The Seminar “Admission Challenges 2021” ULS is successfully held

Challenges Seminar

The event brought together counselors and directors from various educational establishments in the Coquimbo Region.

Topics such as the changes and challenges in the Admission 2021 system, the new Platform for access to higher education and the presentation of testimonies from school directors and ULS students, were part of the “2021 Admission Challenges Seminar” organized by the Academic Vice-Rector's Office, through the Teaching Directorate and its Admission and Enrollment Department.

The activity sought to bring the educational establishments of the Coquimbo Region closer to the University of La Serena, through its counselors and directors. In this regard, the head of the Admission and Enrollment Department, Mg. Gonzalo Honores commented that “the objective of the activity was to inform and have mutual learning, we are in difficult times at the country level and full of changes, some forced, but we have to take them as opportunities, we want to resume the link with educational establishments , since it is part of our social responsibility as a university to do so.”

Likewise, the online seminar was attended by high university authorities, in addition to involving the School Directors: Mg. Paola Denmark, Psychology; Dr. Andrea Vega, from Education, and Lic. Elvis Campos, from Pedagogy in Humanities, with the different counselors present, through the talk: “Profile of the new ULS student - a look from the School Directors” , where they presented a look at the characteristics of future ULS students, graduation profile and the results of the diagnoses and placement tests carried out on first-year students.

Francesca Pizarro, counselor at the Edmundo Vial Cárdena School in the Vicuña commune, thanked the information provided “in this space about the new admission test to tertiary education. In addition, she added information regarding the student's profile and shared data from the diagnoses applied by the institution, which showed us the characteristics of how our students enter, valuable information that we can address and thus generate early alerts.

The activity also included the participation of the PACE ULS Program, represented by Álvaro Olivares, Ped's tutor. in Spanish and Philosophy and, on behalf of APRENDE ULS, Carol Vargas, Architecture tutor, who made known the importance of supporting the student during the process prior to making a vocational decision and of university support. In this sense, Álvaro Olivares highlighted this instance as “an enriching experience, both academic and personal. I was able to tell my experience as a student and as a tutor of the PACE ULS program, since I consider that it is always relevant to listen to the students on this long path to becoming professionals.”

The Seminar “Admission Challenges 2021” was the first instance in 2020 organized by the ULS Teaching Directorate; However, work is already underway on new instances and meetings, favoring the delivery of information to establishments in the region.

Written by Daniela Cabrera, DIDOC ULS and Daniel Aguayo, APRENDE ULS and PACE ULS