Historical Trajectory *UN*

The National University of Colombia was born in the second half of the nineteenth century (22 September 1867), on the stage of radical liberal himself, when he wanted to put limits on the absolute principle of academic freedom that had allowed the emergence of many institutions shoddy university scientific and academic, to enter the state final inspection and supervision of public instruction.

It was the time that opposed the scholastic orientation then dominant new trends in the field of scientific method that had, among other actors, the former Rectors of the University, and Manuel Rojas Ezequiel Ancízar. In the atmosphere of Regeneration, the University was demonized for having erected, true to its mission, as a stage of critical ideas, and accused the causality of political instability and social unrest that surrounded the process of the new Constitution of 1886. 

As a result, the University returned to the direct control of the State, and lost both their limited autonomy as their academic unit. However, the idea of ​​the university remained proclaimed by those who, like Rafael Uribe Uribe, should always be considered that national, modern, contemporary and evolutionary, experimental and unifying.

Years later, in the twentieth, the University responded by collecting the ideals of the university movement of Córdoba, to be reborn with new impetus under the Liberal Republic, thanks to the guidance of the interventionist conception of the state and the leadership of President Alfonso Lopez. And under the conception that it was taken in 1935, with the settings and adjustments made ​​in 1963, 1980 and most recently, in 1993, that the University has historically been very closely linked with the constraints is always imposed, access to the lower strata of higher education quality, reception activities, processing orders and creation science, technology and art, the study of the problems of the national community, and critical reflection on their emergency heartfelt.