The UDA and the Bicentennial

At the end of the month of November - the month of the Bicentennial of the Independence of Cuenca - five new books published by the University of Azuay circulate. Days before, on November XNUMX, the UDA handed over to the city and put at the service of the students a new and modern campus located in the Baños parish.

Simultaneously announces several postgraduate programs in different areas, including Philosophy. In grossly pragmatic times such as today, a graduate degree in Philosophy is a breath of fresh air in the rarefied university world battered by a decade of state authoritarianism and attempts to deprive it of autonomy. This week develops an Ethics Congress, in a country where Ethics is an archaism in recent years. It is a way of vindicating in the facts - not only in statements - the mission of seeking the truth through reason, as befits a university.

These are bad times for culture, so publishing books is almost a feat. Among the works that circulate, there are for various tastes. For example, a study on the first Basin Regulatory Plan of the late XNUMXs, a Plan that made it a city prepared for the future, something that did not happen with other cities that today suffer the consequences of improvisation.

The new Campus will house the Asunción Educational Unit and the UDA technology majors. It is a first class construction, with constructive quality, functionality and respect for the environment.

The University of Azuay - with more than half a century of travel - reaffirms itself in the Bicentennial of Cuenca, without abandoning the principles that always guided it: academic quality, pluralism and service to a society that values ​​the contribution that this institution has given and continues to find the current authorities. And, Cuenca is celebrated and celebrated with culture. (OR)