Imanol Ordorika Sacristán
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Imanol Ordorika Sacristán (born in Mexico City, October 31, 1958). Mexican social activist, political leader, academic and intellectual. He was one of the initiators and principal leaders of the Consejo Estudiantil Universitario at the National Autonomous University of Mexico
(Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, UNAM), with Carlos Imaz Gispert and Antonio Santos Romero, from 1986 to 1990. A founder and prominent member of the Partido de la Revolución Democrática (PRD
) until 2001. Professor of social sciences and education at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico. Op-ed writer for La Jornada
and other Mexican media.
and Maria Josefa Sacristan, Spanish Civil War refugees from the Basque country and Madrid respectively. As part of a progressive family he became acquainted with the ideals of Spanish left wing republicanism, with the Cuban Revolution, and with the 1968 Mexican student movement, since his early childhood.
, and later Convergencia Comunista 7 de enero (CC7). He became an important student leader and representative to UNAM’s University Council and gained national prominence with the creation of the Consejo Estudiantil Universitario in 1986.
As a student member of the Council first, and with the Consejo Estudiantil, starting on October 31, 1986, Ordorika rejected structural adjustment policies affecting Mexican universities and, more concretely, attempts to increase tuition, restrictive student selection policies and standardized testing, proposed by rector Jorge Carpizo McGregor
, at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico. Ordorika participated in public debates (dialogos publicos) between UNAM administrators and student leaders at the Che Guevara
/Justo Sierra
auditorium, transmitted live by university radio and featured prominently by the Mexican media in January 1987. During the student strike in February he was one of the selected spokespersons until CEU defeated Carpizo's structural adjustment reforms.
´ independent presidential candidacy against the ruling Partido Revolucionario Institucional’s Carlos Salinas
. For this purpose they created the Movimiento al Socialismo (MAS) notably featuring Adolfo Gilly, Salvador Martínez della Rocca, Enrique González Rojo
, Raul Alvarez Garin and others.
He was one of the founder and leaders of newly formed left wing party Partido de la Revolución Democrática (PRD), led by Cárdenas. Ordorika was a member of PRD's National Committee from 1990 to 1995. In 1994 he ran as this party's candidate for Federal Congress in Mexico City district XXII.
During the 2000 presidential electoral process Ordorika was appointed spokesperson and campaign head of communications for left wing candidate Cuauhtemoc Cardenas
. After the elections and the 2001 PRD congress Ordorika distanced himself from this party and exercised a strong critique against its bureaucratic trends and centrist political positions.
Imanol Ordorika is also involved in the Mexican contemporary political debate as a public speaker, an editorial writer at La Jornada
and a media commentator.
Ordorika obtained masters degrees in education (1993) and sociology (1998) as well as a Ph.D degree in social sciences and education from the Stanford University School of Education
(1999). He has been a full professor at UNAM since 2002. Ordorika is a renowned faculty member and higher education specialist in Mexico and abroad. He has written extensively on power relations and politics within postsecondary institutions, faculty and student movements, higher education policy and on the impact of globalization on colleges and universities. In 2004 Ordorika received the Frank Talbott Jr. Visiting University Chair from the University of Virginia
and in 2006 he was awarded the Alfonso Reyes Chaire des Etudes Mexicaines by the University of Paris
III (Sorbonne Nouvelle).
Since 2007 Imanol Ordorika is General Director for Institutional Assessment (Director General de Evaluación Institucional) at UNAM. Here has has been in charge of the design and development of the Mexican Universities Comparative Study
.
National Autonomous University of Mexico
The Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México is a university in Mexico. UNAM was founded on 22 September 1910 by Justo Sierra as a liberal alternative to the Roman Catholic-sponsored Royal and Pontifical University of Mexico The Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) (National Autonomous...
(Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, UNAM), with Carlos Imaz Gispert and Antonio Santos Romero, from 1986 to 1990. A founder and prominent member of the Partido de la Revolución Democrática (PRD
PRD
-Political parties:*Partido Renovador Democrático, a political party in Angola*Parti de Renouveau Démocratique, a political party in Benin*Partido Revolucionario Dominicano, a political party in the Dominican Republic...
