1999 UNAM strike In January 1999, Francisco Barnés de Castro, then rector of the UNAM, announced his intention to raise tuition. Attempts to raise tuition since 1948 had failed twice before, most recently in the late 1980s under Rector Jorge Carpizo MacGregor. Barnés proposed a number of reforms, including a tuition raise from about 0.02 dollars to about 150 dollars per academic year. Barnés promised the additional 48 million dollars the university would receive from the tuition increase would be used to fund more research and increase the quality of its facilities; the proposal also included a plan for tuition remission for students
School of Political and Social Sciences, UNAM School of Political and Social Sciences, UNAM The Facultad de Ciencias Políticas y Sociales (FCPyS, "Faculty of Political and Social Sciences") is a faculty within Mexico's Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), responsible for directing research and teaching programs in the fields of political science and social science. It was first established in 1951 as the Escuela Nacional de Ciencias Políticas y Sociales (ENCPyS, "National School of Political and Social Sciences"), before its conversion to full faculty status from 26 January 1968. FCPyS offers five academic degrees at the "Licenciatura" (undergraduate) level, in public administration, Communication studies, political science, international