The resignation of the dean in the crisis prior to the restructuring of the Faculty of Architecture of the Universtity of San Carlos de Guatemala

Abstract

Changes in university educational processes tend to cause confrontations between the actors. Generally, it is the students and teachers who resist making modifications and not the authorities, who are the ones who promote them. In the Faculty of 
Architecture of the University of San Carlos, in the early seventies, an inverse phenomenon occurred, it was the students who promoted an academic restructuring
and the authorities who resisted. Little by little, the managers were losing control
and observing how a project they had worked for more than a decade slipped through unexpected actions. The level of cancellation of the directive management and of pressure towards the authorities was such that the students would make the main directors of the academic level resign, which would later also lead to the resignation of the Dean and the dismantling of the teaching staff. But the initial resignation of the dean would not be
accepted by the Superior University Council -CSU- which would give rise to an unprecedented crisis within the university. Subsequently, the CSU, subjected to strong student pressure, tried to change the decision, but the conditions would be different and new constraints would arise.