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image by Ivan Sache, 7 January 2009
"Colegio Calasanz Bogotá" (CCB), founded on 21
March 1949 in Bogotá, was the first Piarist foundation in
Colombia. The order was founded in the 17th century by St. Joseph
Calasanz (1557-1648), who was declared "Universal Patron of
all the Christian popular schools in the world" by Pope Pius
XII in 1948. Calasanz founded in 1597 the first free school in
Europe, and, in 1617 the "Pauline Congregation of Poor
Cleric Regulars of the Mother of God of the Pious Schools"
(named after Pope Paul V, who had approved it), which was
elevated to a religious order in 1621 by Pope Gregory XV. The
Piarists are known as "Escolapios" in some parts of
South America, including Colombia. See: <escolapios.org.co>.
The flag of CCB, according to a photo and the description
available on the CCB
website, is horizontally divided green-white-green with the
Piarist emblem in the middle.
Green represents the earth and our worldly history. White
represents the celeste light and eternal life. The combination of
the two colours represents the Piarist educationalist ideal, to
reach God through the human life considered with radicality. The
flag represents, therefore, the two Piarist educationalist
principles, piety and literature, or, God's light
and the human science's light.
The Piarist emblem is made of a yellow sun with the anagram of
the name of the Blessed Virgin in the middle and four Greek
letters (mu, pi, thêta, gamma) standing for "Maria, Mother
of God". The emblem means that the Blessed Virgin is the
shield and protection of the students, whose way is enlightened
by Jesus, light of the world.
Ivan Sache, 7 January 2009
image by Jairo Alonso Méndez Méndez, 14 November 2004
Instituto Universitario de Caldas (Manizales, Caldas).
Jairo Alonso Méndez Méndez, 14 November 2004
The University of Caldas, founded in Manizales on 24 May 1943,
is made of the Faculties of Agronomic Sciences, Law and Social
Sciences, Exact and Nature Sciences, Health Sciences,
Engineering, and Arts and Humanities.
The flag of the
university, as shown graphically and described on the university
website, is blue with the emblem of the university in the
middle.
The institutional colours are associated with thought, as the
quality and luminosity of gold and the deepness, seriousness and
solemnity of blue. The contrast and the location of the emblem in
the middle of the flag increases the meaning of the colours,
offering a both classical and stunning picture.
The emblem of the university is a sun with eleven rays,
surrounded by the name of the university and its motto,
"Lumina spargo" (also the name of the university
review), all in yellow.
Ivan Sache, 27 December 2008
image by Jairo Alonso Méndez Méndez, 23 September 2006
The Liceo Moderno Campestre is a High School located in Anapoima (Cundinamarca, Colombia),
non-official, created in 2005 by John Alexander Bejarano López,
professional from this city. The flag is builded with three
colors: green, white and blue. The description are written in
Spanish and taken by the newspaper "Moderníssimo",
published by this institute in this month, and printed by
"Ecos del Tequendama", other newspaper in the
Tequendama Province:
"Consta de tres superficies horizontales, el primer color
que la compone es el color verde: Símbolo de esperanza, fe y
naturaleza, es el reflejo de nuestros deseos y compromisos ante
la comunidad. Además, representa nuevos contextos de
aprendizaje.
El color blanco, símbolo de paz y pureza, unidad y bondad,
insignia de fraternidad para la Familia Modernista en el diario
vivir, parte esencial en su fortalecimiento como plantel
educativo.
El azul, color que representa tranquilidad y armonía, simboliza
para nosotros sabiduría y conocimiento, que se adquieren a
través de los procesos educativos llevados a cabo por toda la
comunidad educativa".
Jairo Alonso Méndez Méndez, 23 September 2006
image by Ivan Sache, 29 March 2009
"Gimnasio Cantillana" was founded in
February 1988 at Floridablanca, Department of Santander, by
ASPAEN ("Asociación para la Enseñenza), the organization
set up in Colombia by the Opus Dei movement
The flag of the institute, as shown graphically
and on a photo
on the website of the institute, is horizontally divided
blue-green-red.
