Talk:Fundación Universidad de las Américas, Puebla

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The articles might be referring to two different institutions. "Universidad de las Américas, A.C." is a different institution, a small college located at Mexico City.

Let me elaborate. The Universidad de las Américas (UDLA) was founded with the name "Mexico City College" in 1940 (and was located, as the name suggests, in Mexico City). Eventually, the name was changed to "University of the Americas", and later to its Spanish version, Universidad de las Américas, in the 60's. Also, the university, with aid from the Jenkins Foundation (who have supported the university ever since its creation), and the International Development Agency, moved to its new (and much, much bigger) campus at Puebla in the late 60's.

In the early 80's (1984-1985), a handful of deans and teachers of the Universidad de las Américas renounced their positions and created the Universidad de las Américas, A.C. (UDLA, A.C.) in Mexico City, at the old facilities of Mexico City College (which had been abandonded after the university moved to the new campus). While it was a matter of huge controversy, this new university took the same name and the coat of arms of the UDLA (even though they created a new coat of arms recently), and claims to be the succesor of Mexico City College (in fact they added that title to their new coat of arms).

The university in Puebla, which is still known in and outside of Mexico simply as the Universidad de las Américas, continued to operate as usual, with the support of the Jenkins Foundation, but after the dispute it is officially registered as Fundación Universidad de las Américas, Puebla, (UDLA, Puebla), mainly to dinstinguish itself from the new university at Mexico City. UDLA, Puebla is the university that still belongs to SACS and the one that is ranked among the top five universities in Mexico, not the UDLA, A.C.

UDLA, A.C. is still a very small college (offering only 7 undergrad programs and 3 masters); the facilities of Mexico City College were very small and thus the growth of the institution has been limited.

By the way, if you take the GRE and want your scores to be sent to the Universidad de las Américas (as it is printed on the GRE's houndout), they will be sent to Puebla, not to the UDLA, A.C. at Mexico City. --J.Alonso 22:36, 15 July 2005 (UTC)

Both institutions are completely different. Albeit they share a common origin, currently they have no relationship but the name. So they should be kept on separate articles. I am a former UDLA-P student and I can affirm that both institutions are no longer related in any way. For that reason is that Universidad de las Américas added Puebla at the end to differenciate themselves --Threner 04:28, 16 July 2005 (UTC)

Seeing that there is no more comments, I will remove the merge notice --Threner 04:46, 18 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Mexico City College history

For "The Mexico City College Story: The History 1940-1963," go to www.mexicocitycollege.com