Instituto Universitario de la Frontera IUFRONT

The Iufront has its origin in a project that concluded the reference frames, legal, feasibility study and curricular designs of each of the specialties; All in accordance with the requirements established by law to authorize the founding of a new university institute. From the conception of the Institute to its creation two years of a complex and demanding process took place. The project was referred in the first instance to the General Department of Higher Education of the Ministry of Education, where it was evaluated in detail. After several modifications of the original project, the presentation of a second stage of the project for its elevation to the National Council of Universities was approved, which reviewed it through the Office of Planning of the University Sector. This, in turn, sent it to the Permanent Secretary of the CNU for consideration by the rectors of the national universities. Finished this process, the project returned to the Ministry of Education and fixed the bond required to guarantee the first semester of activities, the draft decree of creation was submitted to the secretariat of the Council of Ministers.   Finally, on November 16, 1988, the President of the Republic promulgated the corresponding decree.