Central University of Venezuela
Universidad Central de Venezuela | |
Motto | La Casa que Vence la Sombra (Spanish, "The house that defeats the shadow") |
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Type | Public |
Established | December 22, 1721 | (Universidad Real y Pontificia de Caracas)
Rector | Víctor Rago Albujas[1][2] |
Academic staff | 5,176[3] |
Administrative staff | 9,778[3] |
Students | 41,059[4] |
Location | , |
Campus | World Heritage Site, Urban, 1.642 km² |
Website | ucv.ve |
The Central University of Venezuela (Spanish: Universidad Central de Venezuela; UCV) is a public university located in Caracas, Venezuela. The university is widely regarded as the highest ranking institution in the country. Founded in 1721, it is the oldest university in Venezuela and one of the oldest in the Western Hemisphere. It is ranked 18th among the universities in Latin America.[5]
The main university campus,
History
Origins
The origin of the university goes back to
Republican years
Until the end of the 18th century, the official papal and royal censorship on books was largely ignored in Venezuela, a situation which allowed the smuggling of the works by
The Royal constitution was displaced by the Republican Statutes proclaimed by Simón Bolívar on 24 June 1827. The new statutes gave the institution a secular character and transferred the main authority to the Rector.
20th century
In December 1908, dictator Juan Vicente Gómez came into power with a coup d'état against the government of Cipriano Castro. Gómez stayed in power until his death in 1935 and during this time, having ambivalent feelings about the purpose of educating free minds when he could hire foreigners to exercise any technical requirements for the nation, decided to close the university from 1912 to 1922. When it reopened, the Rector Felipe Guevara Rojas had reorganized the traditional division of only a few schools, separating them into departments.
1928 became a very important year for the university when a group of students, known as the Generation of 1928, organized events during the "Students Week" protesting the dictatorship which culminated in an attempt to overthrow Gómez on 7 April of that year. This group, which shared a common front against Gómez, was conformed by people like Rómulo Betancourt, Miguel Otero Silva, Juan Oropeza, Isaac Pardo and Rodolfo Quintero. Most of them were jailed after the events or went into exile without being able to finish their studies.
The university continued to be at the forefront of the democratization of the country when in 1936, then President Eleazar López Contreras, ordered a decree suspending the Constitutional rights and declaring a general censorship of the press because the oil workers decided to start a strike (an unprecedented deed at the time). The rector of the university, Francisco Antonio Rísquez, led the protest that followed through the streets of Caracas against the policies of López Contreras.
By 1942, the student population had been growing steadily for decades without any significant expansion of the university. Instead several schools, like Medicine, were moved to other buildings around the city. The administration of President Isaías Medina Angarita felt the need to move the university to a larger and more modern location where it could function as coherent whole. The government bought the Hacienda Ibarra and the responsibility of the main design was given to the architect Carlos Raúl Villanueva after a visit to the University City of Bogotá convinced the authorities of the Ministry of Public Works that, in order to avoid constructing a group of heterogeneous buildings, the design should be under one architect.
The new campus was going to become a vast urban complex of about 200 hectares and included 40 buildings. Villanueva worked with 28 avant-garde artists of the time, from Venezuela and the rest of the world, to build what continues to be one of the most successful applications of
In 1958, after the fall of dictator
In terms of the academic development of the modern university, the second half of the 20th century was a time when the Central University's faculty body benefited greatly from the influx of European immigrants. Many intellectuals settled in Venezuela after the end of the Spanish Civil War and World War II and found jobs at the university. Those scientists and humanists helped develop lines of research and teaching at the university and educated many of the present generation of faculty members.
Organization and degrees
The university is organized into 11 schools (Facultades) which are subdivided into 40 departments (Escuelas).
