It’s never too late a presidential call for put order in a university so conflicted as the Autonomous University of Sinaloa, even if in ambiguous terms. His message refers to resolve differences that were not possible to attend to because we were living in political times. This is a confession that suggests that some of the forces at play were in Morena and not necessarily on the part of Ruben Rocha Moya.
The dispute is very drawn. Born out of controversies with the Law of Higher education of Sinaloa which requires transparency and a set of litigations for alleged crimes committed by different officials in the exercise of their positions, which merited the retirement of the principal rector, Ph.D. Jesus Madueña Molina.
At the bottom of all this is a university-party model that effectively perished with the elections of the June 2nd past and that leave the underlying problem visible to everyone.
A new organic law is urgently needed for UAS that restores democracy, transparency and the capacity for accountability. Likewise, update its academic content and resolve the multiple lags it exhibits in physical infrastructure, corrupt administrative processes, school dropouts, political management of the payroll, allocation of economic stimuli based on party preferences. The new law must be advanced, which must be an articulating axis to rebuild that damaged House of Studies, where the new local legislature will have a central role.
Of course there will be a reckoning between what cuenismo has been as an internal political movement and the pretensions of the Governor Rocha Moya to restore autonomy and democracy. All these problems that will have to be discussed with the call of the President of the Republic cannot be the subject of negotiations in the dark, and it will be necessary to incorporate the university community and even the Sinaloan society to express their opinions regarding the type of university that is going. to require Sinaloa, without chiefdoms, democratic and linked to regional development.
It has been insisted during the conflict with the UAS that the main legacy that Rocha Moya can leave to Sinaloa is to help shake the Institution out of its erroneous areas and turn it into a normal university, one that is at the service of university students and Sinaloa society. The President’s timely call serves him on a silver platter for that purpose. Let’s hope that his team and education experts prepare for a negotiation that will not be easy with UAS officials, to reach points of agreement that will make a new public university project viable.
The most delicate part of this negotiation is not going to be even the academic part, but rather the entire trail of maneuvers and legal stratagems that were put into play in the courts during more than a year of trials against Uaseño officials. It will be necessary to reestablish due processes with a conciliatory spirit that avoids revenge or reinforces the bizarre nature of the trials. Sinaloa is faced with a valuable opportunity to demonstrate that it can save the UAS with negotiation strategies of the highest level. The university side also has to make a great contribution to find a viable path for the parties in conflict. It will require very good will on the part of the parties and a vigilant media.
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