On Monday, March 19, classes for the First Semester 2018 begin for new and returning students.

This Monday, March 5, academic activities resumed at the University of La Serena, after the summer break that ended on Friday, the 2st of this month.

According to the 2018 Academic Calendar, this Wednesday, March 6, the enrollment and registration of subjects of former students from the First Semester 2018 continues, while from the 6th to the 12th of this month the Planning of Teaching Activities and configuration of the evaluation procedures in PTDI platform.

From March 12 to 16, the Induction to University Life for new students will take place. In addition, on Friday the 16th of the same month the registration period for courses for former students of the First Semester 2018 ends, and the internal delivery of enrollment information required by MINEDUC for the student benefits allocation process is also set.  

On Monday, March 19, classes for the First Semester 2018 begin for new and returning students, and on Tuesday, March 20, the inauguration of the 2018 Academic Year will take place.

For more information on the 2018 Academic Calendar, visit the following link (http://www.userena.cl/images/archivos/calendario_academico_2018.pdf).

The young people arrived with enthusiasm to take these first steps as ULS students, many of them accompanied by their parents and family.

The enrollment process at the University of La Serena was a complete success, in which more than 1.730 new students became part of their undergraduate careers.

The Rector of the state campus, Dr. Nibaldo Avilés, positively evaluated the process and highlighted the high number of enrolled students, “which demonstrates the interest of young people in pursuing their higher studies at our University, a prestigious institution committed to the quality assurance".

For his part, the Head of Admission and Enrollment, Eduardo Rojo, expressed that the institution's courses improved their scores and that it was a normal process, where the students were attended to without difficulty, “with personnel who helped them in the different points, providing all kinds of support to resolve your doubts.”

The young people arrived at the Ignacio Domeyko Campus with enthusiasm to undertake these first steps as ULS students, many of them accompanied by their parents and relatives, who were able to very expeditiously carry out each of the procedures involved in the process.

Carlos Olivares, one of the new students of the school, was happy to enroll in the ULS and in the Commercial Engineering career, motivated to “use it as a life tool, since it has multiple strategies in the economic area, the issue of creating a business and, mainly, your own label.”

While the new student, Juliana Barraza, pointed out that she chose the University of La Serena “because of the tradition and prestige it has, in addition to being located in my city.”

These days included the participation of different units of the higher education institution, whose professionals, administrators and monitors worked to support this process that was developed expeditiously, providing the best welcome to the students selected in their undergraduate programs.

The recordings will be used in the official events of the house of higher education.

The academics of the Department of Music, Hugo Domínguez and Gonzalo Tomckowiack, presented the Rector of the University of La Serena, Dr. Nibaldo Avilés, with two copies of the recordings of the National Anthem of Chile and the University Anthem, performed by the “Jorge Peña Hen” Youth Symphony Orchestra and the ULS Vocal Ensemble, groups directed by the aforementioned teachers.

“It is a project that we had in mind since last year with the choir director, Gonzalo Tomckowiack, to leave here these versions of recordings that can be used by the institution,” explained professor Hugo Domínguez, who a few days ago had an emotional farewell to the stage, after being uninterruptedly for more than 30 years under the baton of the Youth Symphony Orchestra.

The highest university authority valued the delivery of these recordings and the work carried out by the orchestra and the ensemble, highlighting the significance of “that they are quality groups and from the institution itself that perform the anthems, which will be used in the ceremonies and the official acts of the University of La Serena”.

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