Culture and the Role of Women in a Latin American University: The Case of the University of Costa Rica

2018 ◽  
pp. 99-124
Author(s):  
Susan B. Twombly
Keyword(s):  
Costa Rica ◽  
Latin American ◽  
American University ◽  
Role Of Women ◽  
The University

Latin America's Need for Regional Research Centers

1967 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
Felipe Herrera
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Regional Research ◽  
Development Bank ◽  
American University ◽  
The Republic ◽  
The University ◽  
Powerful Incentive

The degree conferred upon me by the University of America with the concurrence of the 24 universities of the Republic of Colombia is a powerful incentive to the work of the Inter-American Development Bank in the field of higher education and research in Latin America. You will forgive me, then, if I take this occasion to mention the role of the Inter-American Bank as the “Bank of the Latin American University,” a role which has placed it in the vanguard of an impressive process of international cooperation for the modernization and decisive expansion of higher education in the Hemisphere. The $55 million it has loaned to 71 institutions in 17 countries bear eloquent testimony to an abiding preoccupation of the Bank in its brief years of existence.

Leadership Training in Latin America

1993 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-17
Author(s):  
Alice B. Lentz
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Leadership Training ◽  
Developing Economies ◽  
Business Leaders ◽  
Private Higher Education ◽  
Enterprise Growth ◽  
The University ◽  
Latin American Countries

Alice Lentz offers a brief view of the role of the Americas Fund for Independent Universities (AFIU) in relation to significant initiatives in various Latin American countries. In a region where the function and development of private higher education institutions is especially important, the focus of the AFIU's activities is on private universities' ability to provide trained business leaders with the skills necessary to meet the challenges of enterprise growth in these developing economies. She mentions in particular the strengthening of financing capabilities within the university, and the evolution of three-way partnerships among business corporations, AFIU, and universities in Latin America.

The Role of Women in the Development of New Religious Movements in Latin America

2021 ◽  
pp. 346-364
Author(s):  
Angel Belzunegui Eraso ◽  
David Dueñas Cid
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Social Cohesion ◽  
Religious Movements ◽  
New Religious Movements ◽  
Religious Plurality ◽  
New Religions ◽  
Role Of Women ◽  
Latin American Countries

In this chapter we focus on the growth of “new religions” and new religious movements in Latin America and attempt to find explanations for this growth. Although other explanations for the increase in religious plurality exist, we focus on the role of women in this development. The expansion of movements such as Pentecostalism is challenging the centrality of Catholicism in many Latin American countries. Basically, we therefore aim to answer the following question: Why has Pentecostalism grown so much in some Latin American countries while Catholicism has experienced a certain decline? One possible explanation for this is the role of women in this expansion, which has fostered greater social cohesion within families and communities. Pentecostalism has led to a certain empowerment of the women living in precarious conditions, affording them greater visibility and importance within their communities and giving them a role in the re-education of behaviours that are rooted in male domination.

The Role of Women in the Development of New Religious Movements in Latin America

2016 ◽  
pp. 224-247
Author(s):  
Angel Belzunegui Eraso ◽  
David Dueñas Cid
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Social Cohesion ◽  
Religious Movements ◽  
New Religious Movements ◽  
Religious Plurality ◽  
New Religions ◽  
Role Of Women ◽  
Latin American Countries

In this chapter we focus on the growth of “new religions” and new religious movements in Latin America and attempt to find explanations for this growth. Although other explanations for the increase in religious plurality exist, we focus on the role of women in this development. The expansion of movements such as Pentecostalism is challenging the centrality of Catholicism in many Latin American countries. Basically, we therefore aim to answer the following question: Why has Pentecostalism grown so much in some Latin American countries while Catholicism has experienced a certain decline? One possible explanation for this is the role of women in this expansion, which has fostered greater social cohesion within families and communities. Pentecostalism has led to a certain empowerment of the women living in precarious conditions, affording them greater visibility and importance within their communities and giving them a role in the re-education of behaviours that are rooted in male domination.

scholarly journals Is There a Latin American University Model?

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andres Bernasconi
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Research Universities ◽  
Normative Influence ◽  
American University ◽  
American Universities ◽  
Latin American Universities ◽  
The University ◽  
Idea Of The University

Postindependence Latin American universities developed during the 19th and most of the 20th century largely under the normative influence of a Latin American idea of the university institution. In the last few decades, factors both related to the development of higher education and external to it have combined to challenge the clout of that model. As a result, notwithstanding the persistence of elements of the old paradigm, the model of the Latin American university is now related chiefly to US research universities.

Students and the Political System of the University of Buenos Aires

1966 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 633-656 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ronald C. Newton
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
Political System ◽  
Buenos Aires ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
The Political ◽  
Student Group ◽  
American University ◽  
High Incidence ◽  
National University ◽  
The University

The National University of Buenos Aires, the largest and for many years the most prestigious in Latin America, is today more commonly taken as the archetype of the political Latin American university—and the connotations of “political” are wholly pejorative. This notoriety may be due in part, as Kalman Silvert suggests, to the high visibility of the University, especially to touring North American newsmen. Nevertheless, as its numerous critics allege, there seems to be abundant evidence to link politics to the manifest disarray of the educational process: in the well-publicized brawls among contending student factions and confrontations between demonstrators and the police, student strikes in opposition to procedural reforms desirable on grounds of efficiency, the reputed “terrorization” of heterodox professors, several student homicides in recent years, the distressingly high incidence of abandonos (for it is assumed, erroneously, that many withdrawals from the University are motivated by disgust with its politics); student political behavior as in the abusive reception tendered W. W. Rostow by a student group in Economic Sciences in February 1965, may have international repercussions. Such depressing phenomena have led even temperate and knowledgeable observers to speak of the “failure” of the University, and to call for a thoroughgoing structural overhaul, conducive, among other things, to depoliticization.