) until 2001. Professor of social sciences and education at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico. Op-ed writer for La Jornada
La Jornada
La Jornada is one of Mexico City's leading daily newspapers. It was established in 1984 by Carlos Payán Velver. The current editor is Carmen Lira Saade...
and other Mexican media.
Biography
Imanol Ordorika Sacristan is the son of Imanol Ordorika BengoecheaBengoechea
Bengoetxea , Bengoechea or Bengoetchea is a Basque surname which is common all throughout the Basque Country, specially in cities such as: Murelaga, Lizarza, Alkitza, Aizarna, Aulestia, Igeldo , Oiartzun, Aia, Olaberria, Lazkano, Berrobi and Zizurkil in...
and Maria Josefa Sacristan, Spanish Civil War refugees from the Basque country and Madrid respectively. As part of a progressive family he became acquainted with the ideals of Spanish left wing republicanism, with the Cuban Revolution, and with the 1968 Mexican student movement, since his early childhood.
Student Activism
Ordorika majored in physics at the Facultad de Ciencias in the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México in 1991. It is during his student days in the 1980s that he became a militant of the Mexican revolutionary left (izquierda revolucionaria) through the Committee Estudiantil de Solidaridad Obrero Campesina (CESOC) and as a member of Revista Punto Critico, a marxist organization and journal founded by the leaders of the 1968 Mexican student movementTlatelolco massacre
The Tlatelolco massacre, also known as The Night of Tlatelolco , was a government massacre of student and civilian protesters and bystanders that took place during the afternoon and night of October 2, 1968, in the Plaza de las Tres Culturas in the Tlatelolco section of Mexico City...
, and later Convergencia Comunista 7 de enero (CC7). He became an important student leader and representative to UNAM’s University Council and gained national prominence with the creation of the Consejo Estudiantil Universitario in 1986.
As a student member of the Council first, and with the Consejo Estudiantil, starting on October 31, 1986, Ordorika rejected structural adjustment policies affecting Mexican universities and, more concretely, attempts to increase tuition, restrictive student selection policies and standardized testing, proposed by rector Jorge Carpizo McGregor
Jorge Carpizo McGregor
Jorge Carpizo Mac Gregor is a Mexican jurist who has occupied various high rank positions in the government of Mexico.Carpizo is the son of Óscar Carpizo Berrón and Luz María Mac Gregor Dondé...
, at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico. Ordorika participated in public debates (dialogos publicos) between UNAM administrators and student leaders at the Che Guevara
Che Guevara
Ernesto "Che" Guevara , commonly known as el Che or simply Che, was an Argentine Marxist revolutionary, physician, author, intellectual, guerrilla leader, diplomat and military theorist...
/Justo Sierra
Justo Sierra
Justo Sierra Méndez , was a prominent Mexican writer, journalist, poet and political figure of the second half of the nineteenth century. He was the son of Mexican novelist Justo Sierra O'Reilly, who is credited with inspiring his son with the spirit of literature...
auditorium, transmitted live by university radio and featured prominently by the Mexican media in January 1987. During the student strike in February he was one of the selected spokespersons until CEU defeated Carpizo's structural adjustment reforms.
National Politics
In 1988 Ordorika, Santos and Imaz led Mexican university students to support Cuauhtemoc CardenasCuauhtémoc Cárdenas
Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas Solórzano is a prominent Mexican politician. He was a former Head of Government of the Federal District and a founder of the Party of the Democratic Revolution .-Biography:...
´ independent presidential candidacy against the ruling Partido Revolucionario Institucional’s Carlos Salinas
Carlos Salinas
Carlos Salinas de Gortari is a Mexican economist and politician affiliated to the Institutional Revolutionary Party who served as President of Mexico from 1988 to 1994. Earlier in his career he worked in the Budget Secretariat all the way up to Secretary...
. For this purpose they created the Movimiento al Socialismo (MAS) notably featuring Adolfo Gilly, Salvador Martínez della Rocca, Enrique González Rojo
Enrique González Rojo, Jr.
