Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León
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The Autonomous University of Nuevo León is a public university
Public university
A public university is a university that is predominantly funded by public means through a national or subnational government, as opposed to private universities. A national university may or may not be considered a public university, depending on regions...

 with seven campuses across the Northern state of Nuevo León
Nuevo León
Nuevo León It is located in Northeastern Mexico. It is bordered by the states of Tamaulipas to the north and east, San Luis Potosí to the south, and Coahuila to the west. To the north, Nuevo León has a 15 kilometer stretch of the U.S.-Mexico border adjacent to the U.S...

, Mexico
Mexico
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. Founded as University of Nuevo León on 25 September 1933, it is the oldest and largest university in the state in terms of student population and it is currently headquartered in San Nicolás de los Garza
San Nicolás de los Garza
San Nicolás de los Garza, sometimes known only as San Nicolás, is a city and coextensive municipality in the Mexican state of Nuevo León that is part of the Monterrey Metropolitan area. It has become primarily a city for residencies and family houses, although it still has several factories that...

, a suburb of Monterrey
Monterrey
Monterrey , is the capital city of the northeastern state of Nuevo León in the country of Mexico. The city is anchor to the third-largest metropolitan area in Mexico and is ranked as the ninth-largest city in the nation. Monterrey serves as a commercial center in the north of the country and is the...

.

Foundation

The immediate forerunner of this public university dates back to 1859, when the Civil Academy (Colegio Civil) started its courses. This institution
Institution
An institution is any structure or mechanism of social order and cooperation governing the behavior of a set of individuals within a given human community...

 had been envisioned by Governor
Governor of Nuevo León
The Mexican state of Nuevo León has been governed by more than a hundred individuals in its history, who have had various titles and degrees of responsibility depending on the prevailing political regime of the time....

 Santiago Vidaurri
Santiago Vidaurri
José Santiago Vidarrui was a controversial and powerful governor of the Mexican state of Nuevo León between 1855 and 1864. His tenure was marked by secessionist ambitions and an unparalleled commerce with the Confederate States of America...

 but was erected by his successor, José Silvestre Aramberri, after the former was removed from office. The academy began to sponsor the Pharmacy and Medicine courses José Eleuterio González
José Eleuterio González
Jose Eleuterio Gonzalez Mendoza was born on the 20th of February 1813 in the city of Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico. His father was Matías Gonzalez, an officer of the Royalist Army and his mother was Josefa Mendoza de Gonzalez When Gonzalez Mendoza was 5 years old his father was killed in the...

 had been teaching at the local Hospital of the Rosary for several decades. The academic offerings included courses in Law and Medicine, as well as a preparatory school
University-preparatory school
A university-preparatory school or college-preparatory school is a secondary school, usually private, designed to prepare students for a college or university education...

. Its first director was José de Jesús Dávila y Prieto.

On 29 October 1932, the delegations of the state schools of Law, Medicine and Pharmacy; the Civil Academy and the normal school
Normal school
A normal school is a school created to train high school graduates to be teachers. Its purpose is to establish teaching standards or norms, hence its name...

, submitted a project to the Congress of Nuevo León
Congress of Nuevo León
The Congress of the State of Nuevo León is the legislative branch of the government of the Mexican state of Nuevo León. The congress is the governmental deliberative body of Nuevo León, which is equal to, and independent of, the executive...

 to organize a state university for the Monterrey Metropolitan area
Monterrey Metropolitan area
The Monterrey metropolitan area refers to the surrounding urban agglomeration of Monterrey, Nuevo Leon. Officially called Area Metropolitana de la Ciudad de Monterrey or AMM, the metropolitan area is the 3rd-largest such area in Mexico....

. On 7 November 1932, the state congress ordered to proceed with the request and on 25 September 1933 the University of Nuevo León was born.

In its first year, 1,864 students were schooled by 218 professors from the faculties of Medicine, Law, Engineering, and Chemistry, the Normal School, a preparatory school, the School of Nurses and Obstetricians and the Álvaro Obregón and Pablo Livas Industrial Schools. The institution became plagued with political disputes and almost two years later, on 25 September 1935, it was closed by state decree, only to reopen almost eight years later, on 13 September 1943.

Expansion

The number of faculty and personnel began to grow and this prompted the construction of its own campus in 1958, the University City (Ciudad Universitaria), an academic complex located in San Nicolás de los Garza
San Nicolás de los Garza
San Nicolás de los Garza, sometimes known only as San Nicolás, is a city and coextensive municipality in the Mexican state of Nuevo León that is part of the Monterrey Metropolitan area. It has become primarily a city for residencies and family houses, although it still has several factories that...

