Public universities facing new challenges
Section of the weekly program InfoCLACSO intended to analyze, reflect and develop proposals based on the question: What challenges do public universities face in Latin America?
“Public higher education is under severe attack in our region.”
Karina Batthyány, Executive Director of CLACSO – University of the Republic, Uruguay
“The right wing needs to delegitimize the university, cut its budget, and stigmatize it.”
René Ramírez, from the National Autonomous University of Mexico, coordinator of the Science, Technology and Innovation Axis of the UNESCO CRES.
"The current Colombian government has invested the most in education."
Ricardo Moreno Patiño, Vice Minister of Higher Education of Colombia.
“We are in a scenario of strangulation of public universities”
Ana Laura Rivoir, Uruguayan sociologist, coordinator of the Postgraduate Program in Latin American Studies, University of the Republic (Uruguay).
National University of San Marcos, Lima, Peru
Carlota Casalino, historian, principal lecturer at UNMSC, and Marcel Velázquez, PhD in Latin American Literature and research professor at UNMSC analyze the conflict unleashed and the repression against the demands for clean elections of deans, faculty representatives and students to collegiate governing bodies.
Universities and Depatriarchalization
Students and professors from Latin American universities said “enough!” to gender-based violence in educational spaces. As a result, feminist academics from various countries are discussing the transformations taking place in multiple dimensions of the university sphere, the difficulties in achieving them, and the successes identified. Participants: Paula Contreras (Chile), Noelia Correa (Uruguay), Eliana Debia (Argentina), Almudena Cabezas (Spain), and Selene Aldana (Mexico). Organized by the CLACSO Working Group “Universities and Depatriarchalization.”
What role do public universities play in society?
-Sayri Karp Mitastein, Director of publications at the University of Guadalajara in Mexico.
-Pablo Barberis, Vice Dean of the Faculty of Social Work of the National University of Entre Ríos.
-Anna Arias, Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Buenos Aires.
-Eduardo RinesiPolitical scientist, philosopher, former rector of the National University of General Sarmiento between 2010 and 2014.
-Julia Smola, Dean of the Institute of Human Development at the National University of General Sarmiento.
"The first major challenge for universities is to be a lever for social cohesion."
Rodrigo Arim, Rector of the University of the Republic (Udelar)
“Inequalities in Paraguay require policies that go far beyond school meals.”
Verónica Serafini, from the Center for Analysis and Dissemination of the Paraguayan Economy and member of the CLACSO Steering Committee
"There is a policy of suffocation towards the National University of the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo"
Gustavo Pons, Academic Vice-Rector of the National University Madres de Plaza de Mayo
“In Colombia, we envision a university centered around the common good of knowledge.”
Leopoldo Múnera Ruiz, Rector of the National University of Colombia
“Public universities have been besieged and defunded.”
Carolina Jiménez Martín, Vice-Rector of the National University of Colombia, Bogotá campus, member of the CLACSO Steering Committee
Interviews within the framework of Plenary of Deans of Faculties of Social Sciences and Humanities CODESOC, The Council of Deans of Social Sciences of Argentina – May 30 and 31, 2024, at the University of General Sarmiento and at the National Interuniversity Council (CIN).
"In Argentina, university budgets are not excessive and there are no superfluous expenses."
María Eugenia Martín, Dean of the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences at the National University of Cuyo, in Mendoza
“Milei has a project to destroy the Argentine state and society.”
Atilio Borón, Sociologist, political scientist, former Executive Secretary of CLACSO
“Free tuition, quality in higher education, and territorial commitment are non-negotiable.”
Daniel Escribano, Dean of the Department of Culture, Art and Communication at the National University of Avellaneda, Argentina
“The role of the social sciences is key to being able to think of ourselves as a community.”
Barbara Couto, Dean of the Institute of the Greater Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area at the National University of General Sarmiento
“People need judges who will put limits on power.”
Alejo Ramos Padilla, Federal Judge with electoral jurisdiction in charge of Federal Court 1 of La Plata and Doctor of Human Rights from the National University of Lanús
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