Catholic University of Pernambuco

Catholic University of Pernambuco

Universidade Católica de Pernambuco
Coat of arms of the university
Other name	Unicap
Motto	Veritati et vitae
Motto in English	Truth and Life
Type	Private, non-profit
Established	March 31, 1943 (March 31, 1943)[1]
Affiliation	Roman Catholic, Jesuit
Chancellor	Dom Pedro Rubens Ferreira Oliveira
Rector	Aline Maria Grego
Vice rector	Luciano José Pinheiro Barros
Academic staff	249[2]
Students	15,000[2]
Undergraduates	14,309[2]
Postgraduates	691[2]
Location	Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil
Campus	Urban
Colors	Grey and White
Sports	Athletics, basketball, indoor soccer, handball, judo, karate, swimming, water polo, tennis, shoes table, volleyball, and chess
Website	www.unicap.br

The Catholic University of Pernambuco (Portuguese: Universidade Católica de Pernambuco, Unicap) in Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil, is a Catholic University run by the Society of Jesus.

History

Unicap was founded on September 27, 1951, and recognized by the Federal Government (Decree 30,417) on January 18, 1952. It grew out of the first Catholic school in the region, Manoel da Nóbrega College of Philosophy, Sciences, and Letters, founded by the Jesuits of the northeast region in 1943. In its development, the University faced incorporation and aggregation or creation of Colleges, Institutes, or Schools, to implement in 1974 the university reform law, adopting the model homogeneous ternary Rectory, Centres, and Departments. Unicap today includes an educational complex with 15,000 students from first-degree courses to graduate school. Some 50,000 have graduated.^[3]

The Central Library, named for Aloísio M. de Carvalho, SJ, has 15,000 registered users, 400,000 visits per year, and more than 700,000 loans, with on average of 3,500 readers per day.^[4] Its 450,000 volumes are indexed on internet.^[5]

Programs

In 2010, in its first evaluation by the Ministry of Education, Unicap received a 4 out of 5. Singled out for commendation were "The policy for teaching undergraduate and postgraduate, research, extension," the policy of incentives for graduates (with the payment of grants and agreements for internships), the approval of the trained law course in the examination of the Bar Association of Brazil (more than 60%), 33 Unicap research groups registered with the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq), and the program of scholarships for teachers and employees.^[6]

Unicap’s Student Exchange Program offers one or two semesters in an IES exchange program at the national or international level. This is encouraged by the Association of Universities entrusted to the Society of Jesus in Latin America (AUSJAL), for a beneficial integration of students from Latin American Jesuit higher education institutions. Unicap also receives foreign IES students in exchange.^[7]

Courses

People during a test in Unicap.

Students in the Campus of Bela Vista.

Culture collection

Universidade Católica de Pernambuco maintains a microbial culture collection whose strains are qualified using the UCP epithet (for instance Cunninghamella elegans UCP 542).

References

External links

• (in Portuguese) Official website