Corporate philosophy

Corporate philosophy

Mission

Fundación Universitaria María Cano is a multi-campus higher education institution with a presence in local, regional, and national contexts. It is guided by a territorial perspective and by the recognition of diversity; committed to social outreach and sustainability in the development of its core functions; and focused on educating individuals with critical thinking, social commitment, and a glocal perspective.

Vision

Fundación Universitaria María Cano, as a higher education institution, will be recognized for educating entrepreneurial and innovative individuals; for its academic excellence and the quality of its services; for the transfer of knowledge to address the problems and needs of communities and organizations; for its participation in national and international knowledge and cooperation partnerships and networks; and for its contribution to the development and transformation of territories.

Principles

Respect

We recognize the importance of knowledge and of acknowledging human beings, as well as their potential to transform themselves and their surroundings, learn, make decisions, express themselves, and inhabit the world.

Equity

We promote a sense of justice and dignity among individuals, human groups, and cultures by valuing and addressing their origins and diversity, as well as by fostering communication and interaction among individuals and groups with specific cultural identities.

Excellence

We strive for quality in all institutional endeavors, as well as for the well-being of the people who make up the Institution and of the contexts in which it participates and has an impact.

Leadership

We recognize the role that individuals play in making sound decisions for the collective, as well as their contribution to achieving group objectives that benefit communities and organizations.

Transparency

We value individual, collective, and institutional honesty in the ways we act and interact with our surroundings, as well as the ethical stance that ensures the protection of the integrity of individuals, the Institution, and individual and collective resources.

Co-responsibility

We promote the commitment and willingness of each stakeholder to assume their respective role in institutional life, as well as their responsibility for the achievements and outcomes of the tasks and processes carried out, with full awareness of the impact of their participation within the institutional framework and their social role.

Participation

We value the involvement of all stakeholders in institutional life so that they can take part in and contribute to processes, activities, and initiatives, as well as influence management and decision-making processes that affect the community.

Diversity

We embrace the diversity of personal characteristics that make each human being unique and different, as well as the intersectionality and plurality of identities that enrich societies.

The shield

The shield of the Maria Cano University synthesizes its educative mission and the vision it has about its destiny and its projection on the society from which it emerged and still serves.

The coat of arms, in its colors, expresses the excellence of its pedagogical offer, the ecumenical sense of the knowledge it disseminates and the serene critical judgment on itself and on the social sphere and the time in which it acts.

And it also expresses the love that unites it with its university community, with the soul of its structure that is the vivifying mass of its students. Carrying the shield of the Institution is a privilege and a distinction that we must assume with all the force of its expressiveness.

The Flag

The flag of the Maria Cano University preserves the symbols of its philosophy and its vocation in higher education, displaying the colors that represent the quality of its professorship and the transparency of its ethical principles.

The institutional pavilion flames its subtle fabric to the spell of the winds of change and renewal of the new times. A pavilion that embodies the spirit of the Institution, constituted in a daring and ideal educational proposal for the achievement of a better society, projected towards the improvement of its structures, its intellectual and scientific progress, and its solidarity cohesion.

The Logo

The open book to the world: The constant evolution and change, the mind open to learning, the requirements of a globalized society, the interaction between the student, the teacher and the environment in which they perform. The capacity for transformation, the projection of institutional action. With the green color, the institutional origin is represented: Antioquia, the birthplace of both Maria Cano and the Maria Cano University in 1987. Likewise, it is the commitment assumed by showing respect to the environment, which we publicly declare to the society; even more in a world that, every day, witnesses the devastation of nature, product of the disrespect that humans have caused.

The circle of knowledge: Open because it also symbolizes the struggling spirit of Maria Cano, the possibility of projecting herself into the cosmos and having a critical thought, a social commitment and a global vision, as expressed in the new institutional mission, approved by the Superior Council in 2017. It is divided into two parts, exactly the same, as a sample of the coherence between the speech and the executions of Maria Cano.

The central axis: It is a clear sign of respect for women as the core of society, which integrates the family, the basis of transformative dynamics which allow to have more prominence in a world that recognizes Maria de Los Angeles Cano Marquez as example of leadership and nobility … A person who, in the first decades of the twentieth century, was destined to a role of complete submission and silence, but which stirred the masses and was not afraid of being in the midst of controversy, going through the regions of the country and speaking at public squares to defend the rights of all Colombians.