The instance is in charge of the Postgraduate and Postgraduate Directorate, and the Information and Computing Center (CICULS).

Another important step in the task of improving processes that allow continued progress in achieving standards for a complex university was taken this week with the presentation of new applications in the Postgraduate and Postgraduate Computer Platform of the University of La Serena.

For this presentation, a meeting was organized to which the highest authorities of the University were summoned, together with the program directors, their coordinators and the secretaries of said sub-units that depend on the Directorate. of Postgraduate and Postgraduate Studies, attached to the Vice-Rector's Office for Research and Postgraduate Studies.

This meeting is part of the meetings that will be held periodically with the objective of reporting on the state of progress and the projections that have been proposed for the development of both this Platform and, particularly, the guidelines for the development of the field of postgraduate and postgraduate degrees of the institution.

On the occasion, there was a brief analysis of what had been done, the foundations for addressing other program administration situations, the analysis of proposals to build the curricula of academics and students of the University, and the outline of a way to address the reports. presented to the National Accreditation Commission (CNA), making use of the institutional database.

“The objective of the implementation of this Platform is to support management in the field of postgraduate and postgraduate degrees, with the idea of ​​achieving systematized data and permanent availability of updated information so that the different programs can develop the analyzes they need and their respective applications in the development of their programs. This goes beyond the accreditation of the different programs, we are thinking about accrediting the University in the Postgraduate dimension, as well as in institutional accreditation. It will be up to each of us to collaborate to maintain the database so that at all times it is a reflection of our reality and feedback to the system so that we can obtain the best results and its potential from it," said the Rector of the University of La Serena. , Dr. Nibaldo Avilés Pizarro.

For his part, the Director of Postgraduate and Postgraduate Studies, Dr. Jorge Rojas Lobos, thanked those invited for their attendance and emphasized that “the development of this platform still has enormous possibilities for improvement, we have identified what the CNA wants and needs, but We also want to have the essential feedback to highlight the strengths we have. I am certain that the program directors will collaborate with us to make it a useful and effective tool. For this reason, in the month of March, we will have a survey that will allow us to measure a set of variables typical of an investigation to identify topics to be addressed and satisfaction of system users.”

The access to pedagogies program is aimed at third-year middle school students, who have a real interest in the teaching profession.

Under the auspices of the Integrated Pedagogical Management Unit (UGIP), the “I Want to Be an Education Professional” (QSPE) program was born in 2017, which seeks to attract students who have a teaching vocation and good academic performance. The team that leads this great work is made up of teachers Lic. Diego Contreras and Lic. Gerardo Galleguillos, and the psychologist Andrea Hoces, who have had the responsibility of socializing the project among the different actors of the school system, selecting the participants and coordinate the entire academic process.

Student Almendra Martínez, one of the program participants, started classes in November like her 26 classmates, making up the first generation of the plan. Two months after its start, she commented that “the professors as well as the working students have been of great help, they give us what they have learned during their studies, and what the university environment is like. The contents that have been given to us, in my personal perception, have helped me a lot, I can see things differently thanks to what the teachers have taught us.”

In that sense, the first modules of the program have focused on developing the psychosocial area of ​​the students, classes that are taught by Mg. Viviana Romero and the psychopedagogue Adolfo Chacana, and which will end at the end of March of this year.

“When I arrived on the first day, they gave us a 'mini workshop' so that we could gain confidence, where we met my colleagues and future colleagues. They always group us in different ways to achieve greater closeness between us all and support each other, and they always treat us as part of the University and make us feel comfortable within it,” added the student.

When asked about the reason that led her to be part of the program, she explained that it was “because since I was very little I have liked teaching, and the fact of being able to deliver knowledge to the little ones makes me happy and that is what matters most to me; That's why I want to study Pedagogy in Basic General Education. I believe that this program will contribute to improving the quality of education, because it is carried out after several stages and we see the real vocation of what each participant wants to study and why they want to choose that career.

During the month of April, the QSPE program will begin the academic area, hoping to maintain the high commitment that students have shown to date.

“In this area, the development of skills in mathematics as well as discursive competencies will be sought, considering this as a basis for the development of pedagogical and disciplinary standards once they are part of one of the ULS pedagogy programs,” said the academic coordinator. of the program, Lic. Gerardo Galleguillos.

