The University of San Martin de Porres (USMP) is a private nonprofit
university
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located in the city of
Lima
Lima ( ; ), founded in 1535 as the Ciudad de los Reyes (, Spanish for "City of Biblical Magi, Kings"), is the capital and largest city of Peru. It is located in the valleys of the Chillón River, Chillón, Rímac River, Rímac and Lurín Rive ...
,
Peru
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. It was founded by the
Dominican Order
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of the
Catholic Church
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in 1962.
History
The Dominican foundation: Pro Deo
The University of Saint Martin de Porres began as a subsidiary of the
Istituto di Studi Superiori Pro Deo, an organization founded in 1946 in
Rome
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by father Felix Andrew Morlion and
monsignor
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Antonio de Angelis. In those years there was a great promotion of the values of the universal church and, following this trend in Peru, this Pro Deo Institute would be constituted in 1952 under the auspices of the Dominican Order as an institute of social philosophical studies, where journalism, education and philosophy courses were taken.
The first classes took place in the
Rosario Convent of Lima, specifically in the section corresponding to the old apostolic college, and in charge of it was father Vicente Sanchez Valer O.P.
The objective was to educate the youth in the Christian social doctrine to check the advance of
Marxism
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in the Peruvian university panorama. A non-profit civil association was integrated, called the Peruvian Institute of Social Philosophical Studies. The mission of IPEFS was to found a Catholic-oriented university.
The ministry of education would legally recognize the Institute of Social Philosophical Studies on April 26, 1960 through Ministerial Resolution No. 5733. The institute began its official operation on May 2, 1960 with 113 students: 73 men and 40 ladies in detail. During this stage education was totally free, for that reason teachers and administrative staff worked without remuneration as collaborators.
On November 5, 1961, the president of the
republic
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,
Manuel Prado Ugarteche
Manuel Carlos Prado y Ugarteche (21 April 1889 – 15 August 1967) was a Peruvian politician and banker who served twice as president of Peru. Son of former President Mariano Ignacio Prado, he was born in Lima and served as the nation's 43rd ...
, visited the Rosario convent where a solemn mass was held in honor of the then Blessed Friar
Martin de Porres. The president was accompanied by
Pedro Beltrán Espantoso, president of the Council of Ministers; the auxiliary bishop of Lima, monsignor Mario Cornejo; the First Lady,
Clorinda Málaga de Prado and two ladies of company. Father Vicente Sánchez Valer invited both authorities, as his companions, to enter the classrooms of the new institute. Sanchez Valer took the opportunity to expose the importance of founding a university that honors the name of a beatified. After that, Manuel Prado would commit to trying to help in any way he could.
The session of the associate members of the IPEFS on February 2, 1962 would prove to be of vital importance. Here it would be agreed to ask the government for the elevation of its academic entity, the Institute of Philosophical and Social Studies (IEFS), as a private university according to the current university law. For this the partners session decided: the establishment of the statutory bases of the future university, the election of a rector, a charge that would fall on the director of the IEFS, father Vicente Sánchez Valer, and a higher council of studies was appointed.
A special patronage presided over by Pedro Roselló Truel would also be important to achieve the objective. This board had to raise 1,500,000
soles for the constitution of the university, a task that was finally achieved.
Expropriation of the university in 1969
The revolutionary government, established by a
coup d'etat of
Juan Velasco Alvarado
Juan Francisco Velasco Alvarado (June 16, 1910 – December 24, 1977) was a Peruvian Army general, general who served as the President of Peru after a successful 1968 Peruvian coup d'état, coup d'état against Fernando Belaúnde's presidency ...
, would expropriate the university of San Martin de Porres to the Order of Santo Domingo, by the decree law 17437 of January 18, 1969. Despite recognizing the Dominicans as founding entity, the ownership and administration of the new university would be delivered to the university community. The participation of the religious order would be reduced to only 3 representatives in the Assembly of the University Council, although the rector and vice chancellor at the time were still Dominicans.
Development and expansion
Apart from any controversy about university policy, it was during the rector of
José Antonio Chang Escobedo that the university of San Martin de Porres would achieve internal stability. Thanks to that, the university began a process that allowed it to improve its infrastructure and general equipment. In 2006 a whole campus was inaugurated in
Chiclayo, with the objective of combating the educational centralism of Lima. The president of the republic,
Alan García Pérez, attended the ceremony; the bishop of the diocese of Chiclayo, Jesús Molinel La Barca and the president of the
Lambayeque region,
Yehude Simon Munaro.
Structure
Its headquarters are located at the campus of
Santa Anita which houses the faculty of
administrative sciences and
human resources
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, the faculty of
accounting
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,
economic
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and
financial sciences and the faculty of
dentistry
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. The faculty of
human medicine, faculty of
engineering
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and
architecture
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and the faculty of
law
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is located in the district of
La Molina. The faculty of
communication sciences
Communication studies (or communication science) is an academic discipline that deals with processes of human communication and behavior, patterns of communication in interpersonal relationships, social interactions and communication in differ ...
,
tourism
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and
psychology
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is located in the district of
Surquillo. The school of
obstetrics
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and
nursing
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is located in the
Jesus Maria district, and a dental clinic owned by the university is located in the district of
San Luis. The USMP has four language centers in the city of Lima, located in the districts of Jesus Maria, Santa Anita,
San Isidro and
Pueblo Libre. It also has an art institute and a government institute located in the district of
Miraflores.
See also
*
Club Deportivo Universidad de San Martín de Porres
*
CV Universidad de San Martín de Porres
References
Bibliography
* Tauro del Pino, Alberto: ''Enciclopedia Ilustrada del Perú''. Third edition. Vol. 16. TAB/UYU. Lima, PEISA, 2001.
External links
*
Official Online Education siteNoticias FCCTP , Facultad de Ciencias de la Comunicación Turismo y Psicología - USMPTuna of the University of Saint Martín de Porresfrom
Lima
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