Background
The University Sin Fronteras was born from the movement building work of Southwest Workers Union, a twenty three year old grassroots membership based social movement organizing for environmental and climate justice, low-income worker and migrant organizing, community civic engagement and youth organizing and leadership development through political and popular education. In order to pr
ovide political and popular education and skills development training, SWU established an in-house organizing leadership justice institute early in 2003. This educational work and leadership development has evolved and grown into the University Sin Fronteras founded in 2010. Today Galeria EVA is hosting the Universidad Sin Fronteras San Antonio campus. Mission
The USF mission is to embody and reflect the principles, concerns, and ethics of global people’s struggles. The USF is a public and accessible space for education that advances systemic social change. The USF works with social movements, organizations, and individuals:
To provide inter-generational continuity. To develop critical consciousness through emancipatory pedagogy. To restore shared knowledge while simultaneously creating new systems of education to determine our own future. To produce thinking and action within collective learning spaces. Our Vision
Knowledge is not the privilege nor domain of the powerful few but a right of all people. We envision education as a vehicle for social movement development, rather than a commodity to be bought, sold, or corrupted. Emancipatory education is informed by the wisdom of our communities to which we are accountable and ensures continuity of histories, cultural traditions and legacies. In order to achieve social and political impact for systemic change, our education systems will collectively create a cohesive analysis of the past, present, and future in order to direct and solidify social movement development. We envision education as a collective leadership development process between and among generations.