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24-627: As an autonomous university , UAM is a public agency of the Mexican government . It has five academic units located in Mexico City and Greater Mexico City : Azcapotzalco , in north, Iztapalapa , in east, Cuajimalpa , in west, Xochimilco , in south, and Lerma in State of Mexico .), The institution is among the top academic universities in Mexico . In 2019, it ranked first among both public and private institution,

48-497: A fourth in 647. His final location was achieved in 2014 on the grounds of "Scorpio", ancient land of the Zona Especial Forestal y de Repoblación Bosques Industriales La Venta , which had not been built by the lack of legal certainty and the opposition of local people to Ocotal forest development in the sale of Cuajimalpa . The university system has 5 units, with campuses located in different boroughs of Mexico City and in

72-468: A full-scale university after ten years due to the patronage of the business community which donated funds for building the campus and for guaranteeing loans as the university was being established. When the Mexican economy expanded during the 1940s to 1960s, Ibero-trained professionals who entered the private sector, many of the former leaders of the UNEC served on the university's board of trustees. Ibero had

96-746: A stationery shop, bank branches, and other university stores. Ibero-American University Tijuana ( Universidad Iberoamericana Tijuana ) in Playas de Tijuana, Tijuana , Mexico, was founded by the Jesuits in 1982. It is a part of the Mexican Jesuit University System. as one of the Universidad Iberoamericana Ciudad de México colleges. In 1982, Universidad Iberoamericana opened its campus in Tijuana at two sites, one rented and

120-731: Is a private, Catholic, Mexican higher education institution, sponsored by the Mexican province of the Society of Jesus ( Jesuit ). In 2009, the UIA received the SEP-ANUIES Prize as the best private university in Mexico. The Ibero's flagship campus is located in the Santa Fe district of Mexico City . Its main library, Biblioteca Francisco Xavier Clavigero , holds more than 400,000 books and journals and as of 2007

144-661: Is established since its creation three units, which are located in Iztapalapa , Azcapotzalco and Xochimilco , with the idea of promoting decentralization and allow the full development of each. Empirically, scientific research in Iztapalapa (UAM-I) Unit is located, the traditional careers such as civil engineering and architecture at the Azcapotzalco (UAM-A) unit and the area of health in the Xochimilco Unit (UAM -X). Subsequently, it

168-525: Is one of the largest university libraries in the country. It also has one of the largest law libraries in Mexico. Other institutions affiliated with, but independent from, Ibero in Mexico City are found in Guadalajara , León , Torreón , Puebla , Playas de Tijuana , and Jaltepec . Together, they form the Jesuit University System , a network of Jesuit-run private universities. The university

192-634: Is owned and administered by the Carmelite Sisters of St Teresa (CSST). It has control of its own budget and curriculum. It is consistently ranked among the highest universities in India. This article about a university or other higher education institution is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Universidad Iberoamericana The Ibero-American University ( Spanish : Universidad Iberoamericana ), also referred to by its acronym UIA but commonly known as Ibero or La Ibero ,

216-593: The National Association of Universities and Institutions of Higher Education (ANUIES), he presented a document to the President noting the need to establish a new university in the metropolitan area Mexico City , taking into consideration issues such as increasing student demand and the increasing failure of existing universities to admit more students. It then proposed that the nascent university project also constituted an opportunity to modernize higher education in

240-741: The Academic College of the institution approved the creation of the Cuajimalpa campus, appointing in June of that year Dr. Fresán Magdalena Orozco as the first Rector. The activities of the Unit officially pulled the September 14, 2005, using different locations, at first at the Universidad Iberoamericana . Then he took three temporary facilities: Baja California, Artifice and Constituents Constituents adding

264-453: The Conacyt, it is also among the top four with the largest number of patents granted in Mexico . After the historic 1968 Tlatelolco massacre in Mexico concluded, and after other subsequent movements in favor of education and claim social improvements, the need for comprehensive education reform in Mexico was evident. In 1973, during the administration of President Luis Echeverria Alvarez ,

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288-739: The Iztapalapa Unit was Dr. Alonso Fernandez González and began operations on September 30, 1974. In turn, the Rector of the Azcapotzalco Unit was Dr. Juan Casillas García de León, which opened its doors 11 November 1974. For the Xochimilco was Rector Dr. Ramon Villarreal Perez, initiating teaching also the November 11, 1974. Recently, the possibility of creating a new unit of the UAM was analyzed. The April 26, 2005