Enrique González Rojo in fact Enrique González Arthur , is a Mexican writer, philosopher and teacher.- Biography :...
, Raul Alvarez Garin and others.
He was one of the founder and leaders of newly formed left wing party Partido de la Revolución Democrática (PRD), led by Cárdenas. Ordorika was a member of PRD's National Committee from 1990 to 1995. In 1994 he ran as this party's candidate for Federal Congress in Mexico City district XXII.
During the 2000 presidential electoral process Ordorika was appointed spokesperson and campaign head of communications for left wing candidate Cuauhtemoc Cardenas
Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas
Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas Solórzano is a prominent Mexican politician. He was a former Head of Government of the Federal District and a founder of the Party of the Democratic Revolution .-Biography:...
. After the elections and the 2001 PRD congress Ordorika distanced himself from this party and exercised a strong critique against its bureaucratic trends and centrist political positions.
Imanol Ordorika is also involved in the Mexican contemporary political debate as a public speaker, an editorial writer at La Jornada
La Jornada
La Jornada is one of Mexico City's leading daily newspapers. It was established in 1984 by Carlos Payán Velver. The current editor is Carmen Lira Saade...
and a media commentator.
Academic Life
In 1989 he became adjunct professor at the Instituto de Investigaciones Económicas at UNAM, even though he actually majored in Physics until 1991. From 1988 to 1990 he was elected member of the organizing committee for the University Congress at this university. In 1990, he was elected faculty representative to the University Congress.Ordorika obtained masters degrees in education (1993) and sociology (1998) as well as a Ph.D degree in social sciences and education from the Stanford University School of Education
Stanford University School of Education
The Stanford University School of Education , is one of the seven schools of Stanford University. It is the second-oldest school of education in the United States, after NYU...
(1999). He has been a full professor at UNAM since 2002. Ordorika is a renowned faculty member and higher education specialist in Mexico and abroad. He has written extensively on power relations and politics within postsecondary institutions, faculty and student movements, higher education policy and on the impact of globalization on colleges and universities. In 2004 Ordorika received the Frank Talbott Jr. Visiting University Chair from the University of Virginia
University of Virginia
The University of Virginia is a public research university located in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States, founded by Thomas Jefferson...
and in 2006 he was awarded the Alfonso Reyes Chaire des Etudes Mexicaines by the University of Paris
University of Paris
The University of Paris was a university located in Paris, France and one of the earliest to be established in Europe. It was founded in the mid 12th century, and officially recognized as a university probably between 1160 and 1250...
III (Sorbonne Nouvelle).
Since 2007 Imanol Ordorika is General Director for Institutional Assessment (Director General de Evaluación Institucional) at UNAM. Here has has been in charge of the design and development of the Mexican Universities Comparative Study
Mexican Universities Comparative Study
International rankings have impacted higher education policy as well as colleges and universities all over the world...
.
Books
- Ordorika, I., López R., (2007), Política Azul y Oro: Historias orales, relaciones de poder y disputa universitaria, México, DF, Seminario de Educación Superior-UNAM / Plaza y Valdés.
- Ordorika, I. (2006), La disputa por el campus: Poder, política y autonomía en la UNAM, México, DF, Seminario de Educación Superior-UNAM / CESU-UNAM / Plaza y Valdés.
- Ordorika, I. (2003), Power and Politics in University Governance: Organization and Change at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, New York, NY, Routledge Falmer.
- Ordorika, I. (Ed.), (2004), La academia en jaque: Perspectivas políticas sobre la evaluación de la educación superior en México, México, DF, Seminario de Educación Superior-UNAM/CRIM-UNAM / Grupo Editorial Miguel Angel Porrua.
- Martínez Della Rocca, Salvador y Ordorika, Imanol, (1993), UNAM, espejo del mejor México posible: la universidad en el contexto educativo nacional, México, DF, Ediciones Era.
Book Chapters
- Marginson, Simon y Ordorika, Imanol (in press). “‘El central volumen de la fuerza’ (The hegemonic global pattern in the reorganization of elite higher education and research)”. In Rhoten, Diana y Calhoun, Craig (Eds.) The Transformation of “Public” Research Universities: Shaping an International and Interdisciplinary Research Agenda for the Social Sciences. Social Science Research Council Press, New York.
