OFFICIAL STATEMENT OF THE RECTORY N°12

La Serena, December 04, 2019.

Dear ULS Community:

Continuing with the policy of keeping you informed in relation to aspects associated with the contingency and institutional work, I would like to point out the following:

1. As the University of La Serena we continue to support social demands aimed at achieving greater social equity in our country and protection of human rights. In this sense, I appreciate the interest of our community in participating in the different activities that have been organized in recent weeks and that reflect a committed university community that wants to contribute to the construction of a more just and supportive country for all (as ).

It is in this same spirit that total respect for student strikes and limited work activities must be understood, tending to generate constructive and valuable three-state approaches, which reflect the hallmark of our institution.

In this same context, I would like to highlight the work of the lawyer Mrs. Elizabeth Escobar Toro and her team, to whom I have requested continue with support in the face of possible violations of Human Rights to members of the ULS community.

2. At the level of the demands of officials and academics, it is important that they know that the Triestamental Commission of the Academic Council -made up of the Association of AF Academics, the Association of AF Officials and the Student Federation- is working on the construction of a first approximation of the 2020 Budget.

This authority, like the university community, hopes and trusts that the 2020 budget includes all the requirements, both union and academic, in a realistic manner, as has been done in previous years, when the Triestamental Commission has presented an initial proposal of the Budget to be analyzed by the Academic Council, and then submitted to the approval of the Board of Directors.

3. Having officially received by the CUECH the CONFECH Proposal for the Closing of the Second Semester 2019, which should be discussed by said body on December 07 in Valparaíso, we share some contents of it, which mainly raises the following:

• Given the situation, the students point out that neither the rectories, nor the teachers, nor the workers, nor the student federations, through their representatives, can ensure the physical and mental integrity of the members of their university communities and that, because they are of an atypical situation out of control of civil society, this prevents a normal closing of the second semester, which generates negative consequences for the houses of study and the groups that comprise them.

• Likewise, they point out that, considering the implications that attending the different departments of the universities would have for everyone to comply with an academic calendar that has inevitably been interrupted, today the complete will of all levels is required to find a solution and a way out that does not prevent the completion of studies, proposing an action plan for the end of the semester.

• Confech adds that university students must define semester closing strategies that ensure their permanence, especially for those families who do not have the resources or opportunities to sustain their studies. They propose solutions that must be discussed in student plenary sessions at the national level. The syntheses of these discussions will be collected on Saturday, December 7 in the city of Valparaíso, in the national CONFECH plenary session, in order to decide, together, the best path that the students believe is the one we should follow.

Highlighted the above, I attach the CONFECH DISCUSSION DOCUMENT dated November 28, 2019 for your information.

Finally, comment that, in an upcoming session of the Expanded Academic Affairs Committee - which considers Deans, Directors, Associations of Academics and AF Officials and also the Student Federation - these issues will be addressed based on what is proposed. the student body.

Due to the above and appealing to the prevailing situation, support, understanding and a sense of solidarity are required from each of the levels of our house of studies, to jointly face a possible closing of the semester, considering the multiple factors that They must be kept in mind when making decisions as important as this one.

He greets you with attention,

Dr. Nibaldo Aviles Pizarro

Rector

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