History at the Autonomous University of Santo Domingo (UASD)
http:/ / uasd.edu. do The University of Santo Domingo was established by the Bull In Apostolatus Culmine, issued on October 28, 1538, by Pope Paul III, who rose to that category, the General Survey was run by the Dominicans since 1518, in Santo Sunday, viceregal capital of colonization and the oldest colonial settlement in the New World.
University Alcala de Henares, was his model and as such was the standard bearer of resurgent ideas that arose from the medieval world, which emerged in Spain in the days of
conquest.
"The University began teaching emerging organized into four faculties: Medicine, Law, Theology and Arts, under the rules established at the time for the institutions in the metropolis. Arts studies included two types, namely: the "trivium" which included grammar, rhetoric and logic and the "quadrivium", which includes arithmetic, geometry, astronomy and music. " Vicissitudes
In 1801 following the Haitian occupation in the country, the University discontinued its operation because the Dominicans that the regent left the colony. It reopened in 1815, returning the colony to English sovereignty, but from then adopts the secular nature.
Between 1815 and 1821 worked under the Rector Dr. José Núñez de Cáceres. The University closes its doors in 1822 because a large number of students were recruited for military service by order of the Haitian regime that ruled the nation. With the completion of the Independence of the Republic in 1844, is born in the Dominican will restore University, a symbol of cultural tradition and the character of the newly acquired nationality.
response to that claim, the June 16, 1859, President Pedro Santana passed a law reintroducing the old University of Santo Domingo, with a formal composition similar to that of medieval universities (four faculties: Philosophy, Jurisprudence, Medical Sciences and Holy Scripture) and as an agency of central government through the Directorate General of Public Instruction and the State Secretariat for.
But for reasons of political contingencies, that provision was not implemented and the University is not reabrió.El December 31, 1866, was created by decree, the Professional Institute, which ran in place and replace the old University of Santo Domingo.
On May 10, 1891, the Professional Institute closed its doors, until the day August 16, 1895, which reappeared under the rector of Archbishop Merino.
On November 16, 1914, the President, Dr. Ramon Baez, who was also Rector of the Professional Institute, transformed by decree Professional Institute at University of Santo Domingo.
From 1916 to 1924, the University had to stop functioning as a result of American intervention. During the 31 years
tyranny of the dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, the University of Santo Domingo, as the other institutions of the country was deprived of the essential freedoms for the fulfillment of its lofty mission, becoming an instrument of political control spread of totalitarian slogans , at whose injuries were to no avail the limited progress achieved materials that the institution in those years of despotic rule, as was the acquisition of land and the construction of the Ciudad Universitaria. AUTONOMY AND JURISDICTION UNIVERSITARIOLa
Law No.5778 of December 31, 1961 gave the University of autonomy. At that moment he began to struggle to achieve the institutional balance and a climate of cooperation that would allow
develop their creative faculties. But after three decades under the iron will of a regime against all forms of human communication that does not serve its interests, was unable, initially, to use the newly acquired freedom and self-government to fulfill its mission of improving cultural par service and economic development of our people.
On February 17, 1962, was elected the first authorities under the regime of autonomy. SUPPRESSION OF JURISDICTION
Act 5778 on autonomy also devoted parallel jurisdiction campus, but this was suppressed by the government de facto triumvirate through NO.292 Act of June 12, 1964 Camilo Adon Marmolejos