January-March 2014 newsletter for the General Coordination of Cooperation and Internationalization of the Autonomous University of Yucatan

1. dination with UADY for
over 25 years, come on
'Springbreak' and thus substi-
tute their vacation doing
community work," he explai-
ned. "During the summer
UADY students make a si-
milar stay in Florida."
He said that today, Wednes-
day, the work of students and
academics from the universi-
ties of Florida and Yucatán
was held in Izamal and to-
morrow will be held in Tel-
chac. Among the young peo-
ple there are students of me-
dicine, nursing, dentistry,
chemistry and audiology.
Mérida, Yucatán, March 5, 2014
-. Since last Saturday, as part of
the Yucatán Project, 45 students
and faculty from the University
of Florida, along with a large
group of students from the Auto-
nomous University of Yucatan
(UADY) provide their services
for the benefit of the inhabitants
of various small communities in
the interior of the state said Jorge
Carlos Guillermo Herrera, head
of the Comprehensive System of
Student Services at UADY.
He said that the university and
American teachers had arrived
on Saturday morning and imme-
diately met with academics and
managers of the Faculty of Me-
dicine to arrange work schedu-
les, together with students and
members from UADY’s Volun-
tary Program Hoy en tu Comuni-
dad.
"They are now in Izamal
and tomorrow they will con-
clude their stay in Yucatan
hoping to have attended
about 2,000 people," said
Guillermo Herrera who reca-
lled that on Tuesday and on
Monday they visited small
communities and municipali-
ties Tixkokob and Samahil.
"The intention is that stu-
dents in Florida, an institu-
tion that has worked in coor-
Last December the Iberoameri-
cana University Postgraduate
Association awarded the Prize
AUIP to the Quality Graduate
and PhD in Latin America pro-
gram, to the Institutional Ph.D.
in Management of Tropical Na-
tural Resources Graduate Pro-
gram in Agricultural Sciences
of the Autonomous University
of Yucatan.
Similarly, the Master of the Institutio-
nal Graduate Program in Agricultural
Science and Management of Tropical
Natural Resources was also recipient
of the Award for Quality AUIP Post-
graduate and PhD in Latin America.
The Act awards ceremony is schedu-
led for March 20, 2014 within the fra-
mework of the General Assembly of
the Association convened in Bogotá,
Colombia (National University, 20
and March 21, 2014).
F l o r i d a S t u d e n t s s t r e n g t h e n
“ H o y e n t u C o m u n i d a d ” p r o g r a m
I N T H I S
N E W S L E T T E R
 Visiting stu-
dents and stu-
dents from
UADY make a
difference by
helping the
community in
various ways.
 Several of
UADY’s educa-
tional programs
receive recogni-
tion.
Master and Ph.D of the Autonomous University of Yucatan recieve award.
A U T O N O M O U S U N I V E R S I T Y O F Y U C A T A N
General Coordination of Cooperation and
internationalization
January-March 2014

2. Merida, Yucatan, 20 of February of
2014.- The School of Chemical Engi-
neering at the Autonomous Universi-
ty of Yucatan (UADY) was endorsed
for the fourth consecutive time with a
quality recognition for its educational
program in Industrial Engineering
Chemistry. "Receiving for the fourth
time the accreditation certificate
means is not a coincidence, we are
talking about a quality that has come
to stay and shows that UADY has a
new form of academic life which
makes things right for the benefit of
students "said the president of the
university Alfredo Dájer Abimerhi
who received the award from Maria
Elena Barrera Bustillos, president of
the Accreditation Board for Engi-
neering Education (CACEI by its
acronym in Spanish).
"All that UADY does is for the stu-
dents’ better training, enabling them
to build their life projects which will
realize their professional careers and
find the spaces where they can suc-
cessfully perform as citizens and
professionals," said the president at
the distinction ceremony today in the
courtyard of the Faculty of Chemical
Engineering, Campus of Exact Sci-
ences and Engineering.
It is important to note that this ac-
creditation, valid for five years, was
granted in 1999, 2004 and 2009. The
Directorate General of Academic
Development at UADY reported that
36 of its 41 degree programs are cur-
rently enjoying national recognition for
its quality.
"Our first obligation as an educational
institution is to do our part to build a
higher education system, which the
country desperately needs," said the
president before dozens of students,
academics and members of the Univer-
sity Council. "This system will ensure
that all young people that study a de-
gree, regardless of the institution, agen-
cy or program will be guaranteed an
education of quality."
In turn Marcela Zamudio Maya, direc-
tor of the School of Chemical Engi-
neering at UADY said that "quality
education is necessary to respond to
young people who bet their intellectual
capital to UADY to forge their profes-
sional future" and said "the institution
is accountable to society which has
entrusted with the noble task of train-
ing the professionals who will be re-
sponsible for transforming the way
we understand social development,
bringing new logic and more inclu-
sive and fair process in a society that
must reinvent all days. "
She also said that to achieve accredi-
tation plan, they had to demonstrated
that they counted with consistent
studies, teachers with high profes-
sional and educational qualification,
relevant lines of research which
were consistent with the social and
productive needs, mobility pro-
grams, interaction with the produc-
tive sectors, modern infrastructure
and comprehensive and specialized
library collections.
Finally Maria Elena Barrera Bustil-
los, president of CACEI, said that of
the 4,000 engineering programs in
the country that only 16% have ac-
creditation. "I deliver this recogni-
tion to UADY, its officers, academ-
ics and students who must be
pleased that the work is paying off
and to the productive sector; I say
that in this university they are
properly forming students so we can
guarantee they come out with the
profile that is required."
tary schools in this city to
narrate a series of short sto-
ries, in order to promote
reading and generate inter-
est in other languages, said
Julieta Guerrero Walker,
director of the School of
Using an innovative techni-
que for teaching English, 27
students from the Bachelor
of Teaching English (LEI by
its Spanish acronym) attend
on March 7, to two elemen-
Education of the Autonomous
University of Yucatan
(UADY).
U A D Y r e c e i v e s i t s f o u r t h c o n s e c u t i v e
a c c r e d i t a t i o n f o r t h e p r o g r a m o f
I n d u s t r i a l C h e m i c a l E n g i n e e r i n g
2 7 S t u d e n t s o f t h e F a c u l t y
o f E d u c a t i o n p a r t i c i p a t e i n
t h e " S t o r y t e l l i n g " p r o j e c t
P a g e 2

