The 2017 Promotion of the National University of Asunción has received its name in a well deserved homage to the Centennial of the Cordoba Reform.

This historical fact has marked the traditional Latin American University; for that reason, it is and will be remembered for having given the kick to enter a new time, a time of democracy, liberties and emancipation.

The Cordoba Movement, initiated in 1918, whose main achievement was the achievement of university autonomy and, not least, other advances such as the election of the governing bodies and the authorities of the University by the university community itself as well as the participation of its constituent elements, professors, students and graduates, in the composition of its governing bodies; the competitions of opposition for the selection of the faculty and the periodicity of the chairs; free teaching; the gratuity of teaching; the democratization of entry to the university; the university extension, the strengthening of the social function of the University, the projection of the university culture to the people and the concern for the national problems.

At the fulfillment of the Centennial of the Cordoba Reform, the full validity of the claims can be seen in the constitutional range that acquires university autonomy, freedom of education and academic freedom, Article 79 of our Constitution; In addition, the novel Statute sanctioned and put into effect on December 5, 2017 and the various regulations currently under study contemplate in their articles the precepts acquired during the Cordoba Movement.

However, and despite all that has been advanced, we can still say that "the pains that remain are the freedoms that are missing" and assume the commitment to build and advance consecrating life to the search for truth.

Finally, the responsibility of defending the paradigm of the Cordoba Reform implies reaching philosophical positions, which in the university world means to pronounce in favor of state policies that promote the necessary transformations to unfold the potential of the UNA.