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Thursday, October 21, 1993
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KU grad directs Nicaraguan university
$ ^{2} $Helps young school as one of five deans
By Kathleen Stolle Kansan staff writer
In February, two months after earning her doctorate in history, KU graduate Manuela Knapp Aguilar plunged into the murky waters of Nicaraguan academia.
"I had no experience in this," she said. "I jumped in the cold water."
Eight months later, she and the country's newest university are afloat.
Aguilar became one of the first administrators at the Universidad Autonoma Americana in February after reading about the fledgling institution in a Nicaraguan newspaper. She came to KU in 1984 as an exchange student from Germany and moved to Nicaragua with her husband Leonel in 1991.
The university was founded last November by a group of professors disenchanted with the government-supported university system.
"There's a lot of politics involved and there's never any money," Aguilar said.
The institution, which is in the capital city of Managua, is private and does not receive government support. Its 1,000 students and 45 professors use three buildings for classrooms. Construction on the first official campus building will be completed in March.
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Four degrees — computer science, business administration, law and international relations — are offered this semester. Aguilar said several more would be added next year.
As one of five deans, Aguilar is responsible for the department of international relations. She and an assistant design courses, hire professors and select materials for the department's 250 majors.
"It's kind of an idealistic program, but so far it's working very well," Angular said.
Carl Strikwerda, associate professor of history, has organized a book drive for Universidad Autonoma Americana. Donors may leave texts, journals and reference works at 3001 Wesco Hall, office of the department of history. Topics in diplomatic history, international relations and political science are in demand. The materials should be in English.
She said she hoped to have a graduate student exchange with KU by 1995.
In addition to a shortage of funds and textbooks, the university has felt the nation's political turbulence.
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Classes were suspended for a period in August when loyalists to the former Sandinista government took hostages in a building near the university. The action was in response to hostage-taking by former Contra rebels several days earlier.
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A transportation strike also disrupted classes. Aguilar said she expected the semester to run over by about two weeks.
"I remember it very well because we were very upset because we had to stop classes," Aguilar said.
Those kinds of complications persuaded Ana Alicia Acevedo, Granada, Nicaragua, junior, to come to KU after three years at Nicaragua's largest university, Universidad de Nicaragua Autonoma Nacional.
The semester before Acevedo left for KU, all Nicaraguan universities suspended classes for 48 days in protest of the government's reluctance to meet funding demands. Although the matter was eventually resolved, Acevedo said she did not think higher education was a high priority for the government of President Violeta Chamorro.
"I feel like the government in my country is not interested in education," she said.
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