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A Communication on University Reform

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2022

Jesús Chavarría
Jesús Chavarría*
Affiliation:
University of California, Santa Barbara
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Since the late 1950's interest in Latin American university student politics has increased in this country. Such concern has mainly focused on the contemporary importance of Latin American university student movements. Detailed and sophisticated socio-political analyses have been rendered, with the end in mind, though not always, of explaining the political socialization of Latin American university students, i.e., what makes a student a radical or a conservative. Frequently, the exegetes of Latin American university student politics have made references to the problem of historical origins. In that connection, reference has been made to the University Reform Movement, in particular, to the Córdoba events of June 1918.

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Latin American Research Review , Volume 3 , Issue 3 , Summer 1968 , pp. 192 - 195
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Copyright © 1968 by the University of Texas Press

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NOTES

1. Robert F. Arnove, “A Survey of Literature and Research on Latin American Universities,” Latin American Research Review, 3, 1 (Fall 1967) p. 45, emphasis mine. Others have made the same assumption. Kenneth N. Walker, for example, recently wrote that “it is generally known, however, that the [University Reform] movement began in Argentina and spread to other Latin American nations. …” See his article in Student Politics, S. M. Lipset (ed.) (New York, 1967), p. 293, emphasis mine. John P. Harrison's, “The Confrontation with the Political University,” The Annals of the American Academy, Vol. 334 (March 1961) attracted considerable attention to Latin America's “political universities.” Harrison wrote on the question of the historical origins of la Reforma that “from its starting point in the Rio de la Plata in 1918, the [University Reform] movement spread rapidly throughout Latin America. …” p. 76. Still earlier, and possibly the man who started it all, Solomon Lipp made the same assumption. See his “The University Reform in Hispanic America,” Unpubl. Ph.D. dissertation, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University (1949).

2. Lipp, Ibid., p. v.

3. See principally his La reforma universitaria, 6 vols. (Buenos Aires, 1927).

4. In Memorias: Mi generación en la universidad, vol. II (Lima, 1961), p. 55f.

5. See Jorge Basadre, “Un caso en la crisis universitaria Hispano-americana: La Universidad de San Marcos,” La Educación, Año V, No. 18 (Abril-Junio 1960) Union Panamericana, p. 60.