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Universidad de Santiago’s new Law School draws high interest at Universities’ Fair

Universidad de Santiago’s new Law School draws high interest at Universities’ Fair

  • The 14th version of the SIAD Universities’ Fair, the most important professional and vocational guidance fair for high school students in the country, was successfully held last week.

 

 

Between October 05th and 07th, the SIAD 2016 Universities’ Fair was held at the Estación Mapocho Cultural Center. The activity gathered more than 48 thousand high school students and Universidad de Santiago de Chile was one of the institutions promoting its educational programs in the activity.

More than the 80% of the Chilean higher education institutions and some foreign institutions participated in this version of the fair, considered as the most important professional and vocational guidance and vocational services fair in the country, occasion in which Universidad de Santiago de Chile presented, for the first time, its new Law Program that will be offered as from 2017.

Dr Patricia Pallavicini Magnere, Academic Vice President of Universidad de Santiago, says that the fair offers the advantage of gathering together most of the higher education institutions in the country.

“In this way, students are able to learn in the same place about different institutions, programs, curricula, study plans and the focus of each program. With this information, they can compare different options and make informed decisions,” she says.

New Law School

Pallavicini also highlights the inclusion of the Law Program among Universidad de Santiago’s educational offer.

“We be able to offer this program for the first time in 2017. The admission will be mostly via PSU test and also through a special admission process. We expect to have 80 students enrolled in the program,” she says. 

Likewise, she says that students who already entered the Bachelor’s program will also have the possibility of applying for a slot in the Law program.

During the fair, the students showed high interest for this new Law School. They also requested information about other programs, like Medicine, Mathematical Engineering, Industrial Civil Engineering, Pedagogy, Translation and other programs in the field of Humanities.

Admission Process 2017

Universidad de Santiago will begin its 2017 Admission Process on October 14th this year. “We will inform about it through the media. This process is a joint and continuous work between the Academic Vice Presidency’s Admission Department and the different faculties,” Dr Pallavicini says.

Universidad de Santiago’s Admission Fair is scheduled for December 26th, 27th and 28th this year.

Translated by Marcela Contreras

60% of the 3,900 new students at Universidad de Santiago are benefited from tuition-free education

60% of the 3,900 new students at Universidad de Santiago are benefited from tuition-free education

  • Students with unemployed parents, students from low income households, single mothers or students who have to work to support their families: this is the situation of more than 2,300 youngsters who entered Universidad de Santiago this year, thanks to the tuition-free education program enacted by the Government. All of them have something in common: they had lost all hope of pursuing higher education.

 

This important benefit bridges gaps and opens new paths to inclusion and promotes equity and social mobility, confirming that education is a right and not a consumer good.

“As a mother, I thought I had to quit my future, because you cannot afford a degree when you are paid the minimum wage. My parents could not help me either. This is as a godsend, because the possibility of studying at no cost was just a beautiful aspiration,” Eillene Zúñiga, a student at the Computing and Informatics Engineering program, said.

“I come from another university and this is an incentive to complete my program. I am being provided with the tools I require to focus on studying,” Gustavo Hurtado, a student at the Informatics Civil Engineering program, said.

“It is important to us to have access to tuition-free education, without grants or complementary loans, because you start feeling that education- although the benefit is still  for some students- is for us, that it is not a business for which we have to pay millions,” Catalina Yáñez, another student at the Informatics Civil Engineering program, said.

For his part, Alejandro Marín says that his father is currently unemployed, so he could not think of any possibility of entering the university. “This will help me to focus on studying and my only goal will be to complete the Publicity program,” he said.

Finally, Alejandra Gallardo’s case is not different from the ones above. She is the first person of her family to enter higher education. “I am very happy. I have never thought of it, as my mother works at a fruit and vegetable market. She considers attending the Building Technology program a “big challenge”.

Thanks to the tuition-free education program enacted by the Government, they have now the possibility of pursuing higher education.

 

Translated by Marcela Contreras

Participants in Latin American conference valued the positive experience of Propedéutico programs in Chile

Participants in Latin American conference valued the positive experience of Propedéutico programs in Chile

  • As the Executive Director of the Propedéutico Program of Universidad de Santiago and on behalf of academics from five national higher education institutions with inclusion experiences, professor Lorna Figueroa took part in the 4th Latin-American Conference on Higher Education Dropout (Medellín, Colombia), presenting an article that collects the experiences of universities that have successfully implemented the Propedéutico program, like Universidad de Santiago, among others.