Blue represents the immense sky and the unlimited horizon opened
by the education provided by the institute.
Green represents the high mountains surrounding the region, hope
and optimism.
Red represents the power and strength of the blood of Santander,
flooding for love.
Ivan Sache, 29 March 2009
image resized from municpal
website
"Instituto Agrìcola de Carcasí" (ITA) was founded
on 16 April 1953 (Decree No. 0991) as "Escuela Vocacional
Agrícola" at Carcasí,
Department of Santander.
The flag of the institute, as shown graphically and described on
the institute's
website, is divided green-white by the descending diagonal
with a yellow wheat stem in the middle.
Green symbolizes the fields while white symbolizes purity and the
aspiration to peace.
The wheat stem represents the soil fertility and the strength and
progress of the local people.
Oddly enough, the very same flag is presented as the municipal
flag, with the very same description, on the municpal
website.
Ivan Sache, 14 April 2009
See also: Carcasi (Santander, Colombia).
image by Ivan Sache, 9 January 2009
"Colegio de la Libertad" was founded on 5 February
1868 in the presbytery of Palmira (Department of Valle), with
classes in French, Spanish, Arithmetics, Economics and Geography.
The institute was subsequently relocated into a former colonial
tobbaco warehouse; in 1929, it was renamed "Colegio de
Cárdenas", as a tribute to the local politician Vincent de
Cárdenas (1811-1880), Senator and Governor of different
departments.
In September 2002 (Decree No. 1784), the Department of Valle
split "Colegio de Cárdenas"; the former
secondary seat of the institute located in the borough of
Mirriñao became "Institución Educativa Cárdenas de
Mirriñao", incorporating the "Benilda
Caicedo", "Ricardo Nieto", "Gran
Colombia" institutes and "Centro de Educación Especial
Carlos Arturo Rodríguez".
The flag of the institute, as shown graphically and described on
the webpage
of the institute, is vertically divided crimson-white-blue,
representing the religious values, purity, and the seas and
heavens, respectively.
Ivan Sache, 9 January 2009
image from <web.uautonoma.edu.co>
The Universidad Autónoma del Caribe (Autonomous University of
the Caribbean) is located in Barranquilla.
The university flag can be seen at <web.uautonoma.edu.co>:
"Al igual que el escudo, la creación de la bandera, se
remonta a los orígenes de la Universidad. Una raya transversal
de color amarillo cae sobre un fondo rojo. El centro de la
bandera de la Universidad Autónoma del Caribe, está engalanado
con el escudo.".
Ron Lahav and Eugene Ipavec, 18 February 2007
image by Ivan Sache, 8 January 2009
"Instituto Tecnológico Carlos Hernández Yaruro"
located in the village of La Ermita, Municipality of Ocaña,
Department of Norte del Santander, was recognized by the
Department of Norte del Santander on 19 May 1997 (Decree No.
016), as the successor of an institute founded in 1945 by the
late Dr. Carlos Hernández Yaruro for the education of farmers'
children.
The flag of the institute, as shown graphically and described on
the website
of the institute, is horizontally divided white-dark red
("vino tinto", lit., "red wine").
White means purity and loyalty, commitment to conquest and
preservation of peace.
Dark red means the products of effort.
Ivan Sache, 8 January 2009
image by Ivan Sache, 17 December 2008
"Escuela Colombiana de Carreras Industríales"
(ECCI), founded in 1977 in Bogotá, was recognized by the
Ministry of National Education on 25 October 1978 (Decree No.
15572) as "Escuela Colombiana de Carreras Intermedias"
and confirmed under its present name on 28 March 1985 (Decree No.