All schools offer undergraduate degrees at the level of
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- Humanities and Education[12]
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- Law and Government[13]
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- Medicine[14]
- Social Sciences and Economy[15]
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- Veterinary[18]
Research ranking
The Ranking Iberoamericano de Instituciones de Investigacion based on the Institute for Scientific Information ranked the Central University of Venezuela as the most productive research institution in the country and as the 20th most productive in Latin America.[19] Other top 25 positions were reached in the following areas:
- 8th in Law[20]
- 10th in Social Sciences[21]
- 12th in Psychology and Education[22]
- 15th in Physiology and Pharmacology[23]
- 16th in Philology and Philosophy[24]
- 16th in Food technology[25]
- 18th in Mathematics[26]
- 18th in Medicine[27]
- 21st in Plant and Animal Biology[28]
- 21st in History and Art[29]
- 22nd in Architecture and Civil Engineering[30]
- 22nd Molecular Biology[31]
The 2010 University Ranking by Academic Performance (URAP),[32] ranked the UCV as the best university in Venezuela and 805th university in the world.
The 2016 QS World University Rankings placed the UCV as 18th overall in their Latin American Universities Ranking.[33]
Notable alumni
Humanists
- South American.
- Andrés Bello (1781–1865) Poet, lawmaker, philosopher, educator and philologist.
- Sylvia Constantinidis (1962) Pianist, composer, conductor, music educator, author, writer. (Original name: Maria Silvia Castillo Casanova Arismendi de Constantinidis).
- Juan Germán Roscio (1763–1821) Lawyer, main redactor of the Venezuelan Declaration of Independence.
- Andrés Eloy Blanco (1896–1955) Poet.
- El Nacional.
- María Teresa Castillo (1908–2012) Journalist, activist, politician and founder of Caracas Athenaeum.
- Alberto Barrera Tyszka (1960) Writer.
Scientists
- Marisol Aguilera (1971) researcher, professor.
- José Gregorio Hernández (1864–1919) physician.
- José González-Lander (1933–2000) engineer, chief designer of the Caracas Metro.
- Livia Gouverneur (1941 - 1961) murdered psycology student
- Alfredo Jahn (1867–1940) engineer, anthropologist.
- Manuel Núñez Tovar (1878–1925) naturalist, researcher, parasitologist and entomologist.
- Luis Razetti (1862–1932) physician.
- Rafael Villavicencio (1832–1920) physician.
Politicians
- Carlos Benito Figueredo (1857–1935) journalist, politician and diplomat.
- Alexis Navarro (1946–2016), Governor of Nueva Esparta (2000–2004)[34]
- 1999 Venezuelan Constitution and mayor of Caracas(2000).
- MASand current chief editor of the newspaper "Tal Cual".
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- 2017 Constituent National Assembly.
- Irene Sáez (born 1961) mayor of Chacao, Governor of Nueva Esparta and Miss Universe 1981.
- Henrique Capriles (born 1972) former presidential candidate who has held many high offices
- Juan Requesens (born 1989) National Assembly deputy for the State of Táchira, Primero Justicia leader
Businessmen
- Lorenzo Mendoza Fleury (1897–1969) founder of Empresas Polar, a prize in his name honors scientific research.
- Carlos Eduardo Stolk (1912–1995) founding member and representative of the United Nations for Venezuela as well as president and chairman of the board of Empresas Polar.
- Eladio Lárez (born 1941) ex-president of Radio Caracas Television.
- Miguel Enrique Otero (born 1950) mathematician, (also faculty for five years) chairman and owner of the newspaper El Nacional.
Presidents of Venezuela
- José María Vargas, (also rector, faculty and alumnus) scientist (1835–36).
- Andrés Narvarte, lawyer (1836–37).
- Pedro Gual Escandon, lawyer (1859, 1861).
- Guillermo Tell Villegas, lawyer (1868–69, 1870, 1892).
- Guillermo Tell Villegas Pulido, lawyer (1892).
- Antonio Guzmán Blanco, lawyer (1879–1884).
- Raimundo Andueza Palacio, lawyer (1890–1892).
- José Gil Fortoul, political scientist (1913–1914).
- Juan Bautista Pérez, lawyer (1929–1931).
- Rómulo Betancourt, (did not finish) (1945–1948).
- Rómulo Gallegos, (did not finish) writer (1948).