 


 The initiatives driven by Universidad de Santiago to promote inclusion and equity in the access to higher education have been highly valued both in Chile and abroad. Recently, in Colombia, an article on the experience of Propedéutico programs in our country was awarded recognition. This project has been supported from the beginning by our state and public University.


The work called “Programas Propedéuticos: equidad e inclusión en la vida universitaria” (Propedéutico Programs: Equity and Inclusion at University Life) was written by professors of Universidad de Antofagasta, Universidad de Viña del Mar, Universidad de Valparaíso and Universidad de Santiago and it was presented in the context of the 4th Latin-American Conference on Higher Education Dropout, CLABES, organized by Universidad de Antioquia and held in October 22nd, 23rd and 24th, in Medellín.

The paper was recognized as one of the best three articles out of the 170 ones submitted for the conference and was presented by Lorna Figueroa, professor at the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science and consultant to the Social Responsibility Program of Universidad de Santiago. She highlighted “the high interest of foreign institutions in getting more information about thePropedéutico programs in Chile.”

“The participants - mainly academics from Colombia – crowded the hall and showed themselves very interested in getting familiar with the Propedéutico experience in the five universities involved in writing the article. Once the presentation was finished, many professors and representatives of foreign universities approached me to exchange contact information and to invite us to present our project in different universities,” Lorna Figueroa said.

Professor Figueroa said that “having shared with colleagues from different educational realities was very useful for them and for me, in the quality of representative of the universities involved in writing this paper.”

Finally, professor Figueroa said that some foreign institutions expressed their interest in participating in the Jornadas Internacionales sobre Responsabilidad Social Universitaria (University’s Social Responsibility International Conference) that will be held at Universidad de Santiago, in January 14th and 15th, 2015.

For his part, the Director the Propedéutico program of our University, professor Máximo González, who was also part of the team that wrote the article presented in Colombia, said that the Propedéuticoinclusion experience in Chile has also been recently presented in countries like Mexico and Germany.

“We are very proud that this initiative is being presented abroad. This fact, together with the implementation of the PACE program as a public policy inspired by the Propedéutico program that Universidad de Santiago started in 2007, are definite steps to continue showing that this initiative is positive, is a big contribution and can be replicated in many other educational institutions,” Máximo González said.


Translated by Marcela Contreras

Universidad de Santiago’s new Law School draws high interest at Universities’ Fair

Universidad de Santiago’s new Law School draws high interest at Universities’ Fair

  • The 14th version of the SIAD Universities’ Fair, the most important professional and vocational guidance fair for high school students in the country, was successfully held last week.

 

 

Between October 05th and 07th, the SIAD 2016 Universities’ Fair was held at the Estación Mapocho Cultural Center. The activity gathered more than 48 thousand high school students and Universidad de Santiago de Chile was one of the institutions promoting its educational programs in the activity.

More than the 80% of the Chilean higher education institutions and some foreign institutions participated in this version of the fair, considered as the most important professional and vocational guidance and vocational services fair in the country, occasion in which Universidad de Santiago de Chile presented, for the first time, its new Law Program that will be offered as from 2017.

Dr Patricia Pallavicini Magnere, Academic Vice President of Universidad de Santiago, says that the fair offers the advantage of gathering together most of the higher education institutions in the country.

“In this way, students are able to learn in the same place about different institutions, programs, curricula, study plans and the focus of each program. With this information, they can compare different options and make informed decisions,” she says.

New Law School

Pallavicini also highlights the inclusion of the Law Program among Universidad de Santiago’s educational offer.

“We be able to offer this program for the first time in 2017. The admission will be mostly via PSU test and also through a special admission process. We expect to have 80 students enrolled in the program,” she says. 

Likewise, she says that students who already entered the Bachelor’s program will also have the possibility of applying for a slot in the Law program.

During the fair, the students showed high interest for this new Law School. They also requested information about other programs, like Medicine, Mathematical Engineering, Industrial Civil Engineering, Pedagogy, Translation and other programs in the field of Humanities.

