University of La Laguna

Universidad de La Laguna
founding	1927
Sponsorship	state
place	San Cristóbal de La Laguna , Comunidad Autónoma de Canarias
country	Spain
Rector	D. Antonio Martinón Cejas
Students	24,000 (2013)
Employee	2,600 (2013)
including professors	Teaching staff 1,800 (2013)
Networks	CGU
Website	www.ull.es

The University of La Laguna ( Spanish Universidad de La Laguna ) is a state university in the Spanish city of San Cristóbal de La Laguna on Tenerife .

Compañía de Jesús building

Convento de San Agustin

Cristóbal Bencomo y Rodríguez . Confessor of King Ferdinand VII of Spain and Archbishop of Heraclea . He was the great promoter of the creation of the Universidad Literaria de San Fernando and the Diocese of San Cristóbal de La Laguna .

History of the university and its predecessors

Until 1927

The beginning of academic teaching in the Canary Islands can be dated to 1701, when the Augustinian monks established a center for higher religious studies in La Laguna. The early development of the university is characterized by a series of orders and revocations that have alternated since 1744. In that year the ecclesiastical university of San Agustin was established by a papal bull. However, this arrangement was never implemented. A royal decree of Charles IV of March 11, 1792 ordered the creation of a university in what was then the capital of the Canary Islands. The political situation that arose since 1793, however, prevented a real establishment of this institution. After the Napoleonic period and the restoration of the Bourbon dynasty, the old endeavors were resumed. In 1816 a royal decree re-established a university in the city of San Cristóbal de La Laguna with the same privileges and advantages as those granted in the rest of the kingdom and to name this university San Fernando. This made the Compañía de Jesús building the seat of the Universidad Literaria de San Fernando. One of the driving forces behind the establishment of the university was the Catholic bishop and confessor King Ferdinand VII. Of Spain , Cristobal Bencomo y Rodríguez .

The new university opened on January 12, 1817. It soon became apparent, however, that the building was inadequate for the increasing number of students. Therefore, various university facilities were relocated to the Augustinian monastery. In December 1821, the entire facility of the university began to be relocated there. After the monastery was dissolved in 1837 as part of the Desarmortizazión, this was the center of the university. The Compañía de Jesús building continued to be important for public events and as the location of the library. The Sociedad Patriótica and the Real Sociedad Económica de Amigos del País also got rooms in the building of the Jesuit order (the Compañía de Jesús). By a royal decree of 1845, the number of universities in Spain was limited to ten and the educational institution in the Augustinian monastery was established as the only grammar school in the Canary Islands (Instituto de Canarias). During the visit of King Alfonso XIII. (Spain) In 1906 in the grammar school in the Augustinian monastery in La Laguna, the director Adolfo Cabrera Pinto used the opportunity to ask the king to re-establish the University of San Fernando. The first results of this request came in the royal decree of 1913, in which the establishment of a philosophical and a philological faculty and the preparation of a law faculty were ordered. The departments of the university were expanded in 1917 to include preparatory courses in medicine and pharmacy. In 1921, the law was added so that the city of La Laguna could see itself as a university town.

Central elevation of the main building on the Central Campus

From 1927

It was not until 1927 that the University of La Laguna was created by the royal decree of September 21st. The gradual growth of the faculties led to considerations to erect new buildings for the university. In 1929 a public competition for the construction of a university building and a student residence was announced. A design by the architect Ceballos was selected from the proposals. Construction work began in 1935; But these did not progress and were discontinued during the civil war. The resumed construction work on the buildings of Campus Central was carried out according to plans by José Enrique Marrero Regalado and Domingo Pisaca. In 1942, the Classical Languages ​​Department of the Philosophical Faculty was able to move into the building. In 1960, the entire building on today's Campus Central was handed over to its intended use. The Universidad de La Laguna was expanded with new facilities. The departments for English (1963), for biology (1967) and for mathematics (1969) were created. At the same time (1968) the Faculty of Medicine was created. The further development of the educational institution was shaped by the inclusion of new fields of study, which means that the university can now keep up with the leading universities in Spain. In 1972 the University of Applied Sciences for Business Administration was created and teacher training began. Construction technology was added a year later. The Faculty of Pharmacy was founded in 1974, the Faculty of Economics in 1975. 1977 was the year the College of Nursing was established. A year later the college for social work was affiliated and in 1979 the art academy in Santa Cruz. In 1982 the old faculty for philosophy and humanities was divided into separate faculties for philology, for philosophy, for psychology, for education and for geography and history. The 1990s saw the creation of a new type of educational institution in the Spanish university system. These “centers” are more oriented towards the requirements of professional practice. Thus in 1990 the Centro for Maritime Navigation and Marine Studies and Electronic Data Processing (Centro Superior de Náutica y Estudios del Mar y de Informática) was created, in 1991 the Centro de Ciencias Agrarias (Centro de Ciencias Agrarias), in 1995 that for education and the last one in 1999 for politics and Social Science (Centro Superior de Ciencias Políticas y Sociales).

