Centro Universitario Anglo Mexicano - History

History

After structuring and directing Queen Elizabeth´s Jr. high school for several years, it´s principal, some professors and a group of businessmen, joined efforts to plan and create an integral non religious private high school affiliated to UNAM, Mexican National University, which would emphasize critical thinking, scientific research and innovation combined with arts development and competitive sports as an ideal environment for young men and women, serving as a solid platform for college success.

The Anglo Mexican HS, CUAM HS was inaugurated on September 4, 1974, in the residential San José Insurgentes neighborhood, in Mexico City, starting at that time, with 108 students, most of them Queen Elizabeth´s School graduates. With a successful academic and cultural model of their own, after only ten years, expansion came on a new location, CUAM Aguilas which was designed to host larger sports facilities and also serve for the expanding senior class, in the Las Aguilas neighborhood. In 1985, the first regional school was launched in the resort town of Cuernavaca; CUAM Morelos, started with over 120 newcomer students, rapidly consolidating as a magnet for young talents and athletes. In 1989, after a State´s government invitation to improve academic standards and increase college oriented competitive students, CUAM Acapulco was inaugurated, serving a population of over 150 students in high school and for the first time, returning to it´s roots, activating also Jr. high high school level.

According to changing demographics, in 1999, CUAM Águilas was transformed into CEAM Mexico junior high school, as well as the fourth regional CUAM opened, in the city of Cancún, through a strategic alliance with well recognized Centro Escolar BALAM, offering now from kindergarten to high school, K-12. In 2004, CUAM acquired a beautiful property formerly owned by Mexican comedian Mario Moreno "Cantinflas", which became CEAM Morelos Jr. High School, just across the street from CUAM Morelos.

In 2009, CUAM Mexico migrated to a new and beautiful facility next to CEAM Mexico, to Calzada de Las Aguilas 350, leaving behind its traditional location for the last 33 years in the street of Sagredo. Due to the urban violence and criminal high rise, regretfully after leading for more than 20 years as the top school in Acapulco, with the highest official rankings and consistently winning Guerrero´s State academic olympics, CUAM Acapulco closed its operations in the port in 2009.

Presently, CUAM is considered one of the top five high schools in Mexico, having earned a highly respected reputation through the years and for its alumni´s success in college and professionally, proudly holding more than 40 strategic agreements with the top universities in Mexico, having recently added to its allies, Thompson Rivers University, in B.C, Canada, Institutes Nationaux des Sciences Appliquées at Lyon, France and London´s Business and Finance University in the UK, which grant direct admission to CUAM graduates, exempting them of any admission examination, as well as awarding them, with more than 20 college excellence financial grants and scholarships.

CUAM México ranked among the Top Ten in Mexico City by the local Reforma newspaper, is headed by the distinguished calculus professor Javier García, a mechanical engineer from UNAM, with graduate studies from ITESM and Harvard University, who has been with CUAM for the last 37 years. Alumni Mariana Velarde, a sociologyst with graduate studies in education directs CEAM Mexico Jr. High School, which has ranked in the top 5% among the 32,000 high schools in the nation, based on the Mexican Ministry of Education statistics. CUAM Morelos, considered as a strong promoter for young science talents, is headed by well recognized psychologist Anna Julia Robles, who also holds graduate studies in pedagogy from Ibero American University, who formerly served as Williams´ School and London´s School principal, before returning to CUAM. CEAM Morelos´ Jr. High principal, is science activist and distinguished biologist Alma Ayala, who also holds a masters degree on education. Cuam Mexico´s alumni, class of 80, Juan José Arriaga, an UNAM´s canine veterinarian expert, has been heading CUAM Cancun for the last decade, having led this high school to be the leading academic institution in town, hosting a strategic alliance with International House´s, the English knowledge certification international institution for the University of Cambridge, in Cancun.

CUAM has as priority, to develop global skills for the lives their apprentices are going to live, so it actively promotes and engages in several academic field trips and diverse international exchange programmes with schools around the world, which will help their students, to better understand and relate to other cultures, developing friendships and bonds that eventually will become business and investment opportunities, changing their life and vision forever. Current programmes include New York in the USA, under the Bloomberg´s Junior Global Partners initiative, Quebec, British Columbia and the Upper Canada School District, London in the UK, and Prague in the Czeck Republic.

CEAM has consistently obtained one of the highest scores on the national Secretaría de Educación Pública (SEP/ENLACE) test for secondary education. CUAM also leads in Mathematics, Sciences and Business. Athletics is CUAM´s strength, specially in soccer, volleyball, basketball, as well as cheerleading competitions, having won several national titles and ranked 8th place at the USASF Dance Worlds Championship, in Walt Disney´s World in Orlando, Florida in 2010, having had a profound national influence on promoting the sport at all levels, from which, the ANP Mexico, the "Mexican National Cheerleading Association" was born some decades ago.

In partnership with the Morelos´ State Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Science, for the last 24 years, CUAM has co hosted an annual "Students´Research Congress" which holds twelve classes of competition that vary from engineering and exact sciences, prototypes, medical sciences, biochemistry, environmental sciences, arts, social sciences and business entrepreneurship, where jr. high and high school students from about 50 different public and private institutions, coming from more than ten states, present their projects to a panel scientists, research experts and businessmen for the glory of representing Mexico at international events, attending also during the event to presentations and conferences offered by the real people who are discovering and working on the innovations that are changing our world.

This event has gathered more than 9,000 projects through it existence, being considered by the Mexican National Autonomus University (UNAM) and scientific community, as the Mexican leading young talents´discovery forum. The Students´Research Congress is regionally replicated every year in the spring at the Cancun campus, as Caribbean Research Encounter, oriented to soon include schools from Central America.

Annually, CUAM organizes several sports tournaments (called INTERCUAMs) which include social events and local field trips to provide a whole sports experience with intense participant´s integration, on all different campus since the early 90s. In recognition for its extensive sports tradition, in 2007, the Morelos State government awarded CUAM with the State Sports Award .

CUAM has focused its academic strategies on innovation, internationalization and critical thinking as base for developing new sustainable opportunities, empowering young talents to research, analyze and propose ethical answers to the Mexico´s national challenges, emphasizing the students´ privileged academic position as a moral debt to the least fortunate nationals, which are many, for ethically improving the quality of living in Mexico for all Mexicans, following closely Winston Churchill´s remark "To educate a person in mind and not in morals, is to educate a menace to society."

In 2012, Cuam acquired the prestigious Queen Elizabeth School, to integrate Kindergarten and Elementary school, now offering K-12 grade in Mexico City, consolidating as one of the most respected private educational groups.