The University City of the National University of San Marcos (acronym: CU-UNMSM), generally known as the University City of Lima or simply University City, is the main campus of the
National University of San Marcos
The National University of San Marcos ( es, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, link=no, UNMSM) is a public research university located in Lima, the capital of Peru. It is considered the most important, recognized and representative educ ...
and is located in
Lima District
Lima is a district of Lima Province in Peru. Lima district is the oldest in Lima Province and as such, vestiges of the city's colonial era remain today in the historic centre of Lima, which was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site
A Worl ...
. In the University City of San Marcos are located the main administrative facilities of the university, such as the rectory. It is home to 17 of the 20 faculties of the University of San Marcos, the central library, the
San Marcos University Stadium, the university gymnasium, the dining room of the "University City" and one of the university residences. In addition, the City includes the archaeological complex of the
Huaca San Marcos, which is preserved and studied by San Marcos students and researchers.
Administrative infrastructure
Rectorate "Jorge Basadre"
The rectorado is the university governing body constituted mainly by the rector. The rector is the first executive authority of the university, as well as its legal representative and institutional image of it. The University of San Marcos has had 213 rectors since its foundation, several important and respectable people have taken over the rectorship of the university throughout the
viceregal
A viceroy () is an official who reigns over a polity in the name of and as the representative of the monarch of the territory. The term derives from the Latin prefix ''vice-'', meaning "in the place of" and the French word ''roy'', meaning "k ...
and republican era of Peru, so the rector magnificus is also a symbol of institutional continuity from the foundation to the present. The current rector of the National University of San Marcos is Mrs.
Jeri Gloria Ramón Ruffner Ph.D.
Service infrastructure
Central Library "Pedro Zulen"
From 1768 the university sought to institute (in addition to the own collections of each faculty) a central library, nevertheless, this would not come to be fully realized until 1871. Sacked during the Chilean occupation during the
War of the Pacific
The War of the Pacific ( es, link=no, Guerra del Pacífico), also known as the Saltpeter War ( es, link=no, Guerra del salitre) and by multiple other names, was a war between Chile and a Bolivian–Peruvian alliance from 1879 to 1884. Fought ...
, at the beginning of the 20th century it was He began a modernization process undertaken by the renowned librarian
Pedro Zulen and the Peruvian historian
Jorge Basadre
Jorge Alfredo Basadre Grohmann (February 12, 1903 – June 29, 1980) was a Peruvian historian known for his extensive publications about the independent history of his country. He served during two different administrations as Minister of Educa ...
, a process that achieved the reorganization and total cataloging of the titles. The current central library "Pedro Zulen" of the university is the culmination of several computerization and modernization projects. The central library operates in a 19,800 m² building, making it the largest university library in
Peru
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and one of the largest in
Latin America
Latin America or
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. It consists of four buildings linked together, has five levels and is located in the civic square of the university campus.
The building has the capacity to serve 2,500 users simultaneously. It has a multifunctional stage, 400 seats and various high-tech systems that allow surveillance by video camera, Internet connection, video conferencing systems, multimedia projectors, radio links, and professional audio and sound equipment. The library has all its automated processes, such as, for example, the acquisition of university publications, as well as the cataloging and classification of texts and resources offered by the library. The university seeks to
digitize
DigitizationTech Target. (2011, April). Definition: digitization. ''WhatIs.com''. Retrieved December 15, 2021, from https://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/digitization is the process of converting information into a digital (i.e. computer- ...
all the information of national origin that is in the library through its virtual library service, thus in the medium term it would include collections of newspapers and magazines (dating from the 18th century), books by renowned Peruvian authors, and important works that, due to their small number or being unique examples, are of restricted use. The central library "Pedro Zulen", under the auspices of
UNESCO
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) aimed at promoting world peace and security through international cooperation in education, arts, sciences and culture. It ...
, directs the initiative to develop and implement digitalization and electronic publishing processes in the area of theses and other documents, using international standards such as
OAI-PMH The Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) is a protocol developed for harvesting metadata descriptions of records in an archive so that services can be built using metadata from many archives. An implementation of OAI- ...
