University of Havana
Taken in 1930
Established:	1728
Type:	Public
Rector:	Rubén Zardoya Loureda
Faculty:	over 300
Students:	6,000
Location:	Havana, Cuba
Website:	www.uh.cu/

The University of Havana or UH (in Spanish, Universidad de La Habana) is a university located in the Vedado district of Havana, Cuba. Founded in 1728, the University of Havana is the oldest university in Cuba and one of the first to be founded in the Americas. Founded as a religious institution, today the University of Havana has 15 faculties (colleges) at its Havana campus and distance learning centers throughout Cuba. The date of establishment or date of founding of an institution is the date on which that institution chooses to claim as its starting point. ... Events Astronomical aberration discovered by the astronomer James Bradley Swedish academy of sciences founded at Uppsala The founding of the University of Havana (Universidad de la Habana), Cubas most well-established university. ... The term public school has three distinct meanings: In the USA and Canada, elementary or secondary school supported and administered by state and local officials. ... The word rector (ruler, from the Latin regere) has a number of different meanings, but all of them indicate someone who is in charge of something. ... A faculty is a division within a university. ... For other uses, see Student (disambiguation). ... This article is about the capital of Cuba. ... A website (alternatively, web site or Web site) is a collection of Web pages, images, videos or other digital assets that is hosted on one or more web servers, usually accessible via the Internet. ... Vedado is a neighbourhood in the city of Havana, Cuba. ... This article is about the capital of Cuba. ... Events Astronomical aberration discovered by the astronomer James Bradley Swedish academy of sciences founded at Uppsala The founding of the University of Havana (Universidad de la Habana), Cubas most well-established university. ... For the community in Florida, see University, Florida. ... World map showing the Americas The Americas are the lands of the Western hemisphere historically considered to consist of the continents of North America and South America with their associated islands and regions. ...

History

It was first called "Real y Pontificia Universidad de San Gerónimo de la Habana" (in English Royal and Pontifical University of San Geronimo of Havana).At those times, universities needed a royal or papal authorization in order to be created and thus the names Real y Pontificia. The two men who gave that authorization to the university were Pope Innocent XIII and King Philip V of Spain. The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... Pope Innocent XIII (May 13, 1655 – March 7, 1724) was pope from 1721 until his death. ... King Philip V of Spain (December 19, 1683 – July 9, 1746) or Philippe of Anjou was king of Spain from 1700 to 1746, the first of the Bourbon dynasty in Spain. ...

The entrance to the University of Havana

In 1842, the university changed its status to become a secular, royal and literary institution. Its name became Real y Literaria Universidad de La Habana (in English, Royal and Literary Havana University) and later on,-at the time of the Republicans, the name was changed to Universidad Nacional (in English, National University). 1842 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ...

The university had first been established in San Juan de Letrán (located in Villa de San Cristóbal in Old Havana) before it was transferred in May 1, 1902 to a hill in the Vedado area of Havana. The interiors of the building were decorated by Armando Menocal y Menocal. The seven frescos represent Medicine, Science, Art, Thought, Liberal Arts, Literature, and Law. At the main university entrance (shown above) there is a bronze statue of Alma Mater (meaning the "Nourishing mother" in Latin) that was created in 1919 by artist Mario Korbel. The model for the statue's face was lovely 16-year-old Feliciana "Chana" Villalón, the daughter of José Ramón Villalón y Sánchez, a professor of analytical mathematics at the University. Chana later married Juan Manuel Menocal (a distant relative of Armando Menocal), who went on to become the Dean of the Business School. Juan Manuel Menocal was a professor at the law school when Fidel Castro was a student there in the 1940s. The writer Maria Rosa Menocal, currently Director of the Whitney Humanities Center at Yale, is the granddaughter of Chana and Juan Manuel Menocal. (See Alma Mater Witness of Time by Eduardo Heras León). Old Havana (Spanish: ) contains the core of the original city of Havana. ... is the 121st day of the year (122nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1902 (MCMII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Tuesday [1] of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... Vedado is a neighbourhood in the city of Havana, Cuba. ... This article is about the capital of Cuba. ... For the chemical substances known as medicines, see medication. ... A magnet levitating above a high-temperature superconductor demonstrates the Meissner effect. ... This article is about the philosophical concept of Art. ... Personification of thought (Greek Εννοια) in Celsus Library in Ephesos, Turkey Thought or thinking is a mental process which allows beings to model the world, and so to deal with it effectively according to their goals, plans, ends and desires. ... In the history of education, the seven liberal arts comprise two groups of studies, the trivium and the quadrivium. ... For other uses, see Literature (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see Law (disambiguation). ... This article is about the metal alloy. ... For other uses, see Alma mater (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see Latins and Latin (disambiguation). ... Year 1919 (MCMXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar). ... Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz (born on August 13, 1926) is the current President of Cuba but on indefinite medical hiatus. ...

