Universidad Externado de Colombia
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| motto | Post tenebras spero lucem |
| founding | February 15, 1886 |
| Sponsorship | Private |
| place | Bogotá |
| Rector | Juan Carlos Henao |
| Students | 13,500 (2017) |
| Employee | 582 |
| including professors | 115 |
| Website | www.uexternado.edu.co |
The Universidad Externado de Colombia (abbreviation: UExt, German external university of Colombia ) is a private university in the Colombian capital Bogotá , which is dedicated to teaching and researching the social sciences with a humanistic concept. It was founded by Nicolás Pinzón Warlosten as a law faculty in 1886 in response to educational restrictions during the dictatorship of La Regeneración , when liberal forces lost power in 1885 and conservatives took over the government. It received full university status in 1958 .
history
The university was founded on February 15, 1886 by the young lawyer and educator Nicolás Pinzón Warlosten . With the support of a group of famous personalities and intellectuals of the radical liberalism movement in Colombia, she advocated free study and that of liberal ideas from the start. It granted admission to students from all regions of the country, respected religious creeds and political ideology, and promoted tolerance as a formula for peaceful coexistence within heterogeneity .
The university was called “Externado” because the new institution was influenced at the time by the most advanced European educational centers, which opposed the “old system of boarding school , which was a school of medieval origin, inclined towards the catechism and unsuitable for autonomous personal development ". The Externado therefore implied openness, freedom of study and teaching. The previous rectors were Nicolás Pinzón Warlosten (1886 - 1895), Diego Mendoza Pérez (1918 - 1933), Ricardo Hinestrosa Daza (1933 - 1963), Fernando Hinestrosa (1963 - 2012); Juan Carlos Henao is the current Rector (since 2012).
mission
The activity of the Externado develops within a pluralistic philosophy that is open to all streams of thought, is alien to dogmatism and respects all religious creeds and political ideologies .
The Externado de Colombia looks at the viability of Colombia as a nation with confidence and is committed to promoting national identity. It supports integration with Latin American countries as a guarantee of a significant presence on the international stage and promotes cooperation with universities around the world.
Within the liberal spirit that animates it, the Externado de Colombia pursues the ideal of freedom as the inalienable right of man to have confidence in democracy. It fights for the improvement of the social legal status, for the search for equality on a social and economic level and for the respect of fundamental rights .
In 2005, UNESCO established a chair for human rights, violence, public order and governance at the university.
The campus is located on the eastern edge of the La Candelaria district in Bogotá, the historical, political and cultural center of Colombia, at the foot of the Guadalupe Hill . It has an area of 65,000 square meters, surrounded by gardens and forests and eleven buildings with modern infrastructure for academic life.
Faculties
- School of Management
- Educational science
- Social and human sciences
- Social communication
- Public accounting
- Dean of culture
- law Sciences
- Economics
- Cultural Heritage Studies
- Tourism and hotel management
- Finance, Government and International Relations
Web links
- Internet presence of the 'Externado de Colombia' (Spanish, English, French)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Nuestra Universidad en Chifras uexternado.edu.co. Accessed May 8, 2020 (es)
- ↑ Regeneración y catástrofe bibliotecanacional.gov.co. Accessed May 8, 2020 (es)
- ↑ Externado University of Colombia university24k.com. Accessed May 7, 2020 (en)
- ↑ La Rectoría uexternado.edu.co. Accessed May 8, 2020 (es)
- ↑ Internationalization uexternado.edu.co. Accessed May 7, 2020 (en)
- ^ Misión e historia de la Universidad uexternado.edu.co. Accessed May 7, 2020 (es)
- ↑ Cátedra Unesco “Derechos Humanos y violencia: gobierno y gobernanza” uexternado.edu.co. Accessed May 7, 2020 (es)
- ↑ Espacios físicos uexternado.edu.co. Accessed May 7, 2020 (es)