ULS creates General Coordination of Duties and Rights for Comprehensive Training within the institution

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Its functions are to disseminate, guide and promote a culture of equity, safeguard the rights and duties of all ULS students, respecting the characteristics that define them.

Promoting the inclusion and integration of all the students of the University of La Serena, encouraging them to become professionals and citizens committed to the equality of fundamental rights and duties, was the motivation that the institution argued for ordering the creation of a new area: General Coordination of Duties and Rights for the Comprehensive Training of Students.

Housed in the Academic Vice-Rectory, it is a general area whose creation was reflected in Decree No. 127/2020, reaffirming the commitment that state university institutions acquire, to encourage their students to develop values ​​that allow them to face the system with a strong ethical sense, promoting respect and equality of rights and duties among all those who make up the university community and with all who are related.

For the Academic Vice Chancellor, Dr. Alejandra Torrejón, the birth of this new area is based on multiple factors, including the institutional need to organize, unite and optimize the functions of the various areas aimed at promoting the inclusion and integration of all The students of the University of La Serena in a General Coordination area, which facilitates the monitoring and promotion of initiatives focused on a culture of equity and interconnection between them. "In this way, greater visibility will also be given to the already formed areas of Human Rights, Inclusion and Disability, Gender and Diversity and Interculturality and others that may be generated in the future," the authority specified.

In addition, the implementation of this new area is consistent with the opinions issued by the Ministry of Education when it comes to ensuring equal access to all students in the training process, as well as the protection of equitable treatment. that facilitates respect for differences within the university community, framed in an integrative policy at the national level, protected by current regulations of General Application such as Law No. 20.609/2012 -called the Zamudio Law-.

"The functions of the Coordination of Rights and Duties for Comprehensive Training are to disseminate, guide and promote a culture of equity, safeguard the rights and duties of all students of the University of La Serena, respecting the characteristics that they define, articulating with the Faculties, Departments, Schools and/or Careers, in order to promote initiatives that contribute to generating social awareness and valuing one another as an equal”, says the ULS Academic Vice Chancellor.

Organization

The General Coordination of Rights and Duties for Comprehensive Training will be made up of four areas: Human Rights, in charge of ensuring respect for the rights and duties of the students of the University of La Serena; Inclusion and Disability, in charge of safeguarding respect for the rights and duties of students with some degree of disability, seeking optimal development within the training process and adequate integration into university life; Gender and Diversity, in charge of ensuring respect for the rights and duties of all students who identify or not with a specific gender, regardless of their biological sex; Interculturality, in charge of safeguarding respect for the rights and duties of all those students who identify themselves as part of a particular culture or subculture.

The Coordination will be directly linked to the different already existing academic units, among which it is possible to highlight the Office of International Relations and the Center for the Prevention of Harassment.

The conduct of the Coordination of Rights and Duties for Comprehensive Training will be in charge of the academic Mg. Cristian Blanco, from the FACSEJ, and on Friday, June 5, the first meeting was held, via Zoom, for the implementation of the coordination, with the presence of the Academic Vice Chancellor, Dr. Alejandra Torrejón.