UNAM budget for 2023 will be $52 thousand 728 million

Fernando Camacho Servin

Newspaper La Jornada
Friday December 9, 2022, p. 16

The University Council (CU) of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) yesterday approved its budget for 2023, which will be a total of 52 thousand 728 million pesos, which will allow the organization to have certainty and institutional soliditypointed out authorities of the highest house of studies.

In the last ordinary session of the CU of the year, it was detailed that the resources granted by the federal government to UNAM for 2023 will amount to 47 thousand 659 million pesos, which represents an increase of 6.3 percent compared to 2022.

To this is added 5 thousand 69 million pesos that the University expects to generate as its own income –27 percent more than in the previous year–, for the total of 52 thousand 728 million announced.

The Secretary of Administration, Luis Álvarez-Icaza, explained that the teaching function will absorb 32 thousand 500 million pesos (61 percent of the total funds) next year, while almost 14 billion pesos (26 percent) will be allocated to research work. percent) and 450 million (7 percent) for university extension.

He stressed that 4.56 percent of the budget will be used for institutional management, putting ourselves in the line of keeping expenses at bay, below 5 percent.

It was stressed that in 2023 UNAM will come out tables with inflationestimated at 8.3 percent, so in real terms, the budget will be identical to that of 2022.

By participating remotely -due to being infected with influenza-, the rector Enrique Graue Wiechers considered that in 2023 we will have a sufficient budget for the University to continue performing its substantive functions.

In the hybrid session held at the Old School of Medicine, it was agreed to create the National School of Forensic Sciences and the plan and study program for the degree in applied sociology, which will be taught at the National School of Higher Studies Unit Mérida.

The CU plenary unanimously approved granting the appointment of emeritus researcher to Henry Dan Leff Zimmerman for the exceptionality of his work as a researcher, teacher and disseminator of environmental sociology, as well as a promoter and activist in the care of nature.

He also endorsed the shortlist that he will send to the Governing Board to replace Othón Canales Treviño, who finished his duties as a member of the University Board of Trustees. The proposal includes Francisco Javier Fonseca Corona, Elsa Beatriz García Bojorges and Eduardo Gilberto Loría Díaz de Guzmán.

Beatriz Ortega Guerrero, Francisco Javier Marichi Rodríguez and Vicente Jesús Hernández Abad, appointed by the Governing Board to direct the National School of Earth Sciences and the Faculties of Dentistry and Higher Education Zaragoza, respectively, took oath as advisers.