The main library "Rubén Martínez Villena" was established later in 1936. Year 1936 (MCMXXXVI) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...

After the government was taken over by Fulgencio Batista in 1952, the University became a center of anti-government protests. Batista closed the University in 1956, and never allowed it to re-open. It opened again in 1959 upon the success of the revolution led by Fidel Castro. General Fulgencio Batista y Zaldívar (pronounced ; January 16, 1901 – August 6, 1973) was a Cuban military officer, dictator and politician. ...

Organization

The University of Havana is made up of 15 faculties (Spanish: facultades) and 14 research centers in different fields like economics, sciences, social science and humanities. In total, up to twenty five specialties are taught at the university. Now, it has about 6000 degree students in regular classes. Face-to-face trading interactions on the New York Stock Exchange trading floor. ... For the scientific journal named Science, see Science (journal). ... The social sciences are groups of academic disciplines that study the human aspects of the world. ... For other uses, see Humanities (disambiguation). ...

There are 15 faculties into which the university is divided:

• Natural Sciences
  • Faculty of Biology
  • Faculty of Pharmacy and Foods
  • Faculty of Physics
  • Faculty of Geography
  • Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science *[1] (Spanish)
  • Faculty of Psychology
  • Faculty of Chemistry

• Social Sciences and Humanities
  • Faculty of Arts and Letters
  • Faculty of Communication
  • Faculty of Law
  • Faculty of Philosophy and History
  • Faculty of Foreign Languages

• Economic Sciences
  • Faculty of Accounting and Finance
  • Faculty of Economics

• Distance Education

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Student Organizations

Before Castro's Communist Revolution of 1959, students joined different organisations, aligning themselves directly or indirectly with some political party. The strongest of all these organisations was the FEU (Federación Estudiantíl Universitaria or University students federation) created by Julio Antonio Mella, a co-founder of the Cuban Communist Party in the 1920's. The European revolutionary tradition of college-based political activism, practised in Cuba and in many other Latin American countries and the alleged corruption of Cuban political parties at the time turned the FEU, a stronghold of communist ideology, into the most influential of Cuban political organizations before 1959. It was a major participant in the overthrowing of Cuban President Gerardo Machado. The FEU innovated the national general strike of 1933, resulting in the imprisonment of many of its members. Founder Julio Antonio Mella, himself was killed at the hands of police during a riot outside the University. Fusion Energy Unit is the energy yielded through fusion of one mole Hydrogen atoms into one mole of 2Helium. ... Julio Antonio Mella (25 March 1903 - 10 January 1929) was a founder of the internationalized Cuban Communist Party [1]. Mella studied law in the University of Havana until he was expelled in 1925 [2] and is considered at hero by the present Cuban Government e. ... In modern usage, the term communist party is generally used to identify any political party which has adopted communist ideology. ... Gerardo Machado, Time, 1933 Gerardo Machado (y Morales) (28 September 1871, Camajani – 29 March 1939, Miami Beach, Florida) was a Cuban general of Cuban War of Independence and the 5th president of Cuba. ... Julio Antonio Mella (25 March 1903 - 10 January 1929) was a founder of the internationalized Cuban Communist Party [1]. Mella studied law in the University of Havana until he was expelled in 1925 [2] and is considered at hero by the present Cuban Government e. ...

