URABA

Sectional Opening: December 1, 1995

Resolution of the Ministry of Education 3250 of 5 December 2000. For which authorizes the establishment of a branch of the University of Antioquia in the municipality of Turbo.

Out of the blue. At the University of Antioquia told him that he got a gift like a glove with its regionalization project. Uraba banana Employers agreed to deliver a 4.6-acre lot to contribute to academic growth in the area.
Regionalization director of the university, John Jairo Arboleda, had they already have a plan for the property: an office where administrative work, research laboratories and new programs will be offered. For Luis Fernando Arango, president of Uniban, the university has increased its presence with more supply and delivery of the consignment meets the need of Uraba of continuing that growth.

On the economic amount of the gift, Arango said he could not calculate it but believes that amounts to several hundred million dollars because it is practically in the urban area of Apartado.
New order With the gift, the U. A. continues with its reorganization in the area, which will present in the three municipalities.

At the headquarters of the institution in Turbo, the first one installed in his proposed regionalization are 897 undergraduate students who have outgrown and by building new road layouts will be reduced. In return the local government gave the land where today it is filled to raise the headquarters Marine Science
It will be a two-story building with classrooms, research laboratories, library, computer rooms and administrative area. The work would be delivered in the second half of next year and will house 18 academic programs offered at the time, as Aquaculture Engineering, Agricultural Engineering, Management and Technology in Cultural Ecology and Tourism. Another project is the municipality where you Carepa: On the farm will be built based Tulenapa Ecological Studies.
John Jairo Arboleda reported to be a strategic location: neighbors are the Darien Gap, Chocó, the border with Panama and urban primary forest, perhaps unique in the country.

Now just awaiting the reply of the Ministry of Agriculture with the final award of the farm. More superior offer with the property of Apartado delivered by the banana will also increase the University's academic menu. The intention is to offer programs that are different from those in other locations and between John Jairo Arboleda possibilities mentioned some engineering, but said that it will identify the relevant studies. Groups like the Institute for Regional Studies analyze what are the professions that best suit the conditions of the subregion. It is clear in this case, the aim of diversifying the productive sector.

At that point, for Jairo Zapata, branch director in Urabá, the interesting thing is that undergraduates have a wider range of possibilities for study.
Presence in the region make about 13 institutions such as the Luis Amigo, Unified National Corporation, the Politecnico Jaime Isaza, the Cooperativa de Colombia, the Seine, the Foundation for Advanced Studies and University Unad.
For the amount of people interested in enrollment at the university, Zulma Ester Gels Palace Turbo education secretary, said that the mentality of the community from education is changing. Undergraduates are now more aware of the importance of studying and presented widely.Gel is clear that the quality, but also by the economic conditions of the population, most aspire to quotas at the University of Antioquia.


Few reach university urabaenses although the presence of higher education institutions in Uraba has grown, the access of the population is very poor. Jairo Zapata, director sectional U. A. in Turbo, estimates that 12 percent of graduates entering college.


The U. A. expands into the sea

Marine and biological studies are expected to perform in two venues to be built by the University of Antioquia in Turbo and Carepa.
Two macropoyectos be starting work at the University of Antioquia in the region of Uraba, when you begin construction and operation of the headquarters of Marine Sciences in the municipality of Turbo and headquarters in Carepa Ecological Studies.

The first begun in the first instance, as already made the adjustments of the land and also made the public call to assign the contract for the work, while the second, which is located on the farm Tulenapa donated by Corpoica expects the relevant adaptations to begin biological studies.