River Plate Adventist University (Spanish Universidad Adventista del Plata) (UAP) is a private Christian coeducational university in Libertador San Martin, Entre Ríos, Argentina, founded in 1898.
The University began as a small rural training school. It later became Colegio Adventista del Plata. After receiving the CONEAU accreditation in the 1990s and the signing of the decree of President Eduardo Duhalde in 2002, it became the Universidad Adventista del Plata. In 1994, its medical school was founded.
River Plate Adventist University is part of the educational system of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, part of thousands of academic institutions around the world. Academic activities take place on a campus covering 18 hectares. It operates from March to December.
The building structure ensures the quality of a personalised education, with laboratories, classrooms, multimedia service and conference rooms that are used both during class and in the summer and postgraduate courses. The University has a large library that includes more than 60,000 volumes, plus direct access to the Internet, periodicals and an exchange system with significant national and foreign universities. In the same building is the Centre for Educational Technology for Self-learning, equipped for research work and information, plus an auditorium that can seat 200 guests and the Ellen White Research Center.
The educational task is reinforced with an infrastructure designed to assist in the educational process, which also provides for the physical development of students. The sports complex includes a tennis court, beach volleyball, a swimming pool and an indoor gymnasium in which organised recreational activities are carried out. The institution also has an FM transmitter, a television centre and recording studios, which enrich the activities of the Communication Department.
Enrolment for the year 2009 totalled 2530 students. Since the Argentine economic crisis (1999–2002) the number of foreign students has increased dramatically due to the devaluation of the Argentine peso, making UAP one of the most culturally diverse universities in South America.
Read more about River Plate Adventist University: History, From College To University, Academic Divisions, Library, Publications, See Also
Famous quotes containing the words river, plate and/or university:
“If a walker is indeed an individualist there is nowhere he can’t go at dawn and not many places he can’t go at noon. But just as it demeans life to live alongside a great river you can no longer swim in or drink from, to be crowded into safer areas and hours takes much of the gloss off walking—one sport you shouldn’t have to reserve a time and a court for.”
—Edward Hoagland (b. 1932)
“Our press is certainly bankrupt in the “thrill of awe”Motherwise reverence: reverence for nickel plate and brummagem. Let us sincerely hope that this fact will remain a fact forever; for to my mind a discriminating irreverence is the creator and protector of human liberty.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)
“Like dreaming, reading performs the prodigious task of carrying us off to other worlds. But reading is not dreaming because books, unlike dreams, are subject to our will: they envelop us in alternative realities only because we give them explicit permission to do so. Books are the dreams we would most like to have, and, like dreams, they have the power to change consciousness, turning sadness to laughter and anxious introspection to the relaxed contemplation of some other time and place.”
—Victor Null, South African educator, psychologist. Lost in a Book: The Psychology of Reading for Pleasure, introduction, Yale University Press (1988)