After the coup d'etat by Fulgencio Batista in 1954, when free and democratic elections were suspended, the violent clashes between university sutdents and Cuban police reached its extremes. Students known to be members of the FEU were violently tortured and killed in the streets of Havana, and the organization reacted with an irregular war in the city, aiming mainly to assassinate police officers of high rank, like the chief of the police in Havana, Blanco Rico, who was killed by 4 FEU members. After the assault on the Moncada barracks by Fidel Castro, an attorney who graduated from Havana University School of Law, and who had contacts in the FEU, the FEU became an ally of Castro's new July 26th Movement, though there were discrepancies between the leaders in the form that the forthcoming revolution should be carried out. While Fidel Castro was hiding in the Sierra Maestra mountains, the FEU, lead by Jose Antonio Echeverria, attempted to kill Fulgencio Batista in an armed assault at the Cuban Presidential Palace on March 13, 1957. Batista managed to escape, and many student assaultants died in the action, as did Echeverria himself. During the months that followed, the police executed many of the students that lead the failed coup. President Batista ordered the university to be closed, and it remained so until Batista fled the country and Fidel Castro entered Havana on January, 1959. General Fulgencio Batista y Zaldívar (pronounced ; January 16, 1901 – August 6, 1973) was a Cuban military officer, dictator and politician. ... The factual accuracy of this article is disputed. ... Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz (born on August 13, 1926) is the current President of Cuba but on indefinite medical hiatus. ... Fusion Energy Unit is the energy yielded through fusion of one mole Hydrogen atoms into one mole of 2Helium. ... Sierra Maestra is a mountain range that runs westward across the south of the old Oriente Province from what is now Guantánamo Province to Niquero [1] in southeast Cuba, rising abruptly from the coast. ... Fusion Energy Unit is the energy yielded through fusion of one mole Hydrogen atoms into one mole of 2Helium. ... General Fulgencio Batista y Zaldívar (pronounced ; January 16, 1901 – August 6, 1973) was a Cuban military officer, dictator and politician. ...

Since the triumph of the Castro Revolution in Cuba and the promulgation of a Communist State, all student political organizations in the university were outlawed. Resistance to these attempts were met with firing squads. Student protests were also outlawed, punishable by death. Only the PCE (Partido Comunista Estudiantil or Student Communist Party) was allowed to exist, and it was only a rubber stamp organization for the Central Committee and the Cuban Communist Party. All weapons were confiscated, all student gatherings were monitored and all literature was screened, in line with governmental ordinances.

References

• Gulfbase.org
• Red Latinoamericana de Química

See also

Cuba Portal

• Education in Cuba
• List of universities in Cuba
• Havana

Image File history File links Flag_of_Cuba. ... Educational oversight Minister of Education Ministry of Education Luis Ignacio Gómez Gutiérrez National education budget $2752 million CP ($246 CP per capita)[1] (2002) Primary languages Spanish system Literacy (2004)  â€¢ Men  â€¢ Women 100[2]% 100[3]% 100[4]% Enrollment  â€¢ Primary  â€¢ Secondary  â€¢ Post-secondary Attainment  â€¢ Secondary diploma  â€¢ Post-secondary... The following is a list of higher education academic institutes in Cuba: Higher Polytechnic Institute Jose Antonio Echevarria (ISPJAE, commonly known as CUJAE) Universidad de Ciencias Informaticas (UCI) University of Havana (1728) University of Santiago de Cuba University of Camagüey University of Ciego de Ávila University of Cienfuegos Carlos... This article is about the capital of Cuba. ...

External links

• University of Habana Website (Spanish)

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