Before the university community of the Medellín campus, made up of students, professors, collaborators, graduates and managers; members of the General Assembly of the María Cano University Foundation accompanied the rector Hugo Alberto Valencia Porras, in the symbolic delivery of the start of the construction works of the new physical infrastructure of the Institution in the capital of Antioquia. The headquarters expansion project contributes to the institution’s 2017-2026 development plan. Once the construction phase is complete, there will be two completely new buildings, one with 8 and one with 11 floors, which will have an approximate area of ​​5,522 square meters. of spaces for the enjoyment and development of academic and administrative activities.

In the activity, Mrs. Ligia González Betancur, president of the Superior Council expressed: «In my capacity as founder, first rector of the Institution 36 years ago and president of the Superior University Council, I want to express, on behalf of all the founders, directors and Assembly members, that this new physical infrastructure project can be defined with two fundamental words:

Institutional Commitment: with education, with quality, with accreditation, with the expansion of the academic offer in undergraduate and postgraduate courses, with the families that have trusted María Cano for the education of their children and their loved ones. The Institution has an important development plan that contemplates the growth of the infrastructure in the headquarters where we are present and that begins to see the fruits with this new space that will be created for respect, the strengthening of education, the consolidation of regions and the growing institutional positioning. You will feel more and more proud to be part of the María Cano University Foundation.

Believe the country: we are convinced that our country will grow, with the support of each one of us, Colombians. Every day we will work from the different fronts of society to create employment, so that the new generations are prepared, so that current professionals continue to qualify and, above all, so that we advance on the paths of growth and development that we so badly need to provide excellent quality of life for each of the inhabitants».

For his part, the Occupational Therapy student, Nicolás Hernández, on behalf of his classmates, expressed: «This new building will not only provide us with a physical space to learn, investigate and create from health sciences, business sciences and engineering; but it will also serve as a meeting point for all our ideas and projects that will guide us towards success, based on a job in which our entire community contributes.In this sense, this gratitude is also a commitment from us as a community of students to use, care for and preserve each of the spaces that you have dreamed of for us.

We recognize that this space will not only be our home in the physical sense, but also in a symbolic sense that it will be the place where we will forge our knowledge, relationships, practices, projects, ideas, dreams and also where we will learn to solve the different difficulties that come our way. present throughout our professional and postgraduate training».

The new physical infrastructure project will last 18 months and its delivery is scheduled for the first half of 2025.

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