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For Leopoldo Múnera, a contemporary college is unimaginable if it doesn’t have autonomy of thought, a assure of independence within the manufacturing of data and in its vital angle in the direction of the political and social, the college shouldn’t be topic to some type of energy. And the Colombian college has been attacked from the surface and from the within, attempting to restrict its independence, its independence of thought. And that is how college ends. With out pluralism there is no such thing as a college. Leopoldo Múnera mentioned this throughout his marketing campaign for the presidency of the Nationwide College, a campus he discovered to like since his father, who was a professor, took him to his lessons. He has been a professor at this college since he was 24 years previous.
The scholars all the time had a PHD in Political Science, a grasp’s diploma in improvement and a grasp’s diploma within the philosophy of regulation with this lawyer. That’s the reason Leopoldo Múnera was extensively chosen in March 2024, however in a extensively mentioned resolution, the Basic Council of the CSU College shortly appointed José Ismael Peña as rector for the interval 2024-2027. After being knowledgeable of the autumn of his appointment, Peña, who took possession of himself in a notary’s workplace in Bogotá on Could 2, introduced that he is not going to sit nonetheless and can file judicial appeals to reverse this resolution.
What the CSU carried out in March in the course of the Peña elections was a technique referred to as “Borda” by which direct voting was abolished and, within the course of, the autonomy of the scholars in selecting their rector. From that second on, the College went into battle and it was solely till final Thursday, June 6, that the coed’s resolution was revered within the election of the brand new rector. It was in a unprecedented session when 5 of the eight members of the CSU corrected what many thought of to be a theft. The Basic Council promised to get rid of “the irregularities that occurred within the administrative exercise to nominate the rector of the Nationwide College of Colombia.”
As Dean of the regulation college and vice rector of the Bogotá campus, Múra confirmed himself unmistakably on behalf of the scholars. He was additionally a defender of gender parity throughout the College and in the course of the marketing campaign he was involved that the proportion of scholars on the Nationwide was between 60-40. “If girls usually are not allowed full entry to the college, we is not going to have girls’s expertise of the imaginative and prescient they’ve for society and that contradicts our imaginative and prescient of society. “Colombian society has the proper to entry the data that ladies have.”
In 2019 and 2021, younger folks took to the streets in the course of the social outbreak. Boys bored with conventional politics that denied them a future. A mobilization constructed from insecurity, sectors that don’t cease escalating, and, for Mourne, in an interview with Raya journal, the attention-grabbing factor about that is that there was direct contact with the coed motion, “Sectors of scholars they mixed in an city and rural mobilization, this mobilization helped two younger folks to come back collectively.” It was a mobilization that built-in households. The moms supported their kids on this mobilization and requested to consider one other sort of society and one other sort of entry, akin to schooling and well being. Murray, in his marketing campaign, spoke intimately about this. The scholar motion believes that this sector that has been denied entry to schooling may have a possibility to be a part of greater schooling with Leopoldo Múra as its rector.
There are factors in frequent between Múnera’s considering and Petro’s considering concerning entry to schooling, increasing protection in greater schooling isn’t a flag of Petro’s authorities “However he took it from the coed motion” says Múnera within the aforementioned interview. It is usually sure that greater schooling should be dropped at the remotest territories. Petro refers to Múrne as “a fantastic mental” and simply his eight books, his grasp’s levels in Philosophy of Legislation on the Università degli Studi di Roma and in Growth on the Université Catholique de Louvain, he speaks Italian and French completely. English and German. Along with this assist for the autonomy of the college, Múireara will come to the Nationwide College with an formidable plan to put it on the forefront of data: to acquire pedagogical schooling, to consolidate the nationwide institute of analysis, innovation and schooling coverage, the finances of the rise states. universities, recuperate the college hospital of San Juan de Dios, amongst different reforms that the college urgently wants.
With this resolution, the college college students could have somebody on their facet within the rector.