Argentine University Federation
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The Argentine University Federation (Spanish: Federación Universitaria Argentina; FUA) is the most important student organization in Argentina.
Location | Buenos Aires, Argentina |
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Established | 1918 |
President | Bernardo Weber |
General secretary | Constanza Bossio |
Affiliations | Organización Continental Latinoamericana y Caribeña de Estudiantes |
Website | Official website |
The FUA was created on April 11, 1918, within the University Reform student movement originated in Córdoba, which later spread through Latin America, that demanded an autonomous system in which teachers, graduates, and students would participate in the government of the universities.
The FUA gathers the university federations of every local university, which are at the same time composed of student centres of each faculty, totalling a million and a half students throughout the country. The biggest and most important of such federations is the FUBA of the University of Buenos Aires with over 300,000 students (as of 2005). Other important federations include the FULP (La Plata), FUR (Rosario), FUC (Córdoba), FUT (Tucumán) and FUL (Litoral).
In 1894 was founded in the Faculty of Engineering of the UBA the first student centre in Argentina, under the name "La Línea Recta". Medicine and Law had their own in 1940 and 1905 respectively. The most powerful student centre nowadays is that of the Economic Sciences of the UBA, with 50,000 students, followed by UBA's Law school (35,000) and Medicine (29,000).