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First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &
Francis, an informa company.
This book examines a unique university model for social change-the
University of Central America Jos Sime-n Ca-as (UCA) in El
Salvador, where the military murdered six Jesuit priests and two
women on November 16, 1989.
The book addresses such important questions as: Is the role of a
university to train managers for maintaining the status quo, or to
prepare graduates who will help create a new society? Is the
university an ivory tower, or a center for research on social
problems? Beginning with the historical, social, economic, and
political context of El Salvador, this book examines the university
and the factors that contributed to its changed focus, such as
liberation theology.
The bishops of El Salvador wanted a traditional Catholic
university, but the Jesuits and their lay colleagues established an
institution of Christian inspiration, free from ecclesiastical
entanglements. The rectorate of Luis Achaerandio, S.J. (1969-75)
saw new academic programs, research, and social outreach. The UCA
took over the journal "Estudios Centroamericanos, "which undertook
the analysis of such social issues as the 1969 war with Honduras,
agrarian reform, and the fraudulent elections of 1972.
Rom n Mayorga's term of office included intensified academic and
financial planning, and a sharper focus on crucial national issues,
with the result that rightist bombs began to explode on the campus
and employees were threatened. In 1977, death squads gave the
Jesuits a month to leave the country, or be killed, but the Jesuits
refused to go.
The final chapters cover the Ellacur'a decade: 1979-89. Despite
continued bombings and attacks in the press, the UCA expanded
academic programs, centers for social outreach, and publications,
and played a major role in calling for negotiations to end the
civil war which had erupted in the early 1980s.
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