, a suburb to the state capital. In 1967, its open-air stadium
Estadio Universitario
The Estadio Universitario – nicknamed El Volcán is a stadium property of the Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, located in its premises in San Nicolás de los Garza, Nuevo León in Mexico.-Sports:...

 was finished. From 1968 to 1972, the University was hit once again by student protests and political disputes, and by 1971 the protests had forced the government to stop from interfering in its internal affairs and recognize a statute of autonomy
Autonomous university
The term "autonomous university" typically refers to a university which exercises independent control over its day to day operations and curriculum....

 that became part of its current name: Autonomous University of Nuevo León (Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León).

In the late 1990s the institution saw the necessity to rent its professional football (soccer)
Football (soccer)
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...

 team, which has maintained in the Mexican professional league (Tigres de la UANL), and was later affected by a corruption scandal that involved its own rector but ended with no legal consequences for those accused.

Campuses

The university has seven campuses across the state:

  • University City (Ciudad Universitaria) in San Nicolás de los Garza
    San Nicolás de los Garza
    San Nicolás de los Garza, sometimes known only as San Nicolás, is a city and coextensive municipality in the Mexican state of Nuevo León that is part of the Monterrey Metropolitan area. It has become primarily a city for residencies and family houses, although it still has several factories that...

    , which houses thirteen faculty schools; a 43,150-seat, open air stadium
    Estadio Universitario
    The Estadio Universitario – nicknamed El Volcán is a stadium property of the Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, located in its premises in San Nicolás de los Garza, Nuevo León in Mexico.-Sports:...

    ; its two main libraries, computer labs, cafeterias and the main bookstore.
  • Agricultural and Animal Sciences Campus, in Escobedo, houses a local branch of both the Agronomy
    Agronomy
    Agronomy is the science and technology of producing and using plants for food, fuel, feed, fiber, and reclamation. Agronomy encompasses work in the areas of plant genetics, plant physiology, meteorology, and soil science. Agronomy is the application of a combination of sciences like biology,...

     and Veterinary Medicine
    Veterinary medicine
    Veterinary Medicine is the branch of science that deals with the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of disease, disorder and injury in non-human animals...

     faculty schools, a center for research and development in food sciences (CIDIA) and a center for business development.
  • Health Sciences Campus, in Monterrey
    Monterrey
    Monterrey , is the capital city of the northeastern state of Nuevo León in the country of Mexico. The city is anchor to the third-largest metropolitan area in Mexico and is ranked as the ninth-largest city in the nation. Monterrey serves as a commercial center in the north of the country and is the...

    , housing the Dentistry, Medicine, Nursing, Psychology, Public Health and Nutrition faculty schools, along the University Hospital and a health clinic for its personnel.
  • Marin Campus in Marin
    Marín, Nuevo León
    Marín is a town and municipality located in the Mexican state of Nuevo León. the municipality was named in honor of Dr. Primo Feliciano Marin de Porras, Bishop of Linares. It has an area of 129 square kilometres territorial.-Geography:...

    , home of the Agronomy
    Agronomy
    Agronomy is the science and technology of producing and using plants for food, fuel, feed, fiber, and reclamation. Agronomy encompasses work in the areas of plant genetics, plant physiology, meteorology, and soil science. Agronomy is the application of a combination of sciences like biology,...

     faculty school.
  • Mederos Campus, in Monterrey
    Monterrey
    Monterrey , is the capital city of the northeastern state of Nuevo León in the country of Mexico. The city is anchor to the third-largest metropolitan area in Mexico and is ranked as the ninth-largest city in the nation. Monterrey serves as a commercial center in the north of the country and is the...

    , housing the Economics, Communication Studies, Music, Political Sciences, Stage Arts, Veterinary Medicine and Visual Arts faculty schools, along the university theater, a state branch of the World Trade Centers Association and the Bilingual Education Research Center (CIDEB).
  • Linares Campus in the Southern municipality of Linares
    Linares, Nuevo León
    Linares is a small city in the state of Nuevo León, Mexico. The city serves as the administrative centre for the surrounding municipality of the same name and it is the largest urban centre of the so called "orange belt" region. The city had a 2005 census population of 56,065, while the...

    , housing the Earth Sciences, Forestry, and a branch of the Accounting and Business Administration faculty schools.
  • Sabinas Hidalgo Campus in Sabinas Hidalgo, home of a local branch of Law and Business Administration faculty schools.

Mission and vision

According to the University's Organic Law, it is an institution 'at the service of society, decentralized from the state, with full juridical capacity and personality, and has its end in creating, preserving, and promoting culture in benefit of society'.

Its Mission Statements says:

'The UANL has as objective to educate professionals, investigators, University teachers, and technicians, and to create and promote scientific investigation in its basic and applied forms, considering regional and national problems. Also, as the other higher education institutions in the country, it will organize, create and promote artistic creations in its diverse forms of expression, and make the community participants of culture, and contribute to the preservation of the national and universal cultural heritage'.

The Vision is if the UANL uanl is to be 'recognized as the best public school in Mexico by 2012'.

