• Forty vacancies are offered by this State University. The applicants will integrate with the academic staff of various academic units. "They must have publications, and highly productive projects" Juan Manuel Zolezzi, president of the University, said.

The application starts on December 3 and finishes on December 28. The aim is to fill forty vacancies for various careers in the different Faculties of the Institution. The objective is to attract the best graduate academics and complete the renewal of the academic staff.

 Those selected should teach at the undergraduate and graduate levels, participate in research projects and technical assistance. In addition, they must participate in the University management and contribute to the continuous teaching improvement processes, careers accreditation, and syllabus revision, among others.

 This is stated in the rules of the application call which has been the fourth call made in the last six years (two massive and two in the Department of Education). According to the president of the U. Santiago, "these calls are part of the policies of this presidency.  That’s why we encouraged a retirement incentive law and followed the necessary steps so that this renewal could be produced."

 The highest authority of the University, explained that the academic application call was scheduled to take place at this time. "We proposed a plan that included several stages: academic restructuring, organizational restructuring of the management team, a restructuring of the academic organic system – a discussion that we’ll begin with the Academic Council- and the recruitment of academics with doctoral degrees, publications, and highly productive projects.”

 The submission process ends on December 28, at 5:00 p.m, “and the new teachers can start working at the University in March," Zolezzi explained. 

Impact on quality

The U. Santiago president said he was confident that this faculty renewal will have a significant impact on institutional accreditation, because it has already been well regarded by peer evaluation people, he remarked.

Furthermore, it will impact fundamentally on the students’ perception. "They see that the U. Santiago is proposing something different to giving cars, chocolates or I Pads. We offer them the certainty of improving our faculty, in quantity and quality,” the authority said.

Finally, president Zolezzi assured that the fact of having a good faculty is the solution to the problem of quality in higher education. “I have always had this conviction and that’s why this presidency has struggled for achieving this improvement."

The academic application call will convoke national and foreign doctors and the rules can be found in www.udesantiago.cl.