312-610: The Santa Fe area of Mexico City. Besides classrooms, laboratories, and workshops in physics, chemistry, photography, design, psychology, engineering, communications, architecture, and nutrition, the university houses the Francisco Xavier Clavigero library, the FM 90.9 radio station, and several auditoriums. Other facilities on campus include sports fields and related conveniences, a medical center, three cafeterias, an on-campus bookstore,

336-496: The academic programs. The main dimensions of university autonomy are academic, organizational, financial and staff autonomy. Singapore has six autonomous universities. The National Autonomous University of Mexico gained administrative autonomy in 1929. It has control of its own budget and curriculum. It is consistently ranked among the highest universities in Latin America. Mount Carmel College, Bangalore, Karnataka gained

360-427: The adjacent state: UAM Rectoría is the main office of the university system. It is located in the south of the city, on Canal de Miramontes street near Xochimilco . Autonomous university Autonomous university typically refers to a university that exercises independent control over its day-to-day operations and curriculum, as opposed to a university in which the government or a government agency controls

384-590: The aim of promoting Catholic culture and of training elites to take leading roles in Mexican society. Ibero has trained a number of successful businessmen and politicians, including the successful presidential candidate of the National Action Party (Mexico) , Vicente Fox . The Society of Jesus has from its start in the 16th century been a leader in humanistic education. When Jesuits reached New Spain in 1572, their religious and educational zeal led them to create renowned teaching and research centers – such as

408-474: The colleges of St. Ildefonso, Vizcainas, and St. Peter and St. Paul, to mention a few of the prestigious institutions of that time. The Ibero is part of a network of 8 Jesuit universities located in various Mexican cities which, in turn, are part of 31 Jesuit universities and colleges in Latin American and some 200 worldwide. In 1988 Universidad Iberoamericana moved to a 48-acre (19 hectares) new campus in

432-514: The country. The expected characteristics of the new university were it to be public, metropolitan, independent, innovative addition to its educational and organizational terms. It is under such expectations that the law comes into force for the creation of the Autonomous Metropolitan University, on 1 January 1974. On 10 January of that year, he was appointed first Rector of the UAM architect Pedro Ramirez Vazquez . The University

456-585: The founding of Ibero was former student activists from the Jesuit-directed Unión Nacional de Estudiantes Católicos  [ es ] (UNEC). The founding came at a time when church-state relations in Mexico had improved over the late 1920s during the Cristero War and in the 1930s when the government attempted to implement education toward socialism in the Mexican universities. Originally called Centro Cultural Universitario, Ibero grew into

480-555: The highest number of research. And the second institution to have publications in refereed journals, such as the Institute for Scientific Information , Latindex and journals included in the Index of Mexican Journals of Scientific and Technological Research of the National Council of Science and Technology ( Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología ) and the second to have magazines within

504-480: The other on the premises of La Paz College. Later space was rented in the Civil Hospital building. At first only high school studies and degrees in architecture, graphic design, and law were offered. In 1985, the cornerstone was laid for the present building. Today the university's Mexico City Campus is made up of 19 academic departments, which offer a total of 36 academic programs. Its most famous alumnus

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528-471: Was decided that their internal organization would be composed of divisions and academic departments, creating a contrast with the Schools and Colleges of existing universities. Each division would group different areas of knowledge and related disciplines each department, in order to give a flexible structure that prevents the lag that education has suffered in relation to the progress of science. The first Rector of

552-642: Was founded in 1943 by the Society of Jesus, but with the significant aid of Rodolfo Brito Foucher, the rector of the National Autonomous University of Mexico . Brito Foucher, a lawyer and head of UNAM's law faculty before becoming rector, was of the opinion that this was not counter to the Constitution of 1917 's prohibition of Catholic involvement in education, since the article did not specify higher education but only primary and secondary. A key group in

576-534: Was second in the number of full-time research professors with doctorates , according to the Comparative Study of Mexican Universities ( Estudio Comparativo de Universidades Mexicanas ); having the second largest number of built in National and Research System ( Sistema Nacional de Investigadores ) the second in having researchers at Level 3 of the same researchers. One of the leading universities in Mexico to submit

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