Admission Process 2017

Universidad de Santiago will begin its 2017 Admission Process on October 14th this year. “We will inform about it through the media. This process is a joint and continuous work between the Academic Vice Presidency’s Admission Department and the different faculties,” Dr Pallavicini says.

Universidad de Santiago’s Admission Fair is scheduled for December 26th, 27th and 28th this year.

Translated by Marcela Contreras

60% of the 3,900 new students at Universidad de Santiago are benefited from tuition-free education

60% of the 3,900 new students at Universidad de Santiago are benefited from tuition-free education

  • Students with unemployed parents, students from low income households, single mothers or students who have to work to support their families: this is the situation of more than 2,300 youngsters who entered Universidad de Santiago this year, thanks to the tuition-free education program enacted by the Government. All of them have something in common: they had lost all hope of pursuing higher education.

 

This important benefit bridges gaps and opens new paths to inclusion and promotes equity and social mobility, confirming that education is a right and not a consumer good.

“As a mother, I thought I had to quit my future, because you cannot afford a degree when you are paid the minimum wage. My parents could not help me either. This is as a godsend, because the possibility of studying at no cost was just a beautiful aspiration,” Eillene Zúñiga, a student at the Computing and Informatics Engineering program, said.

“I come from another university and this is an incentive to complete my program. I am being provided with the tools I require to focus on studying,” Gustavo Hurtado, a student at the Informatics Civil Engineering program, said.

“It is important to us to have access to tuition-free education, without grants or complementary loans, because you start feeling that education- although the benefit is still  for some students- is for us, that it is not a business for which we have to pay millions,” Catalina Yáñez, another student at the Informatics Civil Engineering program, said.

For his part, Alejandro Marín says that his father is currently unemployed, so he could not think of any possibility of entering the university. “This will help me to focus on studying and my only goal will be to complete the Publicity program,” he said.

Finally, Alejandra Gallardo’s case is not different from the ones above. She is the first person of her family to enter higher education. “I am very happy. I have never thought of it, as my mother works at a fruit and vegetable market. She considers attending the Building Technology program a “big challenge”.

Thanks to the tuition-free education program enacted by the Government, they have now the possibility of pursuing higher education.

 

Translated by Marcela Contreras

Participants in Latin American conference valued the positive experience of Propedéutico programs in Chile

Participants in Latin American conference valued the positive experience of Propedéutico programs in Chile

  • As the Executive Director of the Propedéutico Program of Universidad de Santiago and on behalf of academics from five national higher education institutions with inclusion experiences, professor Lorna Figueroa took part in the 4th Latin-American Conference on Higher Education Dropout (Medellín, Colombia), presenting an article that collects the experiences of universities that have successfully implemented the Propedéutico program, like Universidad de Santiago, among others.

 


 The initiatives driven by Universidad de Santiago to promote inclusion and equity in the access to higher education have been highly valued both in Chile and abroad. Recently, in Colombia, an article on the experience of Propedéutico programs in our country was awarded recognition. This project has been supported from the beginning by our state and public University.


The work called “Programas Propedéuticos: equidad e inclusión en la vida universitaria” (Propedéutico Programs: Equity and Inclusion at University Life) was written by professors of Universidad de Antofagasta, Universidad de Viña del Mar, Universidad de Valparaíso and Universidad de Santiago and it was presented in the context of the 4th Latin-American Conference on Higher Education Dropout, CLABES, organized by Universidad de Antioquia and held in October 22nd, 23rd and 24th, in Medellín.

The paper was recognized as one of the best three articles out of the 170 ones submitted for the conference and was presented by Lorna Figueroa, professor at the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science and consultant to the Social Responsibility Program of Universidad de Santiago. She highlighted “the high interest of foreign institutions in getting more information about thePropedéutico programs in Chile.”

“The participants - mainly academics from Colombia – crowded the hall and showed themselves very interested in getting familiar with the Propedéutico experience in the five universities involved in writing the article. Once the presentation was finished, many professors and representatives of foreign universities approached me to exchange contact information and to invite us to present our project in different universities,” Lorna Figueroa said.

Professor Figueroa said that “having shared with colleagues from different educational realities was very useful for them and for me, in the quality of representative of the universities involved in writing this paper.”

