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The Colombian University "Universidad EAFIT"
Universidad EAFIT <www.eafit.edu.co>
- This institution was established in 1960 by entrepreneurs of
the city of Medellin called ANDI
(Asociación Nacional de Industriales - National Industry
Asocaition, <www.andi.com.co>)
with the help of a American University. EAFIT stands for Escuela
de Administración y Finanzas e Instituto Tecnológico
(Administration and Finance School and Technology Institute). The
colors of the flag were taken from this American University. The
cog wheel on the Coat of Arms has twelve cogs. They stand for the
twelve Engineering Programs that were established. The pyramid is
a traditional symbol for Administration, or a better business
term: Management, introduced by Max Weber. And inside the
foundation date, 1960.
Source: Graduation photographs taken back in 2004 by the
company Foto Grisales, located in Medellín
E.R., 4 September 2006
Max Weber, together with Emile Durkheim, is considered one of
the founders of modern sociology.
Ron Lahav, 22 February 2007
EAFIT University commemorated its 50 anniversary yesterday (http://www.eafit.edu.co/50/index.php).
During the celebration of this date, a speech by the current Director of the
institution, one can see a
picture which shows a variant
flag of EAFIT University on the left and the variant with
coat of arms of the flag of the Department of
Antioquia.
Esteban Rivera, 5 May 2010
This past weekend EAFIT University celebrated its 50th anniversary (
http://www2.eafit.edu.co/50/index.php and
http://www.eafit.edu.co/alcampus
), and I got the chance to see a
variant of the reported flag. It is the same color scheme (yellow over blue),
the only thing different, is the
alternate logo.
This
flag can be seen also in a speech given by U.S. Under Secretary of State
James Steinberg, held at this University.
Sources:
http://www.eafit.edu.co/agencia-noticias/historico-noticias/2010/octubre/Paginas/cooperacion-contra-drogas-continuara-colombia-estados-unidos-eafit.aspx
(EAFIT University news report)
and http://www.cmi.com.co/?nt=53301
(CM& tv news).
Esteban Rivera, 26 October 2010
image by Ivan Sache, 5 February 2009
"Colegio 'Eduardo Carranza'" was created in
Villavicienco, Department of Meta, on 2 December 1985 (Decree No.
022).
The institute is named after the poet Januario Eduardo Carranza
Fernández (1913-1985). Professor and diplomat, Carranza was a
precursor of the "Piedra y Cileo" (Stone and Sky)
movement; he translated into Spanish poems by Verlaine, Éluard
and Apollinaire.
The flag of the institute, as shown graphically on the website of the
institute, is white with five green-red-green-red-green,
diagonal stripes in the lower left and upper right corners and
the monogram of the institute, made of the red letters
"EC" outlined in green, in the upper left corner.
The monogram also appears on the emblem of the institute, placed
on a white triangle with a green border.
Ivan Sache, 5 February 2009
"Colegio 'Eduardo Santos'" is located at Bogotá.
The flag of the institute, according to a photo shown on the website
of the institute, is horizontally divided dark red-silver
with the emblem of the institute in the middle.
he circular emblem of the institute shows on a white background
two hands holding a tree and two grain heads - or rice panicles,
surrounded by the black writing "CENTRO EDUCATIVO
DISTRITAL" (top) / "EDUARDO SANTOS" (bottom). The
emblem is bordered, from outside to inside, by a thin red ring, a
thicker ring horizontally divided dark red-silver, like the flag,
and charged with the writing "REPUBLICA DE COLOMBIA"
(top, white) / "CREADO IN NOVIEMBRE DE 1996" (bottom,
black), and a yellow thinner ring.
Ivan Sache, 16 January 2009
image by Ivan Sache, 16 January 2009
"Colegio El Jazmín" is located in Bogotá, in the
borough of Puente Aranda, named after a bridge built in the 16th
century on a marshy plot near river Chinua, then owned by Juan de
Aranda.
The flag of the institute, as shown graphically on the website
of the institute, is white with a green border.
Ivan Sache, 16 January 2009
"Colegio El Minuto de Buenos Aires" is located at
Bogotá.
The flag of the institute,
as shown graphically on the website
of the institute, is horizontally divided white-light blue
with six yellow stars placed in an ascending diagonal pattern,
with increasing size from bottom to top.
Ivan Sache, 27 January 2009
"Colegio El Porvenir" is located in Bogotá.
The flag of the institute, as shown on a photo available on the website of the
institute displayed between the flags of Colombia
and Bogotá (with a small coat of arms),
is horizontally divided white- green with a triangle horizontally
divided yellow-red (recalling the flag of Bogotá) placed along
the hoist and the emblem of the institute in the middle. The
emblems seem to have the same size on the three flags.
The emblem of the institute is a red disk with a yellow border,
filled with the stylized letters IED / EP. "IED" stands
for "Institución Educativa Distrital", the official
name of all the institutes of that kind located in the Federal
District of Bogotá. However, most of them seem to prefer the
old, simpler "Colegio" name, for common use.
Ivan Sache, 15 December 2009
The EPN (Escuela Penitenciaria Nacional "Enriqe Low Murtra", "Enrique Low
Murtra" National Prison School ), is Colombia's formation institution for all
the personnel in charge of custody in penitenciaries around the country, mainly
employed by the INPEC. It was established by
Decree No. 1817 of July 17, 1964.
