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Acting on a judge's order, the police stormed the buildings held by strikers on 7 February 2000, putting an end to the strike. [ 35 ] [ 36 ] [ 37 ] In 2009 the university was awarded the Prince of Asturias Award for Communication and Humanities [ 38 ] and began the celebration of its centennial anniversary with several activities that will last ...
UNAM is a public university founded in 1910 and claims to be the institutional heir of the earlier original University of Mexico, but under state rather than church control. Today, the Pontifical University of Mexico is the only pontifical university which exists in Mexico, established by the Holy See.
The National Autonomous University of Mexico (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)), is the large public autonomous university, and it is based in Mexico ...
The 1999–2000 strike and shutdown of the UNAM (National Autonomous University of Mexico, the largest university in Latin America) had its origins in the January 1999 announcement by its latest rector that tuition would increase significantly and graduation requirements would become more restrictive. In response, a large group of students ...
Willard Earl LaMere (1918 – November 29, 1990) was a Native American community organizer and educational leader in Chicago, Illinois in the mid twentieth century, a period when the US government's Indian termination policy encouraged Native Americans to assimilate into mainstream American society. [1]
UNAM provides education in science, medicine, and engineering. [51] Many scientific institutes and new institutes of higher learning, such as National Polytechnic Institute (founded in 1936), [52] were established during the first half of the 20th century. Most of the new research institutes were created within UNAM.
The Mayors: The Chicago Political Tradition (1995); essays by scholars covering important mayors before 1980; Green, Paul M., and Melvin G. Holli. Chicago, World War II (2003) excerpt and text search; short and heavily illustrated; Gustaitis, Joseph. Chicago's Greatest Year, 1893: The White City and the Birth of a Modern Metropolis (2013) online
She co-founded Chicago's Hull House, one of America's most famous settlement houses. In 1920, she was a co-founder for the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). [ 109 ] In 1931, she became the first American woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize , and is recognized as the founder of the social work profession in the United States. [ 110 ]