Km 5 Vía Maicao, Riohacha – La Guajira (Colombia)
The University of La Guajira (Spanish: Universidad de La Guajira, Wayuu: Shikii Ekirajia Pulee Wajira), also known as Uniguajira, is a public, departmental, coeducational, university based primarily in the city of Riohacha, La Guajira, Colombia. The university was established by ordinance No. 011 and 012 of 1976, by the Departmental Assembly, and opened in February 1977. Its main campus, known as the University Citadel (Spanish: Ciudadela Universitaria), is located in the outskirts of the city, and it hosts the faculties of Basic Sciences, Economic and Administrative Sciences, Education Sciences, Engineering, and Social and Humanity Sciences. The university also has several satellite campuses across the department in the cities of Albania, Fonseca, Maicao, Manaure, and Villanueva, and one campus in the department of Córdoba in the city of Montería. The university offers education at technical, undergraduate and postgraduate levels. The mascot is a jellyfish, symbolizing power and simplicity. The University of La Guajira, has to contribute to preserve the legacy of HONESTY and ETHICS, for which it considers that its institutional effort will focus on achieving from all its actors and estates an HONEST attitude from which it derives its habitual behavior bringing as a consequence that the institution strives to promote the sense of the deep and integral value of the human being, for which it must promote and inculcate in all scenarios and activities the following values that derive from being HONEST: Honesty, tolerance, equanimity, rigor, transparency, austerity, recognition, solidarity, affectivity, teamwork, equity, sense of belonging, respect and loyalty ; consequently, HONESTYit becomes the guiding and unifying principle of the other stated values, in order to approach the ideal of achieving the practice of values within daily life, and thus strengthen the image of the University of La Guajira in all social spheres, academic and administrative in which it works.
School Director: Carlos Arturo Robles Julio
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