dination with UADY for

over 25 years, come on

'Springbreak' and thus substi-

tute their vacation doing

community work," he explai-

ned. "During the summer

UADY students make a si-

milar stay in Florida."

He said that today, Wednes-

day, the work of students and

academics from the universi-

ties of Florida and Yucatán

was held in Izamal and to-

morrow will be held in Tel-

chac. Among the young peo-

ple there are students of me-

dicine, nursing, dentistry,

chemistry and audiology.

Mérida, Yucatán, March 5, 2014

-. Since last Saturday, as part of

the Yucatán Project, 45 students

and faculty from the University

of Florida, along with a large

group of students from the Auto-

nomous University of Yucatan

(UADY) provide their services

for the benefit of the inhabitants

of various small communities in

the interior of the state said Jorge

Carlos Guillermo Herrera, head

of the Comprehensive System of

Student Services at UADY.

He said that the university and

American teachers had arrived

on Saturday morning and imme-

diately met with academics and

managers of the Faculty of Me-

dicine to arrange work schedu-

les, together with students and

members from UADY’s Volun-

tary Program Hoy en tu Comuni-

dad.

"They are now in Izamal

and tomorrow they will con-

clude their stay in Yucatan

hoping to have attended

about 2,000 people," said

Guillermo Herrera who reca-

lled that on Tuesday and on

Monday they visited small

communities and municipali-

ties Tixkokob and Samahil.

"The intention is that stu-

dents in Florida, an institu-

tion that has worked in coor-

Last December the Iberoameri-

cana University Postgraduate

Association awarded the Prize

AUIP to the Quality Graduate

and PhD in Latin America pro-

gram, to the Institutional Ph.D.

in Management of Tropical Na-

tural Resources Graduate Pro-

gram in Agricultural Sciences

of the Autonomous University

of Yucatan.

Similarly, the Master of the Institutio-

nal Graduate Program in Agricultural

Science and Management of Tropical

Natural Resources was also recipient

of the Award for Quality AUIP Post-

graduate and PhD in Latin America.

The Act awards ceremony is schedu-

led for March 20, 2014 within the fra-

mework of the General Assembly of

the Association convened in Bogotá,

Colombia (National University, 20

and March 21, 2014).

F l o r i d a S t u d e n t s s t r e n g t h e n

“ H o y e n t u C o m u n i d a d ” p r o g r a m

I N T H I S

N E W S L E T T E R

Visiting stu-

dents and stu-

dents from

UADY make a

difference by

helping the

community in

various ways.

Several of

UADY’s educa-

tional programs

receive recogni-

tion.

Master and Ph.D of the Autonomous University of Yucatan recieve award.

A U T O N O M O U S U N I V E R S I T Y O F Y U C A T A N

General Coordination of Cooperation and

internationalization

January-March 2014

Merida, Yucatan, 20 of February of

2014.- The School of Chemical Engi-

neering at the Autonomous Universi-

ty of Yucatan (UADY) was endorsed

for the fourth consecutive time with a

quality recognition for its educational

program in Industrial Engineering

Chemistry. "Receiving for the fourth

time the accreditation certificate

means is not a coincidence, we are

talking about a quality that has come

to stay and shows that UADY has a

new form of academic life which

makes things right for the benefit of

students "said the president of the

university Alfredo Dájer Abimerhi

who received the award from Maria

Elena Barrera Bustillos, president of

the Accreditation Board for Engi-

neering Education (CACEI by its

acronym in Spanish).

"All that UADY does is for the stu-

dents’ better training, enabling them

to build their life projects which will

realize their professional careers and

find the spaces where they can suc-

cessfully perform as citizens and

professionals," said the president at

the distinction ceremony today in the

courtyard of the Faculty of Chemical

Engineering, Campus of Exact Sci-

ences and Engineering.

It is important to note that this ac-

creditation, valid for five years, was

granted in 1999, 2004 and 2009. The

Directorate General of Academic

Development at UADY reported that

36 of its 41 degree programs are cur-

rently enjoying national recognition for

its quality.

"Our first obligation as an educational

institution is to do our part to build a

higher education system, which the

country desperately needs," said the

president before dozens of students,

academics and members of the Univer-

sity Council. "This system will ensure

that all young people that study a de-

gree, regardless of the institution, agen-

cy or program will be guaranteed an

education of quality."

In turn Marcela Zamudio Maya, direc-

tor of the School of Chemical Engi-

neering at UADY said that "quality

education is necessary to respond to

young people who bet their intellectual

capital to UADY to forge their profes-

sional future" and said "the institution

is accountable to society which has

entrusted with the noble task of train-

ing the professionals who will be re-

sponsible for transforming the way

we understand social development,

bringing new logic and more inclu-

sive and fair process in a society that

must reinvent all days. "

She also said that to achieve accredi-

tation plan, they had to demonstrated

that they counted with consistent

studies, teachers with high profes-

sional and educational qualification,

relevant lines of research which

were consistent with the social and

productive needs, mobility pro-

grams, interaction with the produc-

tive sectors, modern infrastructure

and comprehensive and specialized

library collections.

