2024-02-21 03:30:00
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Next March 12 and 13, The National University of Comahue will meet in an Assembly to reformulate the bases of its Statuteincorporate perspectives, expand rights and create new academic units.
The UNCo will be refounded with an eye on the 21st century, collecting trajectories and experiences from these more than fifty years of academic and scientific life
Daughter of the expansion of the university system in the 1970s and arising from the experiences of the Provincial University of Neuquén and the teaching institutes of the province of Río Negro, the study house had a history strongly linked to regional needs.
It was intended for to train professionals who would anticipate the problems of the future of provinces that were awakening under the power of hydroelectric energy, hydrocarbon wealth and fruit growing in the Valley.
The university community of Comahue also chose to be part of the democratic recovery and reconstruction of the country from the 1980s onwards.
It was not immune to the economic crises that resulted in defunding if not abandonment by the National State; nor the socio-political ones, which found their students, teachers and non-teachers committed to the collective demand.
A university that grew faster – in students, majors, faculties and agendas – than its regulatory and political structure might containmade consensus not always easy to find when proposing changes. On some occasions, the dynamics of the internal conflict resulted in the impossibility of carrying out the necessary modifications and delayed us in sterile scenarios.
Even so, adverse situations did not stop UNCo’s potential, nor its convocation and capacity in academic, scientific and technological matters. With more than 33,000 students, 80 undergraduate and graduate courses and 56 postgraduate courses, 17 academic units and 7 Institutes with dual membership with Conicet and with more than 2,500 researchers, UNCo was chosen (2022-2023) as the ninth best university in Argentina by the Center for World University Ranking (CWUR). In the same sense, it was included in the list of the 2,000 best universities worldwide, among a total of 19,788 institutes surveyed.
Since the drafting of our Statute until today, the agenda of society’s problems and demands have been multiplying, as well as the emergence of new socio-cultural configurations. These new realities demand readings and responses that must be thought regarding from other conceptual horizons.
On this path they enroll the 19 projects that the University Assembly will debate. Projects that were developed, discussed and agreed upon during the year 2023 and approved -16 of them unanimously- in the extraordinary session of the Superior Council.
La gender, environmental and intercultural perspective cThey constitute three transversal axes that the Assembly will debate to be incorporated into our Statute. The objective is nothing more than to reformulate the foundations on which the ethical-political commitment of the institution is based with the society that supports it and the scientific-academic work that constitutes it.
Recovering its regional idiosyncrasy and honoring the original commitment of this university to local communities, The Assembly will have on its agenda the proposal to expand and prioritize its academic units in Zapala, San Martín de los Andes, Viedma and San Antonio Oeste.
Likewise, and in this path of necessary renewal, there will be debate the adaptation of the Statute to the rights contained in the teaching and non-teaching collective agreements, the creation of the Social Council – provided for in the Higher Education Law -, the incorporation of teaching modalities, internal control areas, evaluation mechanisms, electoral deadlines, among other topics.
Mark Fischer wrote that the fight for democracy is the fight to build new images of the future. Not like utopias of magical paradises; but nor as a threat of a catastrophic future that forces us to resignedly accept a dark present. It will be necessary, then, to overcome the paralysis of the imagination.
Every university institution preexists us and at the same time survives us; For this reason, the National University of Comahue – gathered in Assembly – will be encouraged to rewrite its “social contract†as a way to transcend the precariousness of the present and as a reassurance of a more dignified future.
Welcome to the new projects and new sensitivities that 275 assembly members will have in their hands to give birth to a new stage. Fifty years of history unites us; Let’s start writing those that will come.
Rector of the National University of Comahue
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