National Polytechnic Institute | |
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Instituto Politécnico Nacional | |
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Motto | La Técnica al Servicio de la Patria[1] |
Motto in English | The Technique to the Service of the Fatherland |
Established | 1 January 1936[2] |
Type | Public |
Dean | Jesús Ávila Galinzoga[3] |
Director | Yoloxóchitl Bustamante Díez[4] |
General Secretary | Juan Manuel Cantú Vázquez[5] |
Academic staff | 16.474[6] |
Students | 153.027[6] |
Undergraduates | 92.589[6] |
Postgraduates | 5.937[6] |
Other students | 54.501 (High school)[6] 136.985 (Continuing and distance education)[6] |
Location | Mexico City, Mexico |
Campus | Several across Mexico, mostly urban[7] |
Colors | Maroon and white |
Athletics | Burros Blancos (White Donkeys) Águilas Blancas (White Eagles) ONEFA Central Conference[8][9] |
Sports | 27 varsity teams[10] |
Nickname | Burros Blancos |
Mascot | White donkey[11] |
Affiliations | AMECYD,[12] ANUIES,[13] AUIP,[14] CLARA,[15] COMEPO,[16] CUDI,[17] ECOES,[18] OUI,[19] UDUAL,[20] Universia[21] |
Website | www.ipn.mx |
Faculty, students and organization data is for 2009.[6] High school students account for the difference between its total number of students and the sum of undegraduate and postgraduate students. |
The National Polytechnic Institute (in Spanish: Instituto Politécnico Nacional, IPN) colloquially known as the Polytechnic (el Politécnico) is one of the largest public universities in Mexico with 153.027 students[6] at the high school, undergraduate and postgraduate levels. It was founded on 1 January 1936 during the administration of President Lázaro Cárdenas del Río as a response to provide professional education to the most disadvantaged social classes in that historical period.[22]
The institute consists of 81 academic units offering 271 courses of study.[6] It includes 65 technical careers, 78 different undergraduate and 128 postgraduate programs.[6] Its main campus, called Unidad Profesional Adolfo López Mateos or Zacatenco, is situated on approximately 530 acres (2.1 km2) north Mexico City.[7]
The IPN is based primarily in Mexico City and its suburbs, but with several research institutes and facilities distributed over 17 different states.[6]
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The Institute was founded on January 1, 1936 during the administration of President Lázaro Cárdenas in what had been previously known as the Ex hacienda Santo Tomás; a large estate initially owned by Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés in the 16th century[22] and donated by the federal government.[23]
Prominent astronomer Luis Enrique Erro, former revolutionary Juan de Dios Bátiz Paredes and former minister of education Narciso Bassols were among its initial promoters.[23]
During the administration of former Director Alejo Peralta, were given to IPN sufficient lands. For this purpose, were expropriated lands of Santa Maria Ticomán (213 ha) and San Pedro Zacatenco (43 ha).[7]
In 1958 began the construction of what is now the Professional Unit "Adolfo López Mateos" (Zacatenco). In 1959, former President Adolfo López Mateos, the former minister of education Jaime Torres Bodet, and former director of IPN Eugenio Mendez Docurro, inaugurated the first four buildings of Zacatenco, which were occupied by the Superior School of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering (ESIME) and the Superior School of Engineering and Architecture (ESIA).[7]
The Institute is organized around 81 academic units[6] including 16 vocational high schools (operates as CECyT), 26 university colleges, 20 scientific and technical research centers, 12 continuing education centers, 2 support units for educational innovation, 2 development support units and business development and 3 Learning Support Units, located primarily in Mexico City, although several extension and research facilities are distributed over 17 different states.[6]
Some units (particularly the semi-autonomous, internationally renowned CINVESTAV) enjoy a high degree of academic and budgetary freedom. The Institute as a whole is headed by a Director-general appointed by the President of Mexico, usually (but not always) after some consultation with members of its academic community.[24] Since 2009 its Director-general is Yoloxóchitl Bustamante Díez.
In addition its academic endeavors, and as part of its cultural promotion strategy, the Institute operates Once TV México, the oldest public broadcast service in Latin America[25] featuring original cultural, scientific, and entertainment programming, foreign shows and classic, rare, and non-commercial films from all over the world.
The Institute offers 78 undergraduate programs[6] leading to four or five-years bachelor degrees and 128 postgraduate programs[6] leading to 26 postgraduate diplomas,[6] 70 master's degrees[6] and 32 doctorate degrees.[6]
Like most public universities in the country, in addition to its undergraduate and graduate schools the Institute sponsors several vocational high schools called Centros de Estudios Científicos y Tecnológicos, C.E.C. y T., most of which are located in Greater Mexico City. Upon completion, they lead to a technician degree. For this level of study, the institute offers 65 technical careers.[6]
The polytechnic fields a total 27 varsity teams in various sports or activities such as archery, american football, athletics, baseball, basketball, body building, bowling, boxing, chess, cycling, frontenis, gymnastics, handball, indoor soccer, judo, karate, kendo, mountaineering, rowing, soccer, swimming, taekwondo, tennis, touch football, volleyball, weightlifting and wrestling. [10]
The university maintains a fierce rivalry with all the athletic teams from the National Autonomous University of Mexico but have a particularly bitter competition with its football program, the "Pumas Dorados" (Golden Pumas).
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