I am greatly honored to have received an honorary professorship in social science at the Universidad Francisco Marroquin, in Guatemala City (there are branches in Panama and Madrid as well).
The Guatemala City branch is an excellent, highly selective school with about 3,000 students. It is also explicitly classical liberal in orientation. One interesting feature of the place is that it has kept this emphasis since its founding in 1971, a rarity for non-profits, which often suffer from mission drift or Conquest’s Second Law. You even can see an Atlas Shrugged sculpture attached to one of the main buildings. Many rooms and university services are named after classical liberal heroes, for instance Michael Polanyi. If a photo is taken, instead of saying “cheese,” people say “Mises.”
The students have excellent English and are very attentive. The graduation ceremony I attended was beautiful and heartfelt, not ironic and I did not see people looking down at their phones.
The on-campus museum of Gautemalan textiles is first-rate and very well presented. Their campus is perhaps the single nicest spot in Guatemala City.
Might it be the best university in Central America?
If you ever have the chance to visit or teach at Marroquin, I definitely recommend it. I very much thank my hosts for a wonderful few days. They even arranged geniune and truly tasty chicken tamales for me.
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