Finally Maria Elena Barrera Bustil-

los, president of CACEI, said that of

the 4,000 engineering programs in

the country that only 16% have ac-

creditation. "I deliver this recogni-

tion to UADY, its officers, academ-

ics and students who must be

pleased that the work is paying off

and to the productive sector; I say

that in this university they are

properly forming students so we can

guarantee they come out with the

profile that is required."

tary schools in this city to

narrate a series of short sto-

ries, in order to promote

reading and generate inter-

est in other languages, said

Julieta Guerrero Walker,

director of the School of

Using an innovative techni-

que for teaching English, 27

students from the Bachelor

of Teaching English (LEI by

its Spanish acronym) attend

on March 7, to two elemen-

Education of the Autonomous

University of Yucatan

(UADY).

U A D Y r e c e i v e s i t s f o u r t h c o n s e c u t i v e

a c c r e d i t a t i o n f o r t h e p r o g r a m o f

I n d u s t r i a l C h e m i c a l E n g i n e e r i n g

2 7 S t u d e n t s o f t h e F a c u l t y

o f E d u c a t i o n p a r t i c i p a t e i n

t h e " S t o r y t e l l i n g " p r o j e c t

P a g e 2

ries, biographies, works

of history, politics, sci-

ence, culture, technolo-

gy, art, design, gastrono-

my, of cartoonists, sci-

ence fiction, superhero,

social analysis, photog-

raphy, and journalism. "

"Let us read, because a

reading society is a soci-

ety that thinks, that dis-

cusses and builds togeth-

er their own idea of the

future. It is a society that

is conformed by women

and men, free, critical

and creative ... by read-

ing we opened the door

to the extraordinary op-

portunity to talk with the

writer, and without

thinking, we speak with

Cervantes, Mo Yan, Gar-

cía Márquez, Pacheco,

Poniatowska, or Vargas

Llosa, wherever they are.

"

Opening the FILEY

Rolando Zapata Bello,

Governor of the State,

said that this event places

UADY as an axis that

integrates the Secretary

of Education , the Minis-

try of Culture and the

Arts, the College of Arts

Yucatan, CULTUR and

private sponsors and cul-

tural promoters , among

others.

"This is a reading fair

that brings us to Guada-

lajara and Ecuador and

brings together in one

space readers, writers

and publishers, meaning

the literary creative in-

dustry as a whole," he

said. "Last year at the

opening of the fair, we

reflected on the im-

portance of a partnership

of readers, reaching dif-

ferent conclusions, but

all reaffirming that un-

doubtedly reading is the

most noble and profitable

act by which we obtain

knowledge".

"A society that reads, is

happier, more educated,

more prepared, more

competitive, more in-

formed and free, I'm sure

you all know that read-

ing, everywhere you

look, is good,

and in Yucatan

we are not sat-

isfied with just

knowing and

every time we

are able to ex-

tend the invita-

tion to all to

enjoy reading

and culture."

Mérida, Yucatán, March

8, 2014 -. "To the young

people I ask you to read,

read a lot. Nothing

makes a father more

proud than to see the

amount of books their

children read, "said Al-

fredo Dájer Abimerhi

today, president of the

Autonomous University

of Yucatan (UADY) at

the opening ceremony of

the Third Edition of the

International Fair of

Reading 2014 (FILEY by

its Spanish acronym)

which brought together

dozens of national and

foreign writers and intel-

lectuals as well as more

than 130 publishing

houses which together

offer more than 200

thousand books of all

genres.

To the authorities of the

three branches of govern-

ment, local council and

special guests as the

president of the National

Autonomous University

of Mexico (UNAM), Jo-

se Narro Robles and the

University of Guadalaja-

ra Tonatiuh Bravo Pa-

dilla and representatives

of the government of

Mexico City, the presi-

dent of the UADY said:

"Let's read today, read

novels, poems, short sto-

T h e T h i r d R e a d i n g F a i r s t a r t s w i t h a n

i n v i t a t i o n t o e m p l o y r e a d i n g t o

a d d r e s s r e a l i t y .

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“Lets read,

because a

society that

reads is a

society that

thinks…”

creditation to the degree pro-

gram of the Faculty of Dentis-

try at Autonomous University

of Yucatan (UADY by its

Spanish acronym) .

In front of the members of the

XV Council of UADY, the

president of the university Al-

Mérida , Yucatán, March 7,

2014 - . " Quality education in

general, and particularly

higher education is a social

priority and demand that the

educational authorities have a

duty to respond to as an essen-

tial process for the formation

of human resources that are

appropriate and consistent

with the economic, social ,

demographic, cultural and

cross-cultural transformations,

"said Maria Cristina Sifuentes

Valenzuela president of the

National Council for the

Teaching of Dentistry

(CONAEDO by its Spanish

acronym) here today, to deli-

ver the fourth consecutive ac-

fredo Dájer Abimerhi , as well

as students , teachers and re-

presentatives of state health,

professional associations and

civil associations Sifuentes

Valenzuela said that

"evaluation, with the purposes

of accreditation, is established

as an essential mechanism to

promote quality."

The event, held in the audito-

rium of the faculty, which in-

cidentally, was recently remo-

deled, was attended by mem-

bers of the University Council

of Professional Associations,

Medical Arbitration Commis-

sion and State Health Depart-

ment.

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