Logroño, (EFE).- More than 800 students from the International University of La Rioja (UNIR) have celebrated their graduation in an act that has been held in person, with almost 500 attendees, and telematics, for more than 20 different nationalities .
In Logroño, throughout the weekend students of Law and Business and Communication, ESIT, Health Sciences and Social Sciences and Humanities have graduated; together with those of Education.
“I want to express my congratulations to those of you graduating today for the effort you have made over time because, contrary to an idea that seems to have settled in today’s society, things are not achieved when they are very intensely desired, but rather when they are he puts in the necessary effort”, the rector José María Vázquez García-Peñuela stated this Saturday.
Among the main countries of origin of the students present in Logroño are Spain, Austria, Greece, Italy, Poland, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, Paraguay, the Dominican Republic, Venezuela, Colombia, Chile, Ecuador, El Salvador, Argentina, the Philippines and Equatorial Guinea , shows the internationalization of the online university.
“If we want this world to be better, we are much more willing to fulfill our duties to the best of our ability than to demand our rights,” concluded Vázquez García-Peñuela.
Avoid Anglicisms
Teresa Santa María Fernández, vice-rector for Cultural Action at UNIR, gave the master class ‘Situation and challenges of Spanish in today’s world’ at the ceremony this Saturday.
He has proposed to Spanish-speakers “avoid anglicisms and acronyms that are not necessary, put accent marks on the ‘i’ and the vowels that need it so as not to give us a major scare”, consider the time they read to their children “as time gained” and to think that the care of the language – of any language – “is everyone’s business”.