National Autonomous University of Mexico
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The National Autonomous University of Mexico ( Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, UNAM short ) is one of the oldest and largest universities in the Americas. It is named after the annual " World University Ranking " by the British consulting firm QA for 2010 The Best Latin American university, but in sizes ranging world on the 222 square.
- 3.1 Academia de San Carlos
History
Foundation
On September 21, 1551 later King Philip II presented on behalf of his father Charles V of the Memorandum for the Real y Pontificia Universidad de México. On January 25, 1553 it was inaugurated by the Viceroy of New Spain Luis de Velasco, located on Calle de San Ildefonso in the Centro Historico ( " Historical Center " ) from Mexico City. The University was dissolved in 1865 by Mexican Emperor Maximilian.
In spring 1910, the University was re-established on the initiative of Justo Sierra as the Universidad Nacional de México and opened on September 22, 1910 by President Porfirio Díaz. After the deprivation of years of the Revolution, the university was able to solidify as an institution since 1920. However, the full autonomy won the University after the first student and professor strike her career on 26 August 1929. More strikes followed in 1936 and 1944.
1954 based students and teachers the new " university city " Ciudad Universitaria in the south of Mexico City.
Social movements
1968, the UNAM was in the midst of student protests, which culminated in the massacre of Tlatelolco ( Matanza de Tlatelolco ) in the Plaza de las Tres Culturas. In the massacre, for which the then Interior Minister Luis Echeverría Álvarez and later President ( 1970-76 ) must answer charges of genocide since June 30, 2006, died hundreds of students. It marked a turning point in the history of Mexico.
The UNAM experienced numerous other student uprisings, including the years 1987 and 1999. Those two were the response to the government's attempt to set the public and gratuitous University of character. The strike against neoliberal education policy in 1999 went on for nine months and had complete paralysis of university operation result.
Student body
Recording conditions:
- High School ( Bachillerato ) with a minimum average score of "7" ( Mexican grading system goes from 0 to 10, with the lowest passing grade is 6 )
- Entrance examination ( due to limited recording places)
Divisions
Academia de San Carlos
The Escuela Nacional de Artes Plásticas ( ENAP ) and the Escuela Nacional de Arquitectura (ENA ), departments of art and architecture, went in 1929, seen from the Academia de San Carlos.
Famous lecturers
See also Category: High School Teacher (National Autonomous University of Mexico )
- Rosario Castellanos, writer
- Heinz Dieterich, social scientists, consultants of Hugo Chávez (Venezuela )
- Erich Fromm, Psychology ( 1950)
- Pablo González Casanova, Sociology (1966 - 1984)
- Raquel Sosa Elizaga, history
- Hans -Jürgen Zubrod, Department of Applied Molecular Biology
- Rodrigo Jokisch, sociologist
Awards
The ensemble of buildings, sports facilities and open spaces of the Ciudad Universitaria was included in the list of World Heritage by UNESCO in 2007.
2009, the University of the Spanish Prince of Asturias Prize in communication and human sciences division was awarded. The reason given was that the University was in its hundred year history, an academic and educational model for many generations of students have been enriched and the Ibero-American sphere with the most important intellectuals and scientists. You 've also famous post-war Spain exiles generously granted refuge, promoted powerful currents of humanistic, liberal and democratic thought in America and is expanding its significant influence by creating a variety of institutions that enrich the academic world and connect with the society they serve.