Overview
- The Pase UAM pathway will incorporate social-context criteria alongside academic performance to broaden university entry and has already admitted over 1,000 Colegio de Bachilleres students.
- UAM plans to fill roughly 700 existing vacancies at a rate of about 250 new permanent professors per year to renew an aging academic workforce.
- Rector Gustavo Pacheco is set to defend a budget aligned with enrollment growth and quality standards before the Chamber of Deputies.
- Serving more than 61,000 students across five campuses, UAM is tackling structural socioeconomic barriers to lift Mexican tertiary-level participation above the current sub-50% rate.
- The administration has reinforced zero tolerance for gender-based violence, expanded flexible educational offerings and boosted community engagement through public events and industry partnerships.