Dr. César Espíndola was invited as a featured student at the Vocational Technical Training Week.

An interesting talk to the young students of the Salesianos School of La Serena was given by the academic and director of the University of La Serena, Dr. César Espíndola, who was invited in his capacity as a prominent alumni of said establishment.

In the exhibition framed in the Vocational Technical Training Week, the academic from the Department of Industrial Engineering and Director of Strategic Development and Quality of the ULS, shared his experience with the young people and how technical training led him to other training spaces. 

The academic had the opportunity to remember passages of his life in the school environment, and highlight the support that the school provided him, in extra-programmatic and curricular branches, which allowed him to arrive at the university on “good footing.”

The rector of the establishment, Enriqueta Villalobos, thanked the professional for his willingness and also invited him to participate in future events, emphasizing that the Salesianos School does not forget its students.

In addition, the academic delivered 10 copies of the book “Carbon Footprint” to the establishment's library. This is a research carried out by the professional regarding climate change, sustainable management and energy efficiency.

Written by Patricia Castro, DirCom

The activity was led by the project manager of the accreditation agency, Mg. Jessica Pizarro, and had the participation of the ULS Rector, Dr. Nibaldo Avilés, as well as authorities and academics from the University.

With the objective of working towards an institutional accreditation process that ensures quality in the training process of the faculties of Social and Economic Sciences and Engineering of the University of La Serena, the workshop “Ensuring quality in the process” was developed. formative. Results of the process focused on student learning”, by the accreditation agency Acredita CI, belonging to the College of Engineers of Chile.

The activity was attended by the Rector of the university, Dr. Nibaldo Avilés, as well as authorities and academics from both faculties, who actively participated in the presentation focused on the training process of their students.

For Rector Avilés, “it is important to implement new processes that ensure the quality of academic training within the university. “The future of any institution and, above all, universities, is absolutely related to the implementation of integrated quality systems, a necessary process for us to move forward. As the University of La Serena we have worked on important advances to comply with the standards established by this system, facing the next accreditation process,” he specified.

During the workshop, international models were presented on the implementation of quality in the training processes of universities and the results they have in the long term. This was explained by the project manager of the accrediting agency of the College of Engineers of Chile, Mg. Jessica Pizarro: “new ways of looking at student results and the impact this generates on comprehensive institutional accreditation were presented. The idea is to improve what has been done, through new international trends in how to look at training processes and focus on student results; The mission now is for the institution to take this new system into its Educational Model and incorporate it as part of daily work, demonstrating that it is work that ensures quality.”

Written by Tomás Rodríguez, DirCom

 

 

To carry out the modification process, the institution took advantage of the provisions of the Law on State Universities and began a public and participatory process, where the different levels of the university community will intervene, in pursuit of the changes that will be carried out. cape.

The process that the University of La Serena began to make modifications to the Statute that has governed the institution since 1981 was cataloged as a fact of absolute and historical relevance, and that due to legal provisions did not allow changes.

These modifications, which will be carried out by representative commissions of all university levels, will be carried out under the collaborative work modality, where there will be periodic meetings, under an organic one that the representatives themselves will establish, in order to reach editorial offices that represent the work of the ULS.

The ULS Statute Commission will be made up of 24 members and 12 substitutes representing academics, non-academic officials and students.

“An election process was carried out for the members of the commissions, which demonstrates a high interest in this historic moment for the University in working on the Statute proposals. The commissions will have the task of proposing and informing us how the process is, of meeting deadlines, and it is everyone's task to demonstrate that as a University we are doing work to project our institution to a higher level, not only with what is required of us. academic level, but also to represent the concerns of all the people who are in our institution, aspirations that must be contained in our statutes (...). It is a unique opportunity to be able to combine all the needs of our institution,” declared the Rector of the ULS, Nibaldo Avilés.

During the constitution ceremony of the Commission and once the decrees that formalized the beginning of the process had been read, it was established that the Statute Commission must have a president, who must necessarily be an academic, in addition to a vice president and a secretary.

Election of board of directors Commission Statute

After the signing of the commitment, the Statute Commission began its first session, with the purpose of holding the elections of president, vice president and secretary, in addition to establishing the organic guidelines that will allow them to draft the proposals for modifications.

The academic and Dean of the Faculty of Humanities, Dr. Cristián Noemi, was elected as president of the Commission, the academic of the Department of Music, Rodrigo Díaz, as vice president, and the non-academic official and member of the Association of ULS Officials as secretary, Cecilia Hernandez.

The Statute Commission will have various functions, including planning the process of modifying the Statute, preparing a work schedule and presenting it to the Academic Council and Board of Directors, preparing internal operating regulations, ensuring the highly participatory process, among others.

The deadline for delivery of the final proposal will be in August 2020, and the new Statute of the University of La Serena to the President of the Republic, through the Ministry of Education, will be in June 2021.

Statute Commission:

Faculty of Science

Regular Members:

• Marco Corgini Videla
• Miguel Ramos Tapia
• Iván Fernández Rojas
• Alexandre Roman Lopes

Substitute Members:

• Alejandra Jana Araya
• Carmen Jorquera Jaramillo

Faculty of Social and Economic Sciences

Regular Members:

• German Solis Godoy
• Luperfina Rojas Escobar
• Patricia Cortés Iturrieta
• Carolina Rodriguez Malebran

Substitute Members:

• Andrés Álvarez Cortés
• Arlyn Orellana Mcbride

Faculty of Humanities

Regular Members

• Cristián Noemi Padilla
• Hector Bugueño Egaña
• Juan Diaz Cuevas
• Maria Campos Carreño

Substitute Members

• Elvis Campos Palacios
• Raúl Pinto Rodríguez

Faculty of Engineering

Regular Members

• Mario Gaete Madariaga
• Alejandro Orellana McBride
• Sunday Vega Bull
• Carolina Ponce Arias