- Ordorika, Imanol (2009). “Commitment to society: contemporary challenges for public research universities.” Higher Education at a Time of Transformation (New Dynamics for Social Responsibility). Global University Network for Innovation. Palgrave-Macmillan, New York, pp. 72–74. Also published in Spanish in La Educación Superior en Tiempos de Cambio(Nuevas dinámicas para la responsabilidad social). Ediciones Mundi-Prensa. Barcelona, pp. 72–74.
- Ordorika, Imanol (2008). “Commitment to society: contemporary challenges for public research universities.” Higher Education in the World 3 (Higher Education: New Challenges and Emerging Roles for Human and Social Development). Global University Network for Innovation. Palgrave-Macmillan, New York, pp. 14–19. Also in La Educación Superior en el Mundo 2008. Ediciones Mundi-Prensa. Barcelona, pp. 14–19.
- Ordorika, Imanol (2008). “Violencia y porrismo en la educación superior en México”. In Bertussi, Guadalupe Teresinha (Ed.) Anuario educativo mexicano: visión retrospectiva, año 2005, Universidad Pedagógica Nacional - Miguel Ángel Porrúa, México, pp. 459–475. Also online at http://anuario.upn.mx/site/static/26_Ordorika.pdf.
- Ordorika, Imanol and Pusser, Brian. (2007). “La máxima casa de estudios: The Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México as a State-Building University.” In Altbach, Philip y Balán, Jorge (Eds.) World-Class Worldwide: Transforming Research Universities in Asia and Latin America. Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 189–215. Also published in Chinese, in 2007, by Shanghai Jiao Tong University Press, pp. 161–181 and in Korean, in 2007, by Yoyoowahaksa, pp. 185–214.
- Bensimon, Estela y Ordorika, Imanol. (2005). “Mexico’s Estímulos: Faculty compensation based on piece-work.” In Rhoades, A Robert and Torres, Carlos (Editors). The political economy of globalization: The University, State and Markets in the Americas. Stanford University Press.
Articles
- Ordorika, Imanol (2008). “Los límites de la autonomía universitaria.” Educación Superior: cifras y hechos, Centro de Investigaciones Interdisciplinarias en Ciencias y Humanidades, UNAM, no. 39-40, vol. 7, May–August, pp. 24–40.
- Ordorika, Imanol (2007). “Universidades y globalización: tendencias hegemónicas y construcción de alternativas.” Revista Educación Superior y Sociedad, IESALC-UNESCO, Numero 1, Año 12, Nueva Época, pp. 175–190.
- Ordorika, Imanol (2006). “Educación superior y globalización; las universidades públicas frente a una nueva hegemonía”. Andamios: Revista de investigación social, no. 5, January 2007.
- Ordorika, Imanol and Navarro, Mina Alejandra (2006). “Investigación académica y políticas públicas en la educación superior: El caso mexicano de pago por méritos”. Revista del Centro de Estudios y Documentación sobre la Educación Superior Puertorriqueña, vol. I, no. 1, November 2006. http://www.gobierno.pr/NR/rdonlyres/47DA454B-BA0F-4F1A-9D69-DF3828C132A3/0/revistaCEDESP.pdf
- Rhoades, G., Maldonado-Maldonado, A., Ordorika, I., & Velásquez, M. (2004). “Imagining Alternativas to Global, Corporate, New Economy Academic Capitalism”. Policy Futures in Education, II (2).
- Ordorika, I. (2003). “The limits of university autonomy: Power and politics at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.” Higher Education: the international journal of higher education and educational planning, Vol. 46, Num. 3, pp. 361–388.
- Ordorika, Imanol and Kenneth Kempner. (2003), “Valores en disputa e identidad en conflicto en la educación superior en México”, Perfiles Educativos, vol. 25, no. 99, pp. 5–27.
External links
- http://www.ses.unam.mx/integrantes/ordorika/
- Curriculum Vitae
- Imanol Ordorika Wikipedia en español