Universidad Iberoamericana

The Ibero-American University (in Spanish: Universidad Iberoamericana, abbreviated UIA but frequently accepted as Ibero) is one of the a lot of celebrated universities in Mexico and in Latin America. The clandestine academy of college apprenticeship is sponsored by the Association of Jesus, and it is accustomed as accepting an international-grade akin of excellence. In 2009, the UIA accustomed the SEP-ANUIES Prize as the best clandestine university in Mexico. The Ibero's flagship campus is amid in the Santa Fe commune of Mexico City, and added campuses are amid in Guadalajara, León, Torreón, Puebla, and Playas de Tijuana.

Its capital library, Biblioteca Francisco Xavier Clavigero, holds added than 400,000 books and journals and as of 2007 is one of the better university libraries in the country. It aswell has one of the better law libraries in Mexico,

History
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The university was founded in 1943 as a Jesuit academy by the Catholic hierarchy, but with cogent aid of the abbey of the National Autonomous University of Mexico, Rodolfo Brito Foucher. Brito Foucher, a advocate and arch of UNAM's law adroitness afore acceptable rector, was of the assessment that this was not adverse to the Constitution of 1917's prohibition of Catholic captivation in education, back the commodity did not specify college apprenticeship but alone primary and secondary. A key accumulation in the founding of Ibero was above apprentice activists from the Jesuit-directed Unión Nacional de Estudiantes Católicos (UNEC). The founding came at a time if church-state relations in Mexico had bigger over the backward 1920s during the Cristero War and the 1930s if the government attempted to apparatus apprenticeship against socialism in the Mexican universities.

Originally alleged Centro Cultural Universitario, afterwards ten years the Ibero grew into a all-encompassing university due to the advocacy of the business association which donated funds for architecture the campus and for guaranteeing loans as the university was getting established. If the Mexican abridgement broadcast during the 1940s to 1960s, Ibero-trained professionals who entered the clandestine sector, abounding of the above leaders of the UNEC served on the University's lath of trustees. Ibero had the aim of announcement Catholic ability and of training elites to yield arch roles in Mexican society. Ibero has accomplished a amount of acknowledged businessmen and politicians, including the acknowledged presidential applicant of the National Action Party (Mexico), Vicente Fox.

The Association of Jesus has from its alpha in the 16th aeon been a baton in humanistic education.If Jesuits accomplished New Spain in 1572, their religious and educational alacrity led them to actualize acclaimed teaching and analysis centers – such as the colleges of St. Ildefonso, Vizcainas, and St. Peter and St. Paul, to acknowledgment a few of the celebrated institutions of that time. The Ibero is allotment of a arrangement of 8 Jesuit universities amid in assorted Mexican cities which, in turn, are allotment of 31 Jesuit universities and colleges in Latin American and some 200 worldwide.