The University Reform of Córdoba. Origin. Development. Future

The University Reform of Cordoba was a response to the Latin American University before 1918, which carried in its bosom monarchic and monastic residues typical of the Middle Ages, a University at the service mainly of those who could pay the tuition, coming from the conservative agricultural groups, with lifetime professorships, great ceremonies similar to the royal and episcopal ones. To this backward University, due to the inheritance coming from Spain, the Napoleonic model was added after the Independence of the countries, which put these institutions at the service of the State and only for teaching, leaving scientific research unimportant, thus increasing the intellectual backwardness, and without offering services to the communities due to their own enclosure. Against this situation, the student rebellion at the University of Cordoba spread to other Argentine universities and Latin American universities, where the Student Federations devoted much of their efforts to transfer the university reform to society.