Thus, students have gradually approached university life, clearing up their doubts on the one hand, and enhancing what motivated them to join this initiative: being an educational professional.

More information about the program at http://pedagogias.userena.cl/programa-quiero-profesional-la-educacion/.

Source: PMI FIP ULS1501 Press

The activity brought together School Directors, career coordinators and Department Directors of the ULS.

The Support and Effective Access to Higher Education Program, PACE, University of La Serena, held the Meeting “Support Strategy in Higher Education”, focused on School Directors, Career Coordinators and Department Directors of the university. superiors.

The meeting was held within the framework of the Support Component in Higher Education (AES), aimed at managers of the University of La Serena, to publicize the support and monitoring strategies carried out during 2017 and their projections for this year 2018. .

For Claudia Toledo, AES coordinator, this instance was significant. “It is very important to point out the importance of inclusion programs in higher education; as well as frame the Program as an initiative of the MINEDUC and take advantage of presenting the work carried out by the team with the students of our University to directors, career coordinators, among other authorities,” she explained.

The purpose of this component is to accompany students in their first year of higher education to facilitate their progress and permanence, through the implementation of devices that respond to their academic and psychoeducational needs.

Within this context, the Executive Coordinator of the PACE ULS Accompaniment Program, Viviana Romero, and the SECREDUC PACE Coordinator, María Irene Cortés, presented information to the attendees about the Accompaniment Program within the higher education institution and in the national context. , analyzing and evaluating the results obtained in 2017 of the students assigned to the Program. On the occasion, the importance of monitoring and tracking students using the information provided by institutional platforms was also recognized.

The AES Coordinator explained the importance of Early Warning, “which is very important for us as a team, since through different processes we constantly monitor our students, so that if any anomaly is detected in the student's performance , we can immediately contact you and begin the actions pertinent to the specific case, whether due to spontaneous demand, action protocol of the guardians, among others.

Source: Press PACE ULS Program

This January, two courses brought together students and graduates from the university, as well as external participants, to get closer to probabilities, algebra and geometry. One of these initiatives is available on the DMATV online channel for the community.

With full places, the free summer courses of the Department of Mathematics of the University of La Serena were held, which, for two weeks in January, brought together students from different careers of the institution, also graduates in pedagogy and engineering, in its facilities. ULS and external participants, who wanted to return to the classrooms for a few days this summer.

“Probabilities in Secondary Education” and “Fundamentals of Mathematics and Geometry” were the two alternatives available on this occasion, after a successful first experience of this type in the summer of 2017.

The first of them was intended for 30 teachers, graduates in Pedagogy in Mathematics and Computing from this university and high school mathematics teachers from different municipal schools and high schools.

The activity was funded by the PMI FIP ULS 1501 Institutional Improvement Plan for Pedagogies and its professor in charge was Dr. Ken Matsuda Oteiza, who addressed content such as: Normal and binomial distribution, Mathematical hope, Bayes' Theorem and Total Probability, in theoretical-practical classes that lasted for a week.

During the closing ceremony, the participants received a document for their attendance at the course and greetings from the Director of the Department of Mathematics, Dr. Marco Corgini Videla, the Coordinator of the Mathematics and Computing Pedagogy degree, Mg. Luisa Elgueta Alucema, and the Alternate Executive Director of the PMI FIP ULS 1501, Dr. Fabián Araya Palacios.

Then it was the turn of “Fundamentals of Mathematics and Geometry”, which also filled its 30 places with students and graduates of Bachelor's degrees in Mathematics, Astronomy and Physics, Civil, Mining and Environmental Civil Engineering, as well as Pedagogy. in Mathematics and Computing and Ped. in Mathematics and Physics, along with professionals and external students, who even came from the Atacama Region.

Here there were two modules (Algebra and Geometry) that were taught in one week by the academics of the Department of Mathematics, Dr. Marco Corgini and Dr. Héctor Moreno Barrera, and the evaluation made by the unit is “excellent. We had a significant number of students, very interested, very participatory, with the basic knowledge necessary to understand the topics we covered in this course, which were not simple. “We are all very happy with the final result of this activity,” said the Director of the Department.

