FACTS FROM AN INTERVIEW WITH PROFESSOR JOHNNY SÁNCHEZ SÁNCHEZ.
After interviewing Professor Johnny Sánchez Sánchez on the topic of Aufin, we have learned that the meaning of this acronym is Aula fija para Inglès.
The thing is as follows, professor Sànchez had visited the infrastructures in Maracay of Upel. There, he had noticed that the classroom specifically used for English were labelled as Afin and this gave him the idea of doing the same thing at Upel Maturín.
After giving a thorough analysis to the teaching environment of our University classrooms, Sanchez thought that those teaching spaces needed some improvements. To begin with, he introduced a research paper as a project so the directory of the University could analyze the improvements required. In this paper was also requested the mayor necessity of these classrooms belonging to the English programs exclusively: Fixed classrooms. This final request was done after the initial proposal was approved.
At the very beginning, there used to be only three classrooms. They were labelled as 1C , 2C and 3C , and these spaces had room to accommodate just 25 students. After the approval of Professor Sánchez Project, and taking into account that the number of registered students had increase around a 30 %, it was decided to change these three rooms into four well equipped ones. It should be mention that the inner walls of these classrooms contain electrical accessories of the best quality to warrant the usage of high and advanced technology.
Having accomplished the first stage and having as a result four brand new advanced technology classrooms (Aufin A, B, C, and D respectively), it was then considered, due to an abrupt increment of the amount of students (from 300 to 1000) the need of building three additional classrooms as well equipped as the ones before, but these ones ended up being labelled as Aufin E, F, G.
The building of these classrooms was done working overtime even after midnight, in fact professor Sánchez himself worked mixing and pouring and setting bricks, over a vacation period.
We should also mention that Professor Cósme Arzolay, who was the university principal of the time, took these new facilities as examples to follow, and indeed made relevant changes in the rest of the classrooms of the university.
These classrooms were well kept until the needs and interests of the authorities of the university requested the access to the Aufin rooms due to a general increment of the registered student in all the other specialities.
