CIDE’s new campus in Aguascalientes (CIDE Region Centro) has been in operation for only a year, yet its faculty has grown to 15 professors already (between Assistant, Associate, Full and Visiting), with already 2 cohorts of the Government and Public Finance programme (1st year and 2nd year, undergraduate) taking courses already. I encourage you to read through our English-language website and explore the broad diversity of research and teaching we do.
From the moment I arrived I have been taking a number of photographs of the CIDE Region Centro campus in Aguascalientes. You will notice our library is in its early stages, but it will grow to be THE premier library and information repository in central Mexico. While the campus is young, we already have enough equipment to offer short courses, seminars, and diploma degrees through videoconference and satellite communication.
Our mission and intent is not only to engage in high-quality, ground-breaking scholarly research, but also to ensure that our work has a profound positive impact in the quality of life of Aguascalientes’ population (not only the city, where CIDE Region Centro’s campus is located, but also the entire state and the surrounding states as a region). Early on, CIDE Region Centro has engaged in 2 main broad research programmes: Regional Studies and Drug Policy.
Naturally, given my scholarly interests, my work fits directly with the the Regional Studies programme, although there are some interesting applications of environmental studies to the drug policy field.
We have a number of excellent professors from across all 6 Divisions of CIDE: Aldo Ponce, from Political Studies; Kurt Unger, David Juárez, Héctor Nuñez and Rafael Garduño from Economics, Alejandro Anaya from International Studies, Catalina Pérez Correa and Alejandro Madrazo from Law Studies, Adriana Luna (currently on scholarly leave) from History, and Rodrigo Velazquez, Salvador Espinosa, Gabriel Purón and yours truly (Raul Pacheco-Vega) from Public Administration.
We also have 2 visiting professors (Rodolfo Garcia who is here on sabbatical from the Public Administration Division at CIDE Santa Fe in Mexico City and Beatriz Labate, a visiting assistant professor directly hired for the Drug Policy Programme).
Our work could not be done without a number of excellent research assistants, program managers and administrative staff who provide the support functions that we require.
Faculty offices are equipped with just about everything you may need as a new faculty member to develop your research agenda. We also have shared spaces with desks for our research assistants and program managers. In the future, as our graduate programme develops, we will also have shared desk space for Masters and PhD students.
If you are in (or plan to visit) Mexico, I strongly encourage you to come pay us a visit at CIDE Region Centro. You can view my entire photo set of the CIDE Region Centro campus on Flickr.
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