College, Washington University in St. Louis and UC-Santa Barbara