OFFICIAL COMMUNICATION N°9 OF THE RECTORY

La Serena, Friday, November 15, 2019.

Dear ULS Community:

Today marks the end of a week since we decided to open university spaces and launch a program of reflection and gradual restart of activities, which will empathize with the social situation, providing balanced security conditions to the university community and meeting options to reflect and propose. solutions to citizens' demands.

After the first week under this modality – which included in-person hours from 08:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. – this morning the Rector's Committee met, composed of Deans, Vice-Rectors and representatives of both associations of academic and non-academic officials and also, representatives of the Federation of Students (FEULS), with the purpose of evaluating the impact of the measures and defining courses of action for the following days.

After reviewing the background – which included the reports from the ULS security area and the positions of the Faculties, associations of academic and non-academic officials, the Student Federation and the Rectorate – the following was resolved:

1. Continue in administrative and academic work activities without classes, during the week from Monday, November 18 to Friday, November 22, inclusive, addressing the existing student strike, providing the facilities for the university community to actively participate in the instances of dialogue, reflection and proposals that the different academic and non-academic units are promoting.
2. Extend the opening hours of campus and annex buildings, as well as the stay of academic and non-academic officials, under a continuous day modality, from 08:00 to 16:00 hrs., with a 30-minute snack break. At this point, special flexibility is requested to understand the different situations that may arise.
3. The School Directors and/or Career Coordinators must generate spaces for conversation and meeting with their students, with the purpose of visualizing future actions, in the context of reflection in which we find ourselves and respecting the paralysis of activities that this student group has decided.
4. Comply with the attendance record by unit on the different campuses and annex buildings, agreeing with the headquarters on the signature modality, with the corresponding flexibility.

As ordered by the full Academic Council, the measures and actions will continue to be evaluated periodically, in order to ensure their relevance and opportunity in the dynamic and uncertain social scenario that is presented, in order to resume full activities when possible.

Greetings with special attention,

Dr. Nibaldo Aviles Pizarro

Rector