EL PIZARRÓN CEU, NO. 3.; Organo informativo del CEU

México, D.F.: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Consejo Estudiantil Universitario, UNAM-CEU, 1987. b/w plates. Informative newspaper of the CEU reporting the news, reports and agreements reached during the Assembly the previous day. The Student Council of the University (CEU) was created in October 1986 by students at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). CEU was the student organization of the most important public university of Latin America, and one of the largest in the world, created to resist an attempt for structural and academic reforms proposed by the then-rector of the institution Dr. Jorge Carpizo McGregor, based on the document called "Fortaleza y debilidad de la UNAM” (Strength and Weakness of the UNAM). The University Student Council (CEU) was created in October 1986 by students at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). It was the form of student organization in the most important public university in Latin America, and one of the largest in the world, to resist an attempt at structural and academic reforms proposed by the then rector of the institution Jorge Carpizo McGregor, through the document called Strength and weakness of UNAM. These proposals sought to be one of the first efforts to solve some of the deficiencies and delays characteristic of public higher education in Mexico and in Latin America, together with what was done in Chile from a perspective that was committed to the reduction of public apparatus and social rights. Being UNAM the most important and oldest public educational and scientific research institution in Mexico, it was part of the processes of political and social definition of the country. According to the CEU students' stance, the public nature of the "maximum house of studies" was put at risk with the attempt of the university authorities to eliminate free admission by imposing an increase in tuition and eliminating the so-called "automatic pass" of the baccalaureate to the degree, which was against the interests of the young people who would enjoy this right. The CEU has always raised the need to create more educational opportunities for the thousands of young people who have since been left out of upper and upper secondary education in Mexico, as well as the increase in public budgets for university education. The CEU was a mass movement, the most important since 1968 in Mexico, which in the end succeeded in its endeavor to overturn the so-called "Carpizo plan", after extensive public dialogue, major street protests and a strike in 1987, putting I change a process of reforms. These reforms were postponed - in part - until the holding of the 1990 University Congress, which was the proposed solution by the student movement as a solution to the conflict. The CEU existed as such until the beginning of 1999. Before it was decisive in the social mobilization that took place in another great moment of the democratization of Mexico: the movement led by Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas, large organized sectors of society and various left-wing parties to remove to the government's PRI, which was arrested with a huge electoral fraud and that led to the birth of the Democratic Revolution Party (PRD). Later, the CEU led other student movements to defend free education and at UNAM in 1992, 1995 and 1997.