Universidad Iberoamericana | |
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Motto | La verdad nos hará libres (Spanish) |
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Motto in English | The Truth shall set us free [a] |
Type | Private Catholic university |
Established | March 7, 1943 |
Religious affiliation | Roman Catholic (Jesuit) |
Academic affiliations | SUJ, AUSJAL |
Rector | Luis Arriaga Valenzuela SJ |
Students | 12,328 (as of 2022) |
Location | , Mexico 19°22′11″N99°15′50″W / 19.36972°N 99.26389°W |
Campus | Urban 48 acres (19 ha) |
Colors | Red [1] |
Nickname | Lobos (Wolves) |
Mascot | Iñaki |
Website | ibero |
The Ibero-American University (Spanish : Universidad Iberoamericana), also referred to by its acronym UIA but commonly known as Ibero or La Ibero, 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 is one of the largest university libraries in the country. [2] It also has one of the largest law libraries in Mexico.[ citation needed ]
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 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. [3] A key group in the founding of Ibero was former student activists from the Jesuit-directed Unión Nacional de Estudiantes Católicos (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. [4]
Originally called Centro Cultural Universitario, Ibero grew into 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. [5] When the Mexican economy expanded during the 1940s to 1960s, Ibero-trained professionals who entered the private sector, [5] many of the former leaders of the UNEC [6] served on the university's board of trustees. Ibero had 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. [7] When Jesuits reached New Spain in 1572, their religious and educational zeal led them to create renowned teaching and research centers – such as 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 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, 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. [8] 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 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. [9]
Today the university's Mexico City Campus is made up of 19 academic departments, which offer a total of 36 academic programs.
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Its most famous alumnus is Vicente Fox Quesada, President of Mexico 2000-2006. Other distinguished alums with high name recognition internationally are actress Salma Hayek; Academy Award-winning film maker Alejandro González Iñárritu; and journalist Jorge Ramos.
Athletics
Business
Film
History, philosophy, literature, art and architecture
Politics and Public Sector
Television and mass media
Science and engineering
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