The College of Jalisco
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El Colegio de Jalisco, A.C. (ColJal; lit. The College of Jalisco) is a publicly funded research and postgraduate teaching institution in Zapopan, Jalisco, Mexico, specializing in the social sciences and humanities. Legally, it is organized as a non-profit civil association, but it functions as a public institution devoted to research, teaching, and the public dissemination of scholarship and culture in western Mexico.
The idea of founding "a college of Jalisco" dates to 1965, when Agustín Yáñez proposed to Silvio Zavala the establishment in Jalisco of an institution modeled on El Colegio de México. The institution was formally constituted on 9 November 1982 by four founding associates: the Government of Jalisco, the University of Guadalajara, El Colegio de México, and El Colegio de Michoacán. It was inaugurated that same day by Governor Flavio Romero de Velasco.
The institution is based in central Zapopan and combines research, teaching, publishing, and public academic outreach through lectures, seminars, colloquia, congresses, and related activities.
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