3. ries, biographies, works
of history, politics, sci-
ence, culture, technolo-
gy, art, design, gastrono-
my, of cartoonists, sci-
ence fiction, superhero,
social analysis, photog-
raphy, and journalism. "
"Let us read, because a
reading society is a soci-
ety that thinks, that dis-
cusses and builds togeth-
er their own idea of the
future. It is a society that
is conformed by women
and men, free, critical
and creative ... by read-
ing we opened the door
to the extraordinary op-
portunity to talk with the
writer, and without
thinking, we speak with
Cervantes, Mo Yan, Gar-
cía Márquez, Pacheco,
Poniatowska, or Vargas
Llosa, wherever they are.
"
Opening the FILEY
Rolando Zapata Bello,
Governor of the State,
said that this event places
UADY as an axis that
integrates the Secretary
of Education , the Minis-
try of Culture and the
Arts, the College of Arts
Yucatan, CULTUR and
private sponsors and cul-
tural promoters , among
others.
"This is a reading fair
that brings us to Guada-
lajara and Ecuador and
brings together in one
space readers, writers
and publishers, meaning
the literary creative in-
dustry as a whole," he
said. "Last year at the
opening of the fair, we
reflected on the im-
portance of a partnership
of readers, reaching dif-
ferent conclusions, but
all reaffirming that un-
doubtedly reading is the
most noble and profitable
act by which we obtain
knowledge".
"A society that reads, is
happier, more educated,
more prepared, more
competitive, more in-
formed and free, I'm sure
you all know that read-
ing, everywhere you
look, is good,
and in Yucatan
we are not sat-
isfied with just
knowing and
every time we
are able to ex-
tend the invita-
tion to all to
enjoy reading
and culture."
Mérida, Yucatán, March
8, 2014 -. "To the young
people I ask you to read,
read a lot. Nothing
makes a father more
proud than to see the
amount of books their
children read, "said Al-
fredo Dájer Abimerhi
today, president of the
Autonomous University
of Yucatan (UADY) at
the opening ceremony of
the Third Edition of the
International Fair of
Reading 2014 (FILEY by
its Spanish acronym)
which brought together
dozens of national and
foreign writers and intel-
lectuals as well as more
than 130 publishing
houses which together
offer more than 200
thousand books of all
genres.
To the authorities of the
three branches of govern-
ment, local council and
special guests as the
president of the National
Autonomous University
of Mexico (UNAM), Jo-
se Narro Robles and the
University of Guadalaja-
ra Tonatiuh Bravo Pa-
dilla and representatives
of the government of
Mexico City, the presi-
dent of the UADY said:
"Let's read today, read
novels, poems, short sto-
T h e T h i r d R e a d i n g F a i r s t a r t s w i t h a n
i n v i t a t i o n t o e m p l o y r e a d i n g t o
a d d r e s s r e a l i t y .
P a g e 3
“Lets read,
because a
society that
reads is a
society that
thinks…”

4. creditation to the degree pro-
gram of the Faculty of Dentis-
try at Autonomous University
of Yucatan (UADY by its
Spanish acronym) .
In front of the members of the
XV Council of UADY, the
president of the university Al-
Mérida , Yucatán, March 7,
2014 - . " Quality education in
general, and particularly
higher education is a social
priority and demand that the
educational authorities have a
duty to respond to as an essen-
tial process for the formation
of human resources that are
appropriate and consistent
with the economic, social ,
demographic, cultural and
cross-cultural transformations,
"said Maria Cristina Sifuentes
Valenzuela president of the
National Council for the
Teaching of Dentistry
(CONAEDO by its Spanish
acronym) here today, to deli-
ver the fourth consecutive ac-
fredo Dájer Abimerhi , as well
as students , teachers and re-
presentatives of state health,
professional associations and
civil associations Sifuentes
Valenzuela said that
"evaluation, with the purposes
of accreditation, is established
as an essential mechanism to
promote quality."
The event, held in the audito-
rium of the faculty, which in-
cidentally, was recently remo-
deled, was attended by mem-
bers of the University Council
of Professional Associations,
Medical Arbitration Commis-
sion and State Health Depart-
ment.
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