,
TEI Lite
The Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) is a text-centric community of practice in the academic field of digital humanities, operating continuously since the 1980s. The community currently runs a mailing list, meetings and conference series, and main ...
,
Dublin Core
220px, Logo image of DCMI, which formulates Dublin Core
The Dublin Core, also known as the Dublin Core Metadata Element Set (DCMES), is a set of fifteen "core" elements (properties) for describing resources. This fifteen-element Dublin Core has ...
, ETD-MS, XML, among others. This initiative that has received the name of
Cybertesis from the University of San Marcos is currently the largest repository in Peru.
Library system (SISBIB)
![UNMSM_P1000084](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2e/UNMSM_P1000084.jpg)
Each of the faculties of the National University of San Marcos has its own library specialized in the areas of study of each faculty, these are connected to each other through the "library system" (SISBIB) of the university. Currently, in addition to the Library System, the University of San Marcos has the "Pedro Zulen Central Library", which includes most of the titles of the university, and which directs the main activity of the SISBIB.
Clinic and university offices
![Unmsm clinicauniversitaria1](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6f/Unmsm_clinicauniversitaria1.JPG)
The current Clinic of the University of San Marcos, inaugurated in February 1998 reorganizing the previous clinical offices, is located within the university campus. At this health center, attention is given to students, retirees, teachers, administrative staff and the neighboring community, performing operations and other emergency cases due to trauma, burns and serious injuries. Provides
pharmacy
Pharmacy is the science and practice of discovering, producing, preparing, dispensing, reviewing and monitoring medications, aiming to ensure the safe, effective, and affordable use of medicines. It is a miscellaneous science as it links heal ...
,
radiology
Radiology ( ) is the medical discipline that uses medical imaging to diagnose diseases and guide their treatment, within the bodies of humans and other animals. It began with radiography (which is why its name has a root referring to radiat ...
, respiratory diseases, diabetes screening,
AIDS
Human immunodeficiency virus infection and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS) is a spectrum of conditions caused by infection with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), a retrovirus. Following initial infection an individual m ...
,
psychology
Psychology is the scientific study of mind and behavior. Psychology includes the study of conscious and unconscious phenomena, including feelings and thoughts. It is an academic discipline of immense scope, crossing the boundaries betwe ...
,
dentistry
Dentistry, also known as dental medicine and oral medicine, is the branch of medicine focused on the teeth, gums, and mouth. It consists of the study, diagnosis, prevention, management, and treatment of diseases, disorders, and conditions o ...
,
gynecology
Gynaecology or gynecology (see spelling differences) is the area of medicine that involves the treatment of women's diseases, especially those of the reproductive organs. It is often paired with the field of obstetrics, forming the combined are ...
, etc. Regularly, in conjunction with other institutions, vaccination campaigns,
blood donation
A blood donation occurs when a person voluntarily has blood drawn and used for blood transfusion, transfusions and/or made into biopharmaceutical medications by a process called Blood fractionation, fractionation (separation of whole blood com ...
, and
sex education
Sex education, also known as sexual education, sexuality education or sex ed, is the instruction of issues relating to human sexuality, including emotional relations and responsibilities, human sexual anatomy, Human sexual activity, sexual acti ...
.
University residence
![UNMSM residencia universitaria](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/02/UNMSM_residencia_universitaria.jpg)
The Residence of the University City is located in the main campus, between the University Avenues and Venezuela. It houses male and female students; provincial of the coast, mountain range and jungle of Peru; of all specialties. This residence currently houses 101 students.
Production center, bookstore and distributor
![UNMSM Cenprolid](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/67/UNMSM_Cenprolid.jpg)
The Editorial Fund of the National University of San Marcos is a division of the university that is responsible for publishing books, magazines and newspapers that receive proposals made through various instances. His field of work is wide, being published not only through the traditional printed format, but also via the Internet. To buy the printed formats, you must enter the university's bookstore and production center: "CENPROLID", located on the same campus.
For a work to be published under the seal of this Fund, it must comply with the publication rules imposed for that case. You must also comply with a style manual, which the seal provides through its website.
