The student association of the Institute of Sciences of Zacatecas and its struggle to obtaining their liberties

Abstract

With the newly obtained autonomy by the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) in 1933 and before the advance of the socialist doctrine in various countries of the world and in the face of the changes that this political, economic, and ideological current proposed; The school institutions of Zacatecas, Mexico were forced to propose a change in their educational models. These transformations also changed the way in which students would group together to fight for their objectives such as academic freedom and thought.

Thus, in the present investigation the participation of the student associations of the Institute of Sciences of Zacatecas (ICZ) in the 1930s is analyzed, a period in which the socialist postulates became more relevant. This student participation of the institute forged a later more active intervention of the students in political and academic affairs, which was reflected in the creation of congresses and boards of directors, and most relevantly, in the construction and consolidation of an autonomous (ICZ) and collaborative that would be the ideological foundation on which the Autonomous University of Zacatecas (UAZ) would be established in 1968.