The professors of the Center for Economic Research and Teaching (CIDE) asked the director of Conacyt, María Elena Álvarez-Buylla, to establish an open dialogue table in which the joint demands of both teachers, students and unions can be exposed.
For these purposes, Álvarez-Buylla was summoned to go to the facilities of CIDE Santa Fe this Thursday, December 2 at 11:00 a.m. The dialogue table, the professors propose, would take place in the parking lot of the research center.
“Without renouncing the demands and concerns expressed, we invite the general director of Conacyt to attend a dialogue table so that the demands of the Permanent Academic Assembly of CIDE and, if they so decide, of the other groups of the community are heard. We do not accept that attempts are made to fragment the dialogue,” the teachers said.
They also announced that, after putting it to a vote, 98% of the teachers resolved that no member of the community will accept to be appointed to a new managerial position in the CIDE until a dialogue table is opened with all the groups of the community.
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After the appointment of José Antonio Romer Tellaeche as general director of CIDE, the faculty reiterated their concern about how the appointment process was conducted and the denial of the collegiate nature of the formalization act.
“An academic community is based, not only on frank dialogue and attachment to the truth, but on compliance with norms and respect for collegiality. The process of appointing the director general cannot be alien to these principles,” they stressed.
Regarding the student movement that has taken over the CIDE facilities since last Monday, they reiterated their solidarity with them and demanded that the authorities ensure their physical integrity and respond to their demands.
This, after the students denounced that Oscar Arturo García and Rodrigo Aliphat appeared on Tuesday outside the CIDE Santa Fe and took photos of them and the teachers without any consent.
“Given that these people are public servants, we demand that the authorities act accordingly and offer guarantees of protection of personal data and privacy of those who make up the CIDE community in accordance with the Law on Protection of Data in Possession of Obliged Subjects,” said the Permanent Academic Assembly.
Taking of facilities until Romero Tellaeche is dismissed
The Student Assembly, which keeps the CIDE facilities taken, issued a new statement in which it informed that the research center will continue to be occupied until José Antonio Tellaeche is dismissed as general director of CIDE and the process to appoint someone else in office is replenished.
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A process in which, they insisted, the voice of the students, professors and administrative workers of this research center must be heard.
“The dismissal of Dr. Romero Tellaeche will be accompanied by the restart of the selection process of the general director, preventing him from running for office due to his lack of recognized professional ethics,” they said.
Among their requests is also requested the commitment signed by Conacyt that the necessary process will begin to permanently form the General Student Assembly of CIDE and that a student representation will be incorporated -which will have the role of observer- in the sessions of the Academic Council of the research center.
Likewise, hold regular meetings between representatives appointed by the Student Assembly and the Academic Secretariat to guarantee direct and transparent communication in order to address and follow up on the needs of students directly in the CIDE Directorate.
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