Substitute Members

• Luis Eyquem Santoro
• Moisés Villablanca, who took voluntary retirement in accordance with Law No. 21.043

Officials

Regular Members

• Cecilia Hernandez Araya
• Veronica Huerta Romero
• Carmen Rojas Aguirre
• Luis Carrasco Castro

Substitute Members

• Karina Núñez Varela
• Carlos Lagos Moraga

Students

Regular Members

• Cristóbal Villalobos Nahuelñir
• Karla San Francisco González
• Alejandro Ortiz Astudillo
• Valeria Chacana Alarcón

Substitute Members

• Maria Jose Vasquez
• Jorge Illanes Fernandez

Written by Patricia Castro, DirCom

 

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The University of La Serena continues to work on sharing knowledge with the community in response to the institutional seal.

“An unforgettable experience”, this is how the more than 200 students from different schools in La Serena and Coquimbo who enjoyed a new day of the Mobile Planetarium described it.

The event, organized by the University of La Serena through an agreement with the National Commission for Scientific and Technological Research, CONICYT, seeks to bring astronomy closer to the community, allowing various activities aimed at schools, university students, community centers and the general public.

Dr. Marcelo Jaque, in charge of the initiative and academic of the Department. of Physics and Astronomy ULS, stated that the balance of the work carried out in the different days of the Mobile Planetarium has been a success. "The call fills up in half an hour. We make the call and the places are filled very quickly. The planetarium is practically becoming a necessity for the community, they know it exists and they are waiting for this initiative to generate the link and thus students can learn more about astronomy," he said.

This Mobile Planetarium works as a circular theater, combining astronomical knowledge with dissemination, bringing the mysteries of the universe and its most surprising aspects to the community.

Martina, who is in the sixth year of basic education at the Colegio Alemán de La Serena, participated with her classmates, who were able to learn more details about the universe. "I really liked the card game, I had a lot of fun with my friends and the planetarium was a very nice experience. I liked the galaxies they showed, the constellations, all that."

Patricio Díaz, counselor at the Domingo Santa María de La Serena School, highlighted the enthusiasm of the students to learn more about astronomy and generate a first encounter between the girls and boys with the University. "This instance allows us to break the school routine and access learning in a more playful, innovative way and get closer to the world of science within a university campus. It delivers and produces the development of skills that today we want to enhance in our students," he said. the teacher.

For her part, Francisca Tabilo, student of Mathematics and Physics Pedagogy at the University of La Serena, and monitor at the mobile planetarium, highlighted the new tools that participating in this initiative gives her. “Seeing children in different activities related to science is wonderful. The amazement they have when they are inside, when they leave or when they ask their questions, in that sense, the experience is different from a professional practice.”

In this way, the University of La Serena continues to work on sharing knowledge with the community in response to the institutional seal.

Written by Sergio Muñoz, Science and Technology Dissemination and Dissemination Team

This is a qualitative study on teachers' subjective theories regarding the implementation of transversal objectives in a commune in northern Chile (Alto Hospicio).

The academic from the ULS Department of Psychology, Dr. Pablo Castro, published the article “Subjective theories of teachers on the implementation of transversal objectives in a complex context” in the journal Psicoperspectivas (quartile 2).

In the article by Dr. Pablo Castro, Rodrigo González (U. de Tarapacá) and Omer Meza (U. Católica del Maule), a qualitative study is presented on teachers' subjective theories regarding the implementation of transversal objectives in a commune in northern Chile (Alto Hospicio).

Thanks to this work, it was found that teachers understand contextualization practices as the articulating axis of different transversal educational practices. Finally, the foundation of the teachers' subjective theories was analyzed taking into account previous research.

Read the article here 

It is an academic space for reflection on the use of information and communications technologies (ICT) and its impact on the teaching-learning process.

The Department of Education and the Interdisciplinary Center for Latin American Studies of the University of La Serena together with the Regional Center for Teacher Training and Educational Research (CRESUR) of Mexico, invite you to participate in the International Seminar on Education and Technologies “Building the Education of the Future” , which will take place on Thursday, September 05 and Friday, September 06 at the Support Center for the Teaching of the Humanities (CADH) of the Isabel Bongard ULS Campus.

The activity is part of the framework cooperation agreement (2016), signed between the University of La Serena and CRESUR, and the binational project: "Technological Classroom 4.0", which promotes the creation of a high-tech classroom at the service of education in the school.

The Seminar is an academic space for reflection on the use of information and communications technologies (ICT) and its impact on the teaching-learning process, analyzing how they allow the transfer of knowledge, self-learning and understanding. , as well as the development of new competencies and skills that the XNUMXst century demands.

This is a meeting to begin to project the new classroom of the future, where, through technology, social inclusion and the democratization of learning are promoted, making students more autonomous in the learning process. A meeting to think and deliberate on how education and technology develop open, continuous and flexible learning.

For this event there are outstanding panelists who will reflect on the education of the future from the new multimedia context! of technologies, deploying considerations and reflections around the new educational space of the future, the philosophy that underlies it, the new material conditions necessary for the teaching-learning process, the creation of new content and knowledge and the generation of new cooperative environments .

The Seminar invites you to think about how to use information and communication technologies (ICT) in education, to speculate on educational innovation from new digital learning environments and from the new technological tools necessary for the education of the future.

The activity is aimed at ULS Pedagogy students, academics from the institution's Department of Education, teachers from the unit who teach Technology courses or who develop educational innovation projects, and educators from educational establishments in the Region. from Coquimbo.

Registration

The Seminar is free and open. However, spaces are limited (70 people), so confirmation of attendance is requested via email to: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..