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The Autonomous University of Nuevo León (Spanish: Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, UANL) is a public higher-education institution with its headquarters in the suburbs of Monterrey and several campuses in various municipalities of the northern Mexican state of Nuevo León.
Brief history
Although the Catholic church already had an official cathedra of philosophy and grammar in the state by 1703, the immediate forerunner of this public university only dates back to 1859, when the Civil School (Colegio Civil) started its courses. This institution had been envisioned by Governor Santiago Vidaurri but erected by his successor, José Silvestre Aramberri, after Vidaurri was removed from office. It began by sponsoring the pharmacy and medicine courses Dr. José Eleuterio González had been teaching at the Hospital del Rosario (Hospital of the Rosary) for several decades. The academic offerings included courses in law and medicine, as well as a preparatory school. Its first director was José de Jesús Dávila y Prieto.
As time passed the number of majors and courses was increased and the institution gave birth to several specialized faculties in charge of their teaching and supervision. Said institutions did not formally organize into a university until 1933, when Universidad de Nuevo León was created. In its first year, 1,864 students were taught by 218 professors from the faculties of medicine, law, engineering, and chemistry, the Normal School, the High School, the School of Nurses and Obstetricians and the Álvaro Obregón and Pablo Livas Industrial Schools.
The number of faculty and personnel was growing, and this prompted the construction in 1958 of the Ciudad Universitaria (University City), an academic complex located in San Nicolás de los Garza, a suburb of the state capital. By 1971 student protests had forced the government to stop interfering in its internal affairs and recognize a statute of autonomy that gave birth to its current name: Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León.
At the end of 1990s the institution saw the necessity to rent the professional soccer team which was maintained in the professional Mexican league (Club Tigres de la UANL). This team was later affected by a corruption scandal which ended with no legal consequences for those accused after several years of cooling in court.
At present
At the end of the year 2003, the universtiy had the largest number of researchers on the Mexican Research System. The university city was composed of the Torre de Rectoría, thirteen schools (the Faculty of Biological Sciences, the Faculty of Chemical Sciences, the Faculty of Architecture, the Faculty of Physical Sciences-Mathematics, the Faculty of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters, the Faculty of Public Accounting and Administration and the Faculty of Sports Organization; a stage, two large libraries, two computer science clubs, cafeterias and a pleiad of investigation institutes, auditoriums, laboratories, gymnasiums and gardens. In the city of Monterrey, the ___location of the Medical Area, is composed of faculties of Medicine, Odontology, Infirmary, Psychology, Public Health and Nutrition and the University Hospital. Also located here is the Mederos Campus integrated for the faculties of Political Science, Veterinary Medicine and Zootechny, Music, Visual Arts, Scenic Arts, Communication and the Center of Investigation and Development of Bilingual Education.
Outside the metropolitan area are located seven seats. In the municipality of Marín is the Faculty of Agronomy, in Linares the Forest Sciences, Earth Sciences and an extension of the Faculty of Public Accounting and Administration, in Sabinas Hidalgo are located two extensions, the Faculty of Rights and Criminology and the Faculty of Public Accounting and Administration, which has another seat in Cadereyta Jiménez.
The official mascots of the representative teams are the Tigers (Tigres) in masculine form and the Tigresses (Tigrillas) in feminine form. The director is José Antonio González Treviño.
Humanist presence
In face of the huge emphasis that scientific and technological development has achieved at the University, it is worth mentioning the humanistic presence, mainly led by people like Alfonso Reyes "El Regiomontano Universal", Raul Rangel Frías, Israel Cavazos, Alfonso Rangel Guerra, Agustín Basave Fernandez del Valle, among others; who have not only contributed to a higher humanistic consciousness in the institution, but in Monterrey's community as well. UANL's humanistic investigation outcomes are published in the annuary Humanitas, it also has a Regional History Investigation Center (Centro de Investigación de Historia Regional), in the exhacienda San Pedro, in Zuazua, Center for Studies about the University (Centro de Estudios sobre la Universidad), which seats on the Magna library Synphonyc Orchestra, Camera Orchestra and a band of regional music El Tigre. Without the pretentious infrastructure of the cultural centers on Monterrey, Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, has achieved in all of its history, the formation and conservation of a sincere and free access culture.
Notable graduates
Graduates (estudios de primer ciclo):
- Governors: Jorge Treviño, Sócrates Rizzo, Fernando Canales Clariond, Fernando Elizondo Barragán and José Natividad González Parás
- Cabinet secretaries: Reyes Tamez, María Teresa Herrera and Luis Eugenio Todd
Postgraduates (estudios de segundo y tercer ciclo):
- The industrialist Mauricio Fernández Garza
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References
This article draws heavily on the corresponding article in the Spanish-language Wikipedia, which was accessed in the version of April 3, 2005.