OFFICIAL COMMUNICATION N°3 OF THE RECTORY

La Serena, October 23, 2019.

Dear ULS Community:

It is our duty to report that yesterday at 20:15 p.m., three students from our University of La Serena were arrested, in the context of the State of Emergency that our area is experiencing. From the first moment that the incident became known, Ms. Karin Ortloff Núñez, Commercial Engineering Career Coordinator, Ms. Patricia Astroza Morgan, Social Assistant of the General Directorate of Student Affairs (DGAE), and Ms. Elizabeth Escobar Toro, Attorney at the Legal Department, have attended to the situation, in terms of contacts with family members and channeling the corresponding procedures to the pertinent organizations.

Unfortunately, the prevailing situation generates risks, so the Institution is ready to attend to any situation that involves our students.

Consequently, this authority has ordered that, from now on, in the event of any similar event, Mrs. Patricia Astroza, Mrs. Elizabeth Escobar and the corresponding School Director or Coordinator, make themselves available to the students involved, to attend to and support with the necessary advice as well as monitoring the situation.

Dr. Nibaldo AVilés Pizarro

Rector

Given the serious events that we have witnessed in recent days, the Council of Rectors has considered it an institutional duty to be part of the reflection that the country is doing or should begin in the coming days.

Given our mission of training professionals and contributing to the generation of ideas for the various areas of national life, we believe that the events and behaviors observed, both due to their massive nature and violence, are giving unprecedented signs of a severe deterioration in legitimacy. social and political that any effective institutional order entails. It is, therefore, a civic and moral question that universities cannot and should not ignore.

It is up to the universities, due to their character as autonomous institutions, which represent the country's diverse intellectual and cultural traditions, to clearly express both their recognition and appreciation of the right to social protest by peaceful means within the framework of democratic institutions, as well as their categorical and energetic rejection of the actions of violence and intolerance that we have observed in the social mobilizations that began last week.

The situation is already sufficiently serious and uncertain in its consequences to treat it as a simple disturbance and threat to public order. Certainly, reestablishing this order is a priority. In the same way, it would be regrettable and above all irresponsible not to make a serene and shared effort to identify the social, economic and cultural causes that could explain what is happening.

Our vocation for dialogue and respect for the diversity that every democratic society must embrace, impels us at the same time to express with the greatest emphasis that now more than yesterday we need genuine and virtuous democratic deliberation, without opportunism or ill-earned advantages of one or the other. other side. The institutions of democracy require our most loyal commitment today. To this purpose we want to contribute, putting at the service of Chile and the various political actors the capacities with which we can contribute to said deliberative process, as well as to the care and development of our democracy.

For these reasons, we call on all those who make up the national community to reestablish as soon as possible a climate of civic trust and peace in social coexistence to achieve a more edifying dialogue and a more inclusive democracy.

Monday 21 October of 2019

Dear ULS Community:

The current events that our country is experiencing and that seriously affect tranquility and social coexistence, have kept us with all our campuses closed, thereby seeking to contribute to the safety of our entire university community.

The closure measure – which was initially extended until today, Tuesday, October 22 – has been re-evaluated by this Rector's Office, in light of the new events, deciding to extend the suspension of academic and administrative activities for the entirety of this week. school, that is, until Friday, October 25 inclusive.

The above is consistent with what was stated by the FEULS yesterday, in the sense of ensuring the safety of everyone who is part of the ULS community, who, due to transportation difficulties, added to the complex scenario social, could have conditions of high risk for their integrity.

Once the social conditions are in place, we will be able to resume our university functions, with full protection of the safety of our community and academic activities, especially teaching activities.

Finally, it should be noted that the University will continue to periodically evaluate the situation, to promptly inform, through all official communication channels, any other decision that is adopted in the following days.

Dr. Alejandra Torrejón Vergara

Rector(s)

La Serena, October 22, 2019.

The rectors and rectors of the eighteen Universities of the State of Chile, we want to express our opinion regarding the events that are taking place in our country.

The large social mobilizations of recent days have revealed a deep discomfort in Chilean society as a result of the social, cultural and economic model that we have built for decades and that has not been able to reduce inequality and promote social cohesion in our country. country.

It was proclaimed that the privatization of fundamental public services, such as education, health, pensions, transportation and health services, would be the mechanism so that social integration based on personal effort and meritocratic individualism would allow development with prosperity for all. and all. This has not happened. On the contrary, the measures implemented under the principles of this model have been ineffective as demonstrated by the increase in social inequality, visible in the income gap between the richest and poorest deciles, social and urban segregation, and in access to education and health, among other fundamental services.

In this context, promoting dialogue and non-violence necessarily requires a new social pact whose horizon and actions tend to return to the path of cohesion and social justice.

State universities, as a space for understanding and dialogue in these significant processes of change, offer our political authorities and the regional and national society to which we owe, all the capabilities of our students, academics and the university community in general, with creativity, freedom and tolerance to contribute to this urgent task.

We are facing a unique and historic opportunity that we cannot waste.

CONSORTIUM OF UNIVERSITIES OF THE STATE OF CHILE

 Santiago, October 21, 2019

Public Communiqué from the ULS Rectory.

The activity has an available space of 80 participants.

The University of La Serena, through its APRENDEULS program, invites the First Meeting of Peer Tutors in the Northern Zone, to be held on November 11 and 12 of this year, in order to share experiences in higher education.

The purpose of the meeting is to be a space for reflection, dialogue and exchange of experiences between peer tutors, in the context of student support programs in Higher Education.

The Executive Director PACE-APRENDE ULS, Mg. Viviana Romero explained the importance of this instance. "The activity lies in the fact that it will allow us to learn about the way in which peer tutoring is worked in various universities in the country, and this exchange of knowledge will benefit both APRENDEULS and all the programs that participate in the meeting, promoting improvements in practices in this area and , jointly, seeks to be an instance to establish the Northern Zone Peer Tutors Network,” he said.

This meeting has a limited capacity for 80 participants.

Modalities of participation

The activity includes four modalities of participation for tutors, which translate into presentations, which must be in Power Point or Prezi with a maximum of 15 minutes of presentation; poster, showing a synthesis of the tutorial experience; and as an assistant to all the activities of the meeting or at the dialogue tables.

Summaries for both presentations and posters must contain a summary of a maximum of 350 words.

The deadline to submit the works and the closing of registrations will be Monday, November 4 and the summary on Friday, October 25, 2019.

More information in http://aprendeuls.userena.cl/encuentrozonanorte

Written by Daniel Aguayo, PACE ULS Program