The University will be recognized as the university of the State and Colombian society, interpreting the profound changes in the domestic and international environment, responding with proposals and innovations in the development and transformation of education, providing the new Pedagogical Political Project for Colombian education . Through this project the power strategies, the great principles, goals and values enshrined in the Constitution are instilled, and an ideal of man and citizen is formed, a new historical subject.
In 1917 the first National Pedagogical Congress, where construction was determined in Bogota National Pedagogical Institute, which became operational on March 9, 1927, under the direction of German educator Franzisca Radke was performed. For 1936, within the liberal educational project and in opposition to the conservative stance of the IPN, the Normal School was established The University will be recognized as the university of the State and Colombian society, interpreting the profound changes in the domestic and international environment, responding with proposals and innovations in the development and transformation of education, providing the new Pedagogical Political Project for Colombian education .