Sports infrastructure
Stadium of the University of San Marcos
The Stadium of the National University of San Marcos, also called "Monumental Stadium of San Marcos" or simply "San Marcos Stadium", is located practically in the center of the "University City". It was inaugurated in 1951 commemorating the 400 years of the university's foundation. The University Stadium has a total capacity of 67,469 people, but currently has a maximum allowed capacity of 43,000 due to evacuation problems, despite this it is one of the largest stadiums in Peru. At the moment it is the official stadium of the football team of the university, the
Deportivo Universidad San Marcos, which plays in the
Second Division of Peru. In addition, the stadium is used for extra-academic activities of students, teachers and administrative staff of the University of San Marcos.
Controversy about road works
Since 2007, road works were carried out on the exterior of the "University City". The works imposed by the mayor
Luis Castañeda
Óscar Luis Castañeda Lossio (21 June 1945 – 12 January 2022) was a Peruvian politician who was the Mayor of Lima, the capital city of Peru, from 2003 to 2010. He became Mayor of Lima again in 2015, after being elected for a third nonconse ...
of the
Metropolitan Municipality of Lima The Metropolitan Municipality of Lima ( es, Municipalidad Metropolitana de Lima) is the local government entity of the Lima Province and Lima District. It is the only provincial municipality of special regime with faculties of regional government. I ...
were harshly questioned and rejected by thousands of students Sanmarquinos, because the former mayor intended to mutilate almost 30,000 square meters of campus, and because the construction of a road ring It would imply the disappearance of part of the green areas and of the buffer zones necessary for academic activities on campus. In 2008, specialists from the
National University of Engineering
The National University of Engineering ( es, Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería, UNI) is a public engineering and science university located in the Rímac District of Lima, Peru.
History
The National University of Engineering was founded in 1 ...
and the CDL-
College of Engineers of Peru joined the appropriate student request for the reformulation of the works of the municipality, noting that the road project was over-dimensioned, lacking in livelihoods technicians, it was not necessary to mutilate the campus since there were other options for traffic flows in the area. The support of several congressmen and the population put a brake on the former mayor's project. In August 2008, the works were halted by a precautionary measure of the
National Institute of Culture
The 'National Institute of Culture of Peru (INC) is a government organization under the authority of the Ministry of Education. Its headquarters are located in the city of Lima and its rector is Cecilia Bákula.
Objectives
The institute's objectiv ...
(INC), upon finding that said works damaged part of the cultural heritage in the
Huaca San Marcos.
After the management of former mayor Luis Castañeda, Sanmarquinos expect a new agreement with the incoming management of the mayor
Susana Villarán (2011), which means a better benefit for the Sanmarquinos and for the neighbors, preserving the integrity of the Huaca San Marcos, conserving the buffer zone and the green areas of the campus, not incurring in unjustified constructions and achieving social license. That same year, the new municipal management recognized that the road ring is unnecessary, giving the reason to the position of the University of San Marcos that had sustenance in the evaluations of specialists of the College of Engineers of Peru and the National University of Engineering. Representatives of the university took this news in the best way, and hope to reach a conciliation with the Lima commune.
See also
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National University of San Marcos
The National University of San Marcos ( es, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, link=no, UNMSM) is a public research university located in Lima, the capital of Peru. It is considered the most important, recognized and representative educ ...
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Estadio Universidad San Marcos
The Estadio de la UNMSM is a multi-purpose stadium located in Lima, Peru, belonging to the National University of San Marcos. It was inaugurated on May 13, 1951, with a seating capacity of 32,000 and covers an area of 48,782 m². Safety measures ...
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Casona of the National University of San Marcos
The Casona de la Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, also known as Cultural Center of the National University of San Marcos, is a large Colonial building in the city of Lima, Lima Region, Peru, where the main cultural center of the Universi ...
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Historic Centre of Lima
Located principally in the city centre or Cercado de Lima and Rímac areas, the Historic Centre of Lima is among the most important tourist destinations in Peru.
Foundation
The city of Lima, the capital of Peru, was founded by Francisco Piz ...
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