now entered the Holy Week, I'm not tempted to speak of the processions, parades, hallelujah or palms that would be too easy. A week ago
elections were held Rector UMH, and despite a disgraceful campaign and an even more embarrassing recount, and we finally have new horizon rectory for the next four years.
We've gone from a Rodriguez Marin Ciurana Pastor. Jesus Jesus Tadeo, names are very passionate and for the same task, to lead our university into a model of excellence that is still far away, and what is worse, far removed from the society around him and paid their taxes all this party.
Jesus Rodriguez Marin has been a good Chancellor. Ahead has had a number of years to build from scratch a University and get her in the XXI century. I know that has done what good has been, however, has been left in the bag three unresolved issues that prevent me from putting the score Honoris Cuausa, and surely he regrets most.
The first is that the UMH has failed to cross the Avenue of the Libet. At the moment the University is a ghetto where a number of students living transparent to society Elche (I say this because are not seen), with a number of teachers for that, mostly, Elche is only one place on earth where they go a few hours a week to impart knowledge, but most do not care minimize their economic and cultural daily life, and that also encourages them to engage in their lifestyle.
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The second is to speak the same language as the rest of citizens and particularly local businesses. In his fourteen years in office, Rodriguez Marin has signed more than five thousand agreements with companies, has awarded 37 honorary doctorates (as our neighbor and university centennial Murcia only has 32 in its history) and not go further on Friday honored 148 associates with its own diploma by now be framed. But if you ask those five thousand companies much applied research has provided our expensive university, certainly too many fingers to count they have actually obtained a satisfactory result and even fewer of their own accord that they seek to university researchers to rely on them as usual. University and Enterprise, University and civil society, still on his back without looking at his face and without speaking, beyond a select group of patrician businessmen to whom the University has tried to approach naming them with every kind of honorable and distinguished with participation in the Social Council but have not gone further and that certainly has not permeated into the fabric of the Small businesses are vital to our skeleton.
The third and last has been and is that of humility. I think in this time of rigor and austerity, build a pharaonic campus does not lead to anything good, and an oversizing of infrastructure, faculty, and campus degree programs, there is the most sustainable of all who would wish.
You see it, the new Rector faces a tough task that I sincerely hope that you become a bitter Via Crucis.