Source:
http://www.epn.gov.co/bienestar-estudiantil/historia-epn.html
Its flag is a green horizontal flag, crossed from top left to bottom right with
the colors of INPEC, white/red/green/, as seen
here. (first flag on the top left). The flag can also be seen
here on their offical website.
Source:
http://www.epn.gov.co/bienestar-estudiantil/identidad/120-bandera-epn.html
The flag was commissioned through Circular No. 31, of August 1984, by contest,
issued by the (then) Dirección General de Prisiones (today known as
INPEC), headed back then by Bernardo Echeverri
Ossa. The official measures of the flag are: 3m long, 2m wide.
Source:
http://www.epn.gov.co/bienestar-estudiantil/identidad/120-bandera-epn.html
The Coat of Arms is seen
here.
Source:
http://190.25.232.99/mdle/index.php?lang=en_utf8 ).
Additional information on the Coat of Arms can be found
here.
For additional information go to: EPN
(official website)
Esteban Rivera, 27 July 2012
"Institución Educativa Entrerríos" is located at
Entrerríos, Department of Antioquia.
The flag of the institute is shown graphically and described on
the website of
the institute.
The description says that the flag is made of three equal
horizontal stripes green, white, and blue, while the drawing
shows a flag horizontally divided blue-white-green.
Green represents the municipality of Entrerríos and its
harmonious landscapes.
White represents peace and harmony.
Blue represents the institute, as on the emblem, where the blue
quarter is charged with the name and educative motto of the
institute, "Más que enseñar es formar" (Educating is
better than teaching).
Ivan Sache, 5 February 2009
image by Ivan Sache, 7 November 2010
I recently wrote that the Colombian Theresian educational institutes could
share a common flag, horizontally divided white-blue. My assumption, based on
two samples, was erroneous.
Colegio Teresiano de Envigado is one of the seven Colombian institutes chaired
by the Community of St. Therese of the Child Jesus. It was founded in 1969 in
Envigado (Department of Antioquia) by Sister Maria del Pilar Suárez, the then
Superior of the Community in Colombia, as Colegio Teresiano Monteblanco. In
1999, the institute was renamed Colegio Teresiano de Envigado.
The flag of Colegio Teresiano de Envigado is presented on the institute's
website as horizontally divided light blue-white-coffee brown, with respective
proportions 2:1:1 - undoubtedly recalling the Colombian national flag. The three
stripes, placed "from the Earth to Heavens", symbolize the Theresian spirit.
Coffee brown represents integral education and the woman's representation in the
Theresian values. Light blue represents transcendency. The three colors together
represent prayer as a personal relation with God and the synthesis of the
Theresian humanism.
Source:
http://www.colegioteresiano.edu.co/pags/simbolos.htm
Ivan Sache, 7 November 2010
image by Ivan Sache, 14 Febuary 2004
"Institución Universitaria de Envigado" (IUE) was
founded in 1992 in Envigado. The flag of IUE is
horizontally divided orange-white-green with the emblem of the
IUE in the middle. The flag uses the colours of the municipality
of Envigado, green and orange, together with white, representing
the social responsability included into our institutional
mission. The emblem of IUE is made of an "abstraction"
of the letters "IUE" and two elements, the Earth
representing projection all over the world, and an atomic nucleus
[indeed a nucleus surrounded by electrons] representing
technology, science and vision of the future.
Source: <iue.edu.co>,
located by Dov Gutterman.
Ivan Sache, 14 Febuary 2004 and 18 December 2008
image by Ivan Sache, 1 February 2009
"Colegio de la Esperanza" was founded on 2 January
1870 by Abel Mariano De Irisarri and Joaquín F. Vélez in
Cartagena de Indias, Department of Bolívar. Since then, the
institute has been ran by the De Irisarri family.
The flag of the institute, as shown graphically and described on
the website
of the institute, is horizontally divided white-green. White
represents purity, harmony and peace. The whole flag represents
the aspiration to be a pioneer educational institute.
Ivan Sache, 1 February 2009
image by Ivan Sache, 18 December 2008
"Fundación Universitaria del Espinal" (FUNDES) was
founded by His Grace Abraham Escudero Montoya, Bishop of El
Espinal (Department of Tolima). Canonically approved on 20 March
1997 by the Bishopric Chancelry (Decree No.
147A), FUNDES was recognized by the Ministry of
National Education on 23 July 2001 (Decree No. 1495).
The flag of FUNDES is described (but not shown) on the university's
website, as horizontally divided white-yellow-green
White is a symbol of transparency and beauty and represents the
goal of the university, peace.
Yellow represents the spiritual resources, and, together with
white, the belonging to the (Roman Catholic) church.
Green represents hope and the greenness of the soil grown with
rice.
Ivan Sache, 18 December 2008
image by Ivan Sache, 16 January 2009
"Institución Educativa Distrital 'Estanislao
Zuleta'" was inaugurated in February 1990 as "Escuela
Distrital Rural 'La Reforma'". The institute is named after
the noted Professor of Philosophy and writer Estanislao Zuleta
(1935-1990).
The flag of the institute, according to a photo and the
description available on the website of the institute, is
horizontally divided blue-white-blue. The three stripes represent
the universe, peace and the Colombian seas, respectively.
Ivan Sache, 16 January 2009