“A bit in the context of the 'open university', which was established by Michel Onfray in France, the idea is to welcome the community, the students, the students and the people who are interested in coming to our house of higher education. . That is an obligation that we have, ethically, to deliver to the community what we know how to do, and that is to develop knowledge. Obviously, this is an initiative that does not end here, our teachers, our academics are absolutely committed to this task,” the academic stressed.

For his part, Dr. Moreno commented that “it is the first time that I have participated in this type of instance. We had a fairly heterogeneous level of participants, from school students to graduates, so the dynamics that took place in classes were a very nice experience.”

An equally positive assessment was made by the students of the course, who expressed great interest in initiatives of this type continuing to be repeated in the summers and in addressing different topics, including general training. For Cristian Salinas Madariaga, titled Ped. in Mathematics and Physics from the U. of La Serena, these courses “favor a little the interaction between teachers and also the fact of sharing certain experiences and being in contact with this type of teaching that, of course, is given by the teacher and, of course, One way or another, they make us resume the school year again with a refreshment around our discipline, our subject.”

The students with the best attendance at the course received books as a gift and the document confirming their participation. “Fundamentals of Mathematics and Geometry” is available to the community on the online channel www.youtube.com/matematicasuls, in the Free Summer Courses section.

The Pedro Pablo Muñoz School in La Higuera, and the Gabriela Mistral and Técnico Marta Brunet high schools in La Serena, are the establishments that join the Program.

In a pleasant meeting, the official welcome was held to the three new educational establishments in the communes of La Higuera and La Serena, which starting this year will be part of the Support and Effective Access to Higher Education Program (PACE) University of La Serene.

With the presence of the Academic Vice-Rector, Dr. Jorge Catalán, the Director of Teaching, Mg. Laura Vega, part of the institution's PACE Team and representatives of the new educational establishments assigned to the PACE Program, went to the first welcome activity organized by the house of higher education to welcome the Pedro Pablo Muñoz School of La Higuera , and the Gabriela Mistral and Técnico Marta Brunet high schools in La Serena.

For the Executive Coordinator of the PACE ULS Accompaniment Program, Viviana Romero, this is a very pleasant instance: “we are very happy to receive these three educational establishments in our Program, since it is a way to continue strengthening public education and providing support to more students. This year 2018 presents us with new challenges and we have the expectation and hope that this work can contribute to the consolidation of the Program. We extend a cordial welcome to the Gabriela Mistral High School, the Marta Brunet Technical High School and the Pedro Pablo Muñoz School in La Higuera.”

On the other hand, the director of the Pedro Pablo Muñoz School, Alejandra Zúñiga, expressed that “as an educational establishment we are happy to belong to the Program under the auspices of the University of La Serena. We live in a fairly vulnerable commune, where children, in order to study, have to travel, and some getting up so early caused them to drop out. Now we promote secondary education, which has around 60 students (...). It is an opportunity that not everyone has, to have a future and in addition to that, for the entire school community to aim towards the same goal, the education of our students.”

Meanwhile, the director of the Gabriela Mistral High School, Lorena Rodríguez, expressed her gratitude to the University of La Serena and “for this new opportunity that my educational establishment has to provide, through the PACE Program, more tools to my students to be able to enter to higher education, because it is the opportunity for those who do not have many opportunities for a better quality education. We were looking forward to this news and it finally came true. "I have nothing left but to say thank you and start working for and for the students of public education."

Source: Press PACE ULS Program

This is Fernando Rojas Galleguillos, who obtained the title of Kinesiologist and the degree of Bachelor of Kinesiology.

The University of La Serena conferred the title of Kinesiologist and the degree of Bachelor of Kinesiology to Fernando Emilio Rojas Galleguillos, who thus becomes the first graduate of this career from the state campus of the Coquimbo Region.

It should be remembered that the Kinesiology career, like the Dentistry, Law, Engineering in Business Administration and Bachelor of Astronomy programs, began to be taught in 2013, responding to the labor market requirements associated with the strategy of regional development and, above all, providing new opportunities for the youth of the region.

The Kinesiology career, attached to the Faculty of Sciences, has the human being as its object of study, considering it as a system in constant movement. It focuses on primary care with deep foundations in the management of musculoskeletal dysfunctions, through integrative manual therapies (osteopathy, chiropractic, orthopedic manual therapy).