scholarly journals Latin american university videos and cultural, scientific and economic development

Comunicar ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 13 (25) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jenny Bustamante-Newball
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Latin American ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Cultural Development ◽  
Scientific Development ◽  
Development Economic ◽  
American University ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
The University ◽  
Year 2000

This paper is the product of the author’s five year continued experience in the teaching of journalism in the classes of TV Production (third year of the career), Audiovisual Journalism (fourth year) Writing and Realization of Scripts for TV (fifth year) at the University of Los Andes in Venezuela, based on the reform and revision accomplished during the year 2000 of the programs of three subjects in which three fundamental axes were used: the performance of productions associated to the three mentions of the career of Social Communication at the university of Los Andes (Scientific Development, Economic Development, and Cultural Development), the incorporation of New Technologies of Information and Communication (TIC) for the production and digital postproduction of videotapes, and the annual organization of a festival (EXPOVISUAL), aimed at the public in general for which the students elaborate special productions.Este trabajo es producto de la sistematización de la experiencia de cinco años de la autora en la formación de comunicadores sociales en la Universidad de Los Andes (Venezuela) en las cátedras Producción de Televisión (tercer año de la carrera), Periodismo Audiovisual (cuarto año) y Escritura y Realización de Guiones (asignatura optativa del quinto año) a partir de la reforma y revisión anual desde el 2000 de los programas de estas asignaturas sobre tres ejes fundamentales: la realización de producciones que respondan a las tres menciones que tiene esta carrera universitaria en la institución indicada (Comunicación para el desarrollo científico, Comunicación para el desarrollo económico y Comunicación para el desarrollo cultural), la incorporación de las tecnologías de la información y la comunicación (TIC) para la producción y postproducción digital de los vídeos, y la organización anual de un festival universitario (EXPOVISUAL), dirigido al público, en general, para el cual los alumnos de las cátedras elaboran producciones especiales. A los efectos del mencionado festival y de la combinación satisfactoria de los tres aspectos mencionados, se les ha planteado a los estudiantes de Producción en Televisión la adaptación de cuentos latinoamericanos breves. Ello ha resultado no solo en una forma de incentivarlos a la lectura crítica de estos textos a los fines de seleccionarlos sobre la base de su idea temática (reflejo de nuestros valores, miedos, preocupaciones, deseos y nuestras necesidades), sino también en una manera de difundir parte de nuestro acervo literario regional y de utilizar la narrativa latinoamericana contemporánea con fines instrumentales (estudio de los contenidos temáticos, procedimentales y actitudinales vinculados con la enseñanza y el aprendizaje de la televisión). Los alumnos de Periodismo Audiovisual trabajan con el género informativo, específicamente, con micros, reportajes especiales y documentales cortos para fomentar o reflejar el desarrollo regional desde la óptica científica, económica y cultural. A los estudiantes de Escritura y Realización de Guiones se les propone la producción de mensajes institucionales sobre valores humanos universales. Como principales resultados se encuentran la creación y realización de cinco ediciones de EXPOVISUAL, el conocimiento teórico-práctico de la totalidad del proceso de producción audiovisual por parte de los alumnos y el mejoramiento de la calidad de los vídeos gracias a las TIC, y la creación de un festival binacional universitario (EXPOVISUAL DE LA FRONTERA) con el apoyo del Consulado de Venezuela en el Departamento Norte de Santander (Colombia), actividad que aparte de estimular el intercambio de visiones y producciones de las cátedras de televisión de dos universidades ubicadas en la frontera colombo-venezolana (la Universidad de Pamplona y la Universidad de Los Andes), más recientemente (2005) ha resultado en el planteamiento de un proyecto académico para la coproducción de un documental.

scholarly journals Open innovation from the university to local enterprises: conditions, complexities, and challenges

Telos ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 692-709
Author(s):  
Lorena del Carmen Álvarez-Castañón ◽  
Rafael Palacios-Bustamante
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Open Innovation ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
Academic Community ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Innovation Ecosystem ◽  
American University ◽  
The University ◽  
Innovation Policies

The paper aimed to analyze the open innovation model from the Latin-American public university and the main factors that influence it. The interaction between the university with its ecosystem, its innovation and technology management, the profile of the academic community, and innovation policies were studied. The research methodology had a qualitative approach. And the process was integrated into three phases to identify the categories of open innovation, categorized the interaction between the university with the innovation ecosystem in four Mexican public universities, and triangulate the Latin-American behavior through semi-structured interviews to six academics. The main findings showed that open innovation is a feasible platform to link the Latin-American University with local enterprises despite the peculiar heterogeneous and unequal context of the ecosystem; furthermore, four collaborative flows between the university and the ecosystem were identified –inside, outside, mixed and hybrid-. In conclusion, the interdisciplinary approach, the techno-institutional networks, and the institutional policy influence open innovation from the university to the ecosystem, where the academic community is a mediator variable. Finally, it is highlighted that new re-institutionalization of innovation policies based on digital transformation and environmental sustainability are required; thus, Latin-American Schools of Innovation Taught are needed to encourage them.

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