▲ The facilities of the South College of Sciences and Humanities have been closed since September 22.Photo Jair Cabrera
Carolina Gomez Mena
La Jornada Newspaper
Saturday, November 15, 2025, p. 8
The 11,400 students of the College of Sciences and Humanities South campus (CCH South) of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) will not return to face-to-face classes next week, as they had been told unofficially, to students during their virtual classes.
The CCH Sur was closed after the murder of the 16-year-old student Jesús Israel, almost two months ago, and since that date work has been carried out to improve security conditions on campus, including the installation of turnstiles with biometric detection and metal detectors. For this purpose, the students were invited to take photographs a few days ago.
Hours after a meeting that members of the student community, together with mothers and fathers, had yesterday outside the institution, where they raised their concerns about the eventual return to in-person classes and compliance with the request list, the campus management issued a statement: “Based on the evaluation of the progress of the infrastructure works being carried out, the decision was made to postpone the return to in-person academic activities, until the work is completed.”
Yesterday, after noon, the mothers and fathers spoke with Secretary General Noé Israel Reyna, who told them that an official communication would be issued later. “It still stands that a statement will be issued today, there is no reason to be alarmed, there is no change. The date (return to face-to-face classes) is tentative and this depends on the completion of the works. We already saw in the previous meetings that there will be a return once the works are completed and the points of the document have been fulfilled,” said the official. According to the mothers, fathers and students, the teachers have downloaded the information that on Tuesday (November 18) they are going to return, they even tell them see you on Tuesday and also to the students at the time of taking the photo they told them that you will deliver it on Tuesday.”
