Topic summary
Universidad de Oriente
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Universidad de Oriente (Venezuela).
History
The Universidad de Oriente was founded on 21 November 1958 by Decree Law No. 459 published in the Official Gazette of the Republic of Venezuela No. 25,831 by the Governing Board chaired by Edgar Sanabria, as Minister of Education on Rafael Pizani, under the leadership of its founder, Rector Luis Manuel Peñalver. It became operational on 12 February 1959, which marked the birth of the University and a year later, with 113 students and a dozen teachers, in an old mansion of Cumana Caiguire sector. On 29 March 1960, the republic's president, Rómulo Betancourt, officially opening the Universidad de Oriente, an act on the former site of the School "Pedro Arnal".