- Germán Suárez Flamerich, (also Faculty) lawyer (1950–52).
- Edgar Sanabria, (also Faculty) lawyer (1959).
- Raúl Leoni, (did not finish) (1964–1969).
- Rafael Caldera, (also Faculty) political scientist (1969–1974), (1994–1999).
- Carlos Andrés Pérez, (did not finish) (1974–1979), (1989–1993).
- Luis Herrera Campins, (did not finish) (1979–1984).
- Jaime Lusinchi, physician (1984–1989).
- Ramón José Velásquez,(also Faculty) historian (1993–94).
Medicine
- Fernando Valarino Hernández, Phd in Medicine, Psychiatrist, President and Vice President of the Universidad Central de Venezuela (1984-1985)
- América González, (differed student)
Notable faculty
18th century
- Lorenzo Campins y Ballester (1726–1785) Spanish born scientist, founder of the studies of medicine.
- Fr. for teaching doctrines forbidden by the King.
19th century
- Juan Manuel Cagigal (1803–1856) mathematician.
- Alejandro Chataing (1873–1928) (also alumnus) mathematician, architect.
- Agustin Codazzi(1793–1859) Italian military, scientist and geographer
- Domenico Milano (1810–1880) Italian agronomist engineer, started in 1843 the Faculty of Agronomy ("Escuela Normal de Agricultura").
- Fermín Toro (1806–1865) politician and linguist.
- Alejandro Ibarra (1813–1880) scientist.
- José Gregorio Hernández (1864–1919) (also alumnus) physician, began the teaching of Microbiology in Venezuela.
- Lamarck.
- Luis Razetti (1862–1932) (also alumnus) physician, began the teaching of modern surgery in Venezuela and wrote an influential code of ethics for the practice of medicine.
20th century
Humanities
- Abraham Abreu (born 1939) pianist and harpsichordist.
- Mario Briceño Iragorry (1897–1958) writer.
- José Balza (born 1939) novelist, critic.
- Rafael Cadenas (born 1930) poet.
- Manuel Caballero (1931–2010) (also alumnus) historian, journalist.
- Alejo Carpentier (1904–1980) writer, musicologist, journalist.
- Isaac Chocrón (1930–2011) economist and theater writer. Director of the School of Arts.
- Nicolas Curiel (born 1931) writer and director of theater.
- Gustavo Herrera (1890–1953) lawyer and diplomat.
- Gaston Diehl (1912–1999) French art historian, recipient of the Academy Award for Live Action Short Film in 1950.
- Juan David García Bacca (1901–1992) Spanish born philosopher; translator of the complete works of Plato.
- Gertrude Goldschmidt(1912–1994) German born artist.
- Joaquín Gabaldón Márquez (1906–1984) lawyer and diplomat.
- Ezra Heymann (born 1928) Romanian born philosopher.
- Martha Hildebrandt (born 1925) Peruvian linguist.
- Chibly Abouhamad Hobaica (1929–2005) lawyer, professor and writer
- Eugenio Imaz (1900–1951) Spanish born philosopher.
- Pedro Itriago Chacín (1875–1936), lawyer, historian.
- Margarita López Maya, historian, humanist.
- Ernesto Mayz Vallenilla (1925–2015) (also alumnus) philosopher, rector of the Universidad Simón Bolívar.
- Juan Nuño (1927–1995) (also alumnus) Spanish born philosopher.
- Luis Enrique Oberto (1928–2022) (also alumnus) Venezuelan banker and politician.
- Manuel García Pelayo (1909–1991) Spanish born political Scientist, elected president of the Constitutional Tribunal of Spain in 1980.
- Manuel Pérez Vila (1922–1991) Spanish born historian.
- Pedro Antonio Ríos Reyna (1905–1971) classical musician.
- Federico Riu (1925–1985) (also alumnus) Spanish born philosopher.
- Angel Rosenblat(1902–1984) Polish born philologist.
- Levy Rossell (born 1945) writer and director of theater.