His current rector is Jesús Áncer Rodríguez, a former Director of the Faculty of Medicine and the university hospital, who serves as an interim after José Antonio González Treviño resigned to the post to serve as state secretary of education in the cabinet of Rodrigo Medina de la Cruz.

The university also has a symphony orchestra, a chamber orchestra, and a band of regional music, El Tigre.

Athletics

The UANL sports teams are called the Tigres
Tiger
The tiger is the largest cat species, reaching a total body length of up to and weighing up to . Their most recognizable feature is a pattern of dark vertical stripes on reddish-orange fur with lighter underparts...

 and Tigrillas (Tigresses) the women's teams.

The football program. named the Auténticos Tigres, is very successful in the ONEFA. The team has won three national championships (1974, 1977 and 2009), and four times has been runner-up. The football team plays in the Estadio Gaspar Mass
Estadio Gaspar Mass
Estadio Gaspar Mass is an artificial turf stadium in Monterrey, Mexico. It is primarily used for American football and is the home field for the Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León Auténticos Tigres. It holds 13,500 people....



Also the UANL teams has won the national universiade
Universiade
The Universiade is an International multi-sport event, organized for university athletes by the International University Sports Federation . The name is a combination of the words "University" and "olympiad"...

 in 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009

The UANL installations include the Raymundo "Chico" Rivera Stadium (an football and athletic field), the Luis Eugenio Todd Gym, a baseball park, an aquatics center, and indoor soccer pitch, an tennis
Tennis
Tennis is a sport usually played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a racket that is strung to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's court. Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society at all...

 center with 4 courts

The soccer team Tigres de la UANL was managed for the UANL before 1996, when the team's control passed to Cemex
Cemex
CEMEX is the world's largest building materials supplier and third largest cement producer. Founded in Mexico in 1906, the company is based in Monterrey, Mexico...

. The Estadio Universitario
Estadio Universitario
The Estadio Universitario – nicknamed El Volcán is a stadium property of the Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, located in its premises in San Nicolás de los Garza, Nuevo León in Mexico.-Sports:...

 is located in the principal campus of the UANL, and occasionally is host of Auténticos Tigres games, and others activities of the university.

Politicians

Governors
  • Jorge Treviño (1985–1991)
  • Sócrates Rizzo
    Sócrates Rizzo
    Sócrates Cuauhtémoc Rizzo García is a Mexican politician affiliated to the Institutional Revolutionary Party . He is a former federal Congressman , mayor of Monterrey and former governor of Nuevo León Rizzo García is the son of Neftalí Rizzo Rizzo and Jovita García Decanini...

     (1991–1996)
  • Fernando Elizondo Barragán
    Fernando Elizondo Barragán
    Fernando Elizondo Barragán is a Mexican Senator affiliated to the National Action Party. He was the interim governor of Nuevo León and former Secretary of Energy in the cabinet of President Vicente Fox....

     (2003)
  • José Natividad González Parás (2003–2009)


Federal cabinet secretaries
  • Reyes Tamez
    Reyes Tamez
    Reyes Tamez Guerra is a Mexican immunochemist. He is a former Secretary of Education for the State of Nuevo Leon, a former president of the Autonomous University of Nuevo León and a former Secretary of Education in the cabinet of Vicente Fox .-Biography:Tamez Guerra graduated from the Autonomous...

  • Luis Eugenio Todd
  • María Teresa Herrera
    María Teresa Herrera
    María Teresa Herrera Tello is a Mexican lawyer. She served in the cabinet of President Vicente Fox as Secretary of the Agrarian Reform ....


  • The industrialist Mauricio Fernández Garza
    Mauricio Fernández Garza
    Mauricio Fernández Garza is a Mexican politician and businessman directly related to the Fernández Ruiloba wealthy and prominent family; owners of PYOSA . He is currently mayor of San Pedro Garza García, former senator and current member of the board of Grupo Alfa, a Monterrey-based chemical, food...

    .


Notable architects
  • Cesar Dominguez.

Sportsmen

  • Raúl González Olympic medallist
  • Luis Rosendo Ramos Maldonado Olympic cyclist and Panamerican medallist
  • Elsa Garcia
    Elsa Garcia
    Elsa García Rodriguez Blancas, born February 8, 1990, is a Mexican gymnast from Monterrey. She trains at the Regio Club Gimnástico where she is coached by husband and wife Antonio Barraza and Teresa Lopez. Elsa trains alongside national team member Marisela Cantú. Her coaches describe Elsa as a...

     gymnast
  • Mariana Avitia
    Mariana Avitia
    Mariana Avitia Martínez is an athlete from Mexico who competes in archery.-2008 Summer Olympics:At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing Avitia finished her ranking round with a total of 641 points...

     Olympic archer
  • Marisela Cantú Olympic gymnast
  • José Luis Sánchez Olympic shooter
  • Natalia Zamora Olympic shooter
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