2683). ECCI provides professional technical education in
industrial mechanics, computer science, telecommunications,
environmental development, entrepreneurial development, fashion
design, tax and customs management, and international trade and
negotiation. ECCI signed on 22 September 1995 a partnership
agreement with the Santiago University of Cali.
The flag of ECCI, as shown graphically on the ECCI
website, is white with a thin blue border and the emblem of
the ECCI in the middle.
The emblem of ECCI shows "the sun of hope enlighting the
country" over three green mounds representing the three
cordilleras of Colombia. Below is placed the blue book, indeed
the logo of ECCI. The border of the shield bears the foundation
year and the name of the institute in black capital letters.
The logo of ECCI is a blue book, symbolizing knowledge, whose
cover is quartered by a cross symbolizing the faith in Jesus and
the letters "E", "C", "C" and
"I" in the respective quarters.
Ivan Sache, 17 December 2008
Law 48 issued in 1945 prescribed the foundation of four
"Colegios Mayores" of Cundinamarca (in Bogotá),
Antioquia (in Medellín), Bolívar (in Carthagena) and Cauca (in
Popayán). The most recent of the four institutes, "Colegio
Mayor del Cauca" was inaugurated on 13 November 1967 as
"Colegio Mayor de Cultura Popular del Cauca".
The flag of the institute,
as shown graphically and described on the website
of the institute, is vertically divided blue-yellow-blue with
an emblem in the top of the yellow stripe. The first two stripes
seem to be of the same width and the third one much wider.
Yellow is the colour of the sun, of light, life, action and
power. It symbolizes strength, will and stimulation. It
represents the human intelligence enlightened by the divine
revelation. According to Vincent Van Gogh, yellow represents
"friendship and love".
Blue represents intelligence and deep emotions. It is the colour
of the infinite and of the dreams. It symbolizes wiseness,
loyalty, eternal truth and immortality.
The emblem represented on the flag seems to be a simplified
version of the institute's official logo.
The logo is prescribed by Decree No. 019 of the Board of
Directors, adopted on 1 November 2001. It represents "El
Camarín" framed in a white rectangle with a blue border
outlined in yellow and charged with the name of the institute in
white capital letters.
"El Camarín", lit. the Cabinet, was designed in 1760
by the German architect Simon Schendherr on the facade of the
second floor of the Church of the Incarnation. It represents the
communication between the inside and outside words. "El
Camarín" has three windows, two rectangle on the sides and
one circular in the main axis, symbolizing a large eye always
watching the ever changing cosmos.
Ivan Sache, 16 December 2008
"Corporación Universitaria Autonoma del
Cauca", recognized by the Ministry of National
Education on 7 April 2003 (Decree No. 677), is the legal sucessor
of "Corporación UCICA", founded in 1979 in Popayán
and recognized by the Ministry of National Education in 1984
(Decree No. 13002).
The flag of the
university, as shown graphically on the university's
website, is blue with four thin yellow stripes in the lower
part of the flag and the emblem of the university in the middle.
The emblem of the university is a blue shield with stylized
yellow letters "C" and "A" surrounding a blue
sphere. The shield is surmonted by the name of the university in
yellow letters.
Ivan Sache, 18 December 2008
image by Carlos Thompson, 22 March 2003
Acording to the site of the Universidad del Cauca <www.unicauca.edu.co>,
the flag has 12 stripes.
From the site: "Formada por doce barras azules y rojas de
igual tamano, alternadas y colocadas perpendicularmente al asta,
fue adoptada en la misma fecha y por el mismo Acuerdo de Alta
Corporación Universitaria, con ocasión de conmemorarse un ano
más de su fundación del Alma Mater." [Formed by twelve
equalsized stripes alterned blue and red, perpendicular to the
hoist, was adopted the same date (November 7, 1922) and by the
same Agreement of High University Corporation (Consejo Directivo
Universitario) in conmemoration of one more year of the fundation
of the Alma Mater.]
Carlos Thompson, 22 March 2003
