Autonomous university

[1] The 1988 Magna Charta Universitatum defines the first fundamental principle of a university to be an "autonomous institution" whose "research and teaching must be morally and intellectually independent of all political authority and economic power".

[4] In 2011, the Southern University of Science and Technology launched in Shenzhen, Guangdong.

[5] It was marketed as China's first "autonomous" university, though the level of autonomy from state institutions is disputed.

[5] Many Latin American countries and their universities have been affected by authoritarian dictatorships.

[6] These include Argentina,[8] Bolivia,[9] Chile,[10] Colombia,[11] Costa Rica,[12] Dominican Republic,[13] El Salvador,[14] Guatemala,[15] Honduras,[16] Mexico,[17] Nicaragua,[18] Panama,[19] Peru[20] and Venezuela.