| El Colegio de México | |
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El Colegio de México |
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| Established | October 8, 1940 |
| Type | Public |
| Endowment | US$46.13 million (2011)[1] |
| President | Javier Garciadiego |
| Academic staff | 185[1] |
| Admin. staff | 538 |
| Students | 380 |
| Undergraduates | 77 total |
| Postgraduates | 294 |
| Location | Mexico City, D.F., Mexico |
| Campus | Urban |
| Colors | Crimson |
| Website | Colmex.mx |
El Colegio de México, A.C. (commonly known as Colmex, English: The College of Mexico) is a prestigious Mexican institute of higher education, specializing in teaching and research in social sciences and humanities. This Institution received the Prince of Asturias Award for Social Sciences in 2001. The library of El Colegio de Mexico (Biblioteca "Daniel Cosío Villegas") is one of the largest academic libraries in Mexico, and it contains one of the most important Latin American collections in social sciences and humanities.[2]
The college was founded in 1940 by the Mexican Federal Government, the Bank of Mexico (Banco de México), the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), and the Fondo de Cultura Económica. After the Spanish Civil War, the President of Mexico Lázaro Cardenas created The House of Spain in Mexico (1938–1940) to host the Spanish intellectuals in exile in that country. Under the direction of renowned intellectual Alfonso Reyes, the House of Spain became a higher education center, and was renamed El Colegio de México in 1940. The College now operates under a 1961 charter that allows the institution to provide college-level teaching in the fields of humanistic knowledge and social and political sciences. In 1976, the university's campus was moved from the Colonia Roma (a historic neighborhood of Mexico City) to its current location.[3]
The college encompasses seven separate academic centers, teaching a total of two degrees, seven master's degrees and eight doctorates. The campus is located in a purpose-built and architecturally striking building on the southern fringes of Mexico City, and it was designed by the prestigious mexican architect Teodoro González de León.
Contents |
| Alfonso Reyes | 1940–1958 |
| Daniel Cosío Villegas | 1958–1963 |
| Silvio Zavala | 1963–1966 |
| Víctor Luis Urquidi Bingham | 1966–1985 |
| Mario Ojeda Gómez | 1985–1994 |
| Andrés Lira | 1994–2005 |
| Francisco Javier Garciadiego Dantán | 2005–present |
It arose from an organization of Spaniard exiles called "Casa de España en México" (House of Spain in Mexico). In march 1939, Lazaro Cardenas named Alfonso Reyes to the presidentship of the "Casa de España en México". Reyes would be president of the "Colegio" until his death. Historian Daniel Cosío Villegas played an important role in its institutionalization and the Colegio's library bears his name.
Prominent scholars and intellectuals have been among the faculty of the various centers, such as Alfonso Reyes, Daniel Cosío Villegas, Jorge Fernández, Mario Ojeda Gómez, Víctor Urquidi and Rafael Segovia Canosa. For 2010, from a total of 185 faculty and staff members, 92% were affiliated with the National System of Researchers (abbreviated as SNI, in Spanish) of the Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología (the National Council of Science and Technology of Mexico).[4]
Among the best-known faculty of El Colegio de México are Lorenzo Meyer, Mauricio Merino, Antonio Alatorre; political leaders Jesús Silva Herzog Flores, Carlos Tello Macías, Natividad González Parás, Porfirio Muñoz Ledo, Bernardo Sepúlveda; scholars Sergio Aguayo, Soledad Loaeza, Rodolfo Stavenhagen, Luis F. Aguilar Villanueva, Francisco Gil Villegas, Margit Frenk, Francisco Segovia, Saurabh Dube and the 2007 UN-HABITAT Lecture Award urbanist Martha Schteingart.
Among the people who have attended El Colegio de México are Mexican political leaders Marcelo Ebrard, current Head of Government of the Federal District; economist Jaime Serra Puche, cabinet member under the Carlos Salinas and Ernesto Zedillo administrations and Sócrates Rizzo, former Governor of Nuevo León; diplomats Patricia Espinosa, current Secretary of Foreign Affairs, Arturo Sarukhán, current Mexican ambassador to the United States, Claude Heller, current ambassador of Mexico to the UN, Adolfo Aguilar Zínser, former ambassador of Mexico to the UN Security Council and senator Rosario Green, Secretary of Foreign Affairs during the Zedillo administration; historian Enrique Krauze; writer Héctor Aguilar Camín; Secretary of State of the Mexican State of Nuevo Leon and former Senior Vice President of CEMEX Javier Trevino; political analyst and writer Denise Dresser; current president of Salisbury University in Salisbury, MD Janet Dudley-Eshbach; historian Andrés Reséndez; and narratologist Lauro Zavala.
| Undergraduate | Graduate | Professional | |
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| Men | 57% | 49% | 44% |
| Women | 43% | 51% | 56% |
| International Students | 4% | 12% | 30% |
For the 2010 academic year, El Colegio de México's student population was 371, with 17% of the student population born outside of Mexico. Colmex enrolled 77 students in undergraduate programs, 156 students in graduate programs, and 138 students in doctoral programs.[4]
Undergraduate and graduate admission to Colmex is very selective.[4] El Colegio de Mexico received 1,075 applications for admission to the Class of 2014 and 156 were admitted (14%). 87% of students graduate within 4 years.[4]