Campus visit

Friday we visited the campus of Universidad de San Andrés in San Isidro, a suburb to the north of Buenos Aires.

The young university, started in 1986, models itself after colleges in the United States. Its master’s program in journalism is affiliated with Columbia. (Another reason why I’m here.)

I’ll try to post some photos of the Universidad de Buenos Aires. The colleges are very different.

San Isidro is a particularly well off neighborhood. It is totally different from the hustle, bustle and grit of Bs As. It’s calm, peaceful, secluded, green, tranquil. In addition to the university, San Andrés has elementary and prep schools. The latter can be somewhat like Beverly Hills 90210, I was told.

We visited with Hernán Galperín and Marcelo Leiras, who directs the political science, international relations and communications programs at San Andrés.

We had lunch at a marina. San Isidro and the campus border the Río de la Plata.

Conversation covered Clarín, journalism in Latin America and the presidential race in the United States. Argentines are so interested in the race that you might think it was their own election.