- Mariano Picón Salas (1901–1965) writer, cultural critic.
- José Antonio Ramos Sucre (1890–1930) (also alumnus) poet, writer.
- Oscar Sambrano Urdaneta(1929–2011) writer, essayist and literary critic.
- Guillermo Sucre (1933–2021) (also alumnus) literary critic.
- Prince of Asturias Award (1990) and Rómulo Gallegos Prizefor Best Novel (1991).
- Modernists.
- Guillermo Tell Villegas Pulido (also alumnus), politician, writer and historian.
- Pedro León Zapata (1929–2015) artist and humorist.
Sciences
- Arístides Bastidas (1924–1992) journalist and scientist winner of the Kalinga Prize, was one of the pioneers of what is termed as "science journalism" in Venezuela.
- German Carnevali Fernandez-Concha (born 1955) botanist.
- Luis Eduardo Chataing (1906–1971) (also alumnus) mathematician.
- Julian Chela-Flores (born 1942) astrobiologist and physicist.
- Paul Dedecker (1927–2007) Belgian mathematician.
- Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1988 for his research on the cure of Leprosy.
- Francisco José Duarte (1883–1972) mathematician.
- Humberto Fernández Morán (1924–1999) contributed to the development of the electron microscopeand was the first researcher to introduce the concept of cryoultramicrotomy.
- Celso Fortoul Padrón (also alumnus) civil engineer and calculist of pre-tensate infraestructures.
- Arnoldo Gabaldon (1909–1990) physician, started the fight over tropical diseases as Malaria.
- Luis Alfredo Herrera Cometta, relativistic physicist. Professor Emeritus.
- Andras Kalnay, physicist.
- Werner Jaffé (1914–2009) founder of the National Institute of Nutrition. Studied under Nobel prize winner Paul Karrer.
- Tobías Lasser (1911–2006) (also alumnus) botanist, founder of the Botanical Garden of Caracas, the modern School of Sciences and the Department of Biology.
- bronchial asthma and myasthenia.
- Antonio Machado-Allison (b. 1945) ichthyologist.
- Francisco Mago Leccia (1931–2004) ichthyologist.
- Rafael Martínez Escarbassiere (born 1929) biologist
- Ettore Mazzarri (1919–2009) chemist specialist of Maracay Agronomy faculty
- Angel Palacio Gros (1903–1965) Spanish mathematician.
- August Pi i Sunyer (1879–1961) Physiologist Spanish born. Winner of the Kalinga Prize 1956.
- Carles Pi i Sunyer (1888–1971) Spanish born industrial engineer and literate
- Janis Rácenis (1915–1980) Latvia born entomologist.
- Ivón Mercedes Ramírez Morillo (born 1965) botanist.
- Gustavo Adolfo Romero-Gonzales (born 1955) botanist.
- Eckbert Schulz-Schomburgk (born 1921) chemist.
- Gustavo Rivas Mijares, sanitarist engineer.
- Third World Academy of Sciences.
- José Royo Gómez (1895–1961) Spanish geologist.
- Carlos Toro Manrique (1868–1937) (also alumnus) engineer, mathematician.
- Elías Toro (1871–1918) physician, anthropologist.
- Andre Zavrosky (1904–1995) Russian mathematician.
Rectors
18th century
19th century
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See also
- Central University of Venezuela rectorate takeover
- Tazón massacre
- Operación Canguro
- Education in Venezuela
- List of universities in Venezuela
- List of colonial universities in Latin America
References
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Cartographical references
- UNIVERSIDAD CENTRAL DE VENEZUELA. 1981: ""Plano de Ubicación de las obras de arte de la Ciudad Universitaria de Caracas"". Universidad Central de Venezuela. Caracas – Venezuela.
External links
- Universidad Central de Venezuela-Official Site
- UCV Central Administration
- UCV Foundation
- Consejo Nacional de Universidades de Venezuela (Spanish)
Aerial photos
- Aerial Photo from GoogleMaps
- The UCV is located at 10°29′18″N 66°53′27″W / 10.4884°N 66.8907°W