Lilian Hernandez Osorio
La Jornada Newspaper
Wednesday, December 17, 2025, p. 8
In the last quarter of this year, around 20 percent of the teachers at the South College of Sciences and Humanities were paid without working, as they did not provide online classes after in-person activities were suspended following the crime that occurred on campus.
They received three months of salary and bonus without making a virtual presence before their students, so that not only did they fail in their teaching responsibility, but they left their students without classes and with truncated learning.
However, the statute of the UNAM academic staff does not require them to teach online classes, because there is no section on this modality, and they must only comply in person, where determined by the technical council of the campus.
Furthermore, the employment contract establishes that their activities have to be in person, so that legally they did not incur a breach, but their absence left almost 12 thousand CCH Sur students in academic limbo in the subjects they teach.
Official data from the CCH indicate that the teaching staff at the South campus is 667, of which 438 are subject teachers and 229 are career teachers, which represents an approximate proportion of 65.6 percent and 34.4 percent, respectively.
Of the more than 660 teachers on this campus, around 130 teachers, most of them career and full-time, decided not to teach their 20 hours a week of classes remotely as about 640 teachers did, since the EPA does not establish it, and in article 61 it only states that “career, part-time and full-time staff have the obligation to carry out teaching and research tasks, according to the distribution of time made by the technical council.”