campus

• Campus Central is located southeast of the historic old town of La Laguna. This is where the buildings from the early days of the university are located, which are particularly used by central institutions and the Faculty of Education.
• The Campus de Anchieta is seen from the Campus Central on the other side of the northern motorway. This campus is primarily used by the natural science faculties.
• The Guajara campus was built north of the motorway especially for the humanities faculties.
• The Ofra campus includes the two university clinics, the Hospital Universitario and the Hospital Nuestra Señora de La Candelaria.
• The art college is located in the north of Santa Cruz. The conservatory on the other side of the thoroughfare is not part of the university.
• The Escuela Técnica Superior de Náutica, Máquinas y Radioelectrónica Naval is located directly by the sea in Santa Cruz de Tenerife on the road to San Andrés
• Some of the schools affiliated with the university are located in other cities.

Faculties and affiliated schools

• Facultad de Bellas Artes (Art Academy)
• Facultad de Biología (Faculty of Biology)
• Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales (Faculty of Economics and Business Administration)
• Facultad de Ciencias de la Información (Faculty of Computer Science)
• Facultad de Ciencias Políticas y Sociales (Faculty of Political and Social Science)
• Facultad de Derecho (Faculty of Law)
• Facultad de Educación (Faculty of Education)
• Facultad de Farmacia (Faculty of Pharmacy)
• Facultad de Filología (Faculty of Philology)
• Facultad de Filosofía (Faculty of Philosophy)
• Facultad de Física (Faculty of Physics)
• Facultad de Geografía e Historia (Faculty of Geography and History)
• Facultad de Matemáticas (Faculty of Mathematics)
• Facultad de Medicina (Faculty of Medicine)
• Facultad de Psicología (Faculty of Psychology)
• Facultad de Química (Faculty of Chemistry)

• Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería Agraria (College of Agricultural Sciences)
• Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería Civil e Industrial (College of Engineering)
• Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería Informática (University of Applied Sciences for Computer Science)
• Escuela Técnica Superior de Naútica, Máquinas y Radioelectrónica Naval (University of Applied Sciences for Maritime Shipping)

• Escuela Universitaria de Arquitectura Técnica (Technical School for Construction)
• Escuela Universitaria de Enfermería y Fisioterapia (College of Nursing and Physiotherapy)
• Escuela Universitaria de Empresa y Turismo (Adeje) (School of Business Administration and Tourism)
• Escuela Universitaria de Enfermería Nª Sª de Candelaria (School of Nursing)
• Escuela Universitaria de Enfermería (La Palma) (Technical School for Nursing)
• Escuela de Turismo de Tenerife (School of Tourism)
• Escuela Universitaria de Ciencias Empresariales (School of Business Administration)

literature

• María F. Núñez Muños (Ed.): Historia de la Universidad de La Laguna . Publicaciones Institucionales, Tenerife 1998 (Spanish).

Web links

Commons : Universidad de La Laguna  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• University website (Spanish, English)
• Film about the ballroom (Spanish)
• Website of the Student Organization for International Relations (AURI) (Spanish, English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ https://www.ull.es/en/the-university/rectors-welcome-message/
2. ↑ Member universities. In: web.gcompostela.org. Compostela Group of Universities, 2019, accessed on September 16, 2019 .  
3. ↑ The official name of the city of San Cristóbal de La Laguna is hardly used in everyday life on the island. Hence the name of the university is not Universidad de San Cristóbal de La Laguna, but Universidad de La Laguna. However, this name is usually abbreviated as ULL.
4. ↑ Obispos canarios. Página web oficial de la Diócesis de Canarias accessed on March 28, 2016.
5. ↑ Orígenes de la ULL. (No longer available online.) Universidad de La Laguna, 2013, archived from the original on August 27, 2016 ; Retrieved October 31, 2013 (Spanish). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
6. ^ Siglo XX. (No longer available online.) Universidad de La Laguna, archived from the original on October 23, 2013 ; Retrieved October 31, 2013 (Spanish). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
7. ↑ escuelas y facultades. Universidad de La Laguna, 2013, accessed October 31, 2013 (Spanish). 

Coordinates: 28 ° 28 ′ 54 ″  N , 16 ° 19 ′ 1 ″  W.