Finally, professor Figueroa said that some foreign institutions expressed their interest in participating in the Jornadas Internacionales sobre Responsabilidad Social Universitaria (University’s Social Responsibility International Conference) that will be held at Universidad de Santiago, in January 14th and 15th, 2015.

For his part, the Director the Propedéutico program of our University, professor Máximo González, who was also part of the team that wrote the article presented in Colombia, said that the Propedéuticoinclusion experience in Chile has also been recently presented in countries like Mexico and Germany.

“We are very proud that this initiative is being presented abroad. This fact, together with the implementation of the PACE program as a public policy inspired by the Propedéutico program that Universidad de Santiago started in 2007, are definite steps to continue showing that this initiative is positive, is a big contribution and can be replicated in many other educational institutions,” Máximo González said.


Translated by Marcela Contreras

60% of the 3,900 new students at Universidad de Santiago are benefited from tuition-free education

60% of the 3,900 new students at Universidad de Santiago are benefited from tuition-free education

  • Students with unemployed parents, students from low income households, single mothers or students who have to work to support their families: this is the situation of more than 2,300 youngsters who entered Universidad de Santiago this year, thanks to the tuition-free education program enacted by the Government. All of them have something in common: they had lost all hope of pursuing higher education.

 

This important benefit bridges gaps and opens new paths to inclusion and promotes equity and social mobility, confirming that education is a right and not a consumer good.

“As a mother, I thought I had to quit my future, because you cannot afford a degree when you are paid the minimum wage. My parents could not help me either. This is as a godsend, because the possibility of studying at no cost was just a beautiful aspiration,” Eillene Zúñiga, a student at the Computing and Informatics Engineering program, said.

“I come from another university and this is an incentive to complete my program. I am being provided with the tools I require to focus on studying,” Gustavo Hurtado, a student at the Informatics Civil Engineering program, said.

“It is important to us to have access to tuition-free education, without grants or complementary loans, because you start feeling that education- although the benefit is still  for some students- is for us, that it is not a business for which we have to pay millions,” Catalina Yáñez, another student at the Informatics Civil Engineering program, said.

For his part, Alejandro Marín says that his father is currently unemployed, so he could not think of any possibility of entering the university. “This will help me to focus on studying and my only goal will be to complete the Publicity program,” he said.

Finally, Alejandra Gallardo’s case is not different from the ones above. She is the first person of her family to enter higher education. “I am very happy. I have never thought of it, as my mother works at a fruit and vegetable market. She considers attending the Building Technology program a “big challenge”.

Thanks to the tuition-free education program enacted by the Government, they have now the possibility of pursuing higher education.

 

Translated by Marcela Contreras

Participants in Latin American conference valued the positive experience of Propedéutico programs in Chile

Participants in Latin American conference valued the positive experience of Propedéutico programs in Chile

  • As the Executive Director of the Propedéutico Program of Universidad de Santiago and on behalf of academics from five national higher education institutions with inclusion experiences, professor Lorna Figueroa took part in the 4th Latin-American Conference on Higher Education Dropout (Medellín, Colombia), presenting an article that collects the experiences of universities that have successfully implemented the Propedéutico program, like Universidad de Santiago, among others.

 


 The initiatives driven by Universidad de Santiago to promote inclusion and equity in the access to higher education have been highly valued both in Chile and abroad. Recently, in Colombia, an article on the experience of Propedéutico programs in our country was awarded recognition. This project has been supported from the beginning by our state and public University.


The work called “Programas Propedéuticos: equidad e inclusión en la vida universitaria” (Propedéutico Programs: Equity and Inclusion at University Life) was written by professors of Universidad de Antofagasta, Universidad de Viña del Mar, Universidad de Valparaíso and Universidad de Santiago and it was presented in the context of the 4th Latin-American Conference on Higher Education Dropout, CLABES, organized by Universidad de Antioquia and held in October 22nd, 23rd and 24th, in Medellín.

The paper was recognized as one of the best three articles out of the 170 ones submitted for the conference and was presented by Lorna Figueroa, professor at the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science and consultant to the Social Responsibility Program of Universidad de Santiago. She highlighted “the high interest of foreign institutions in getting more information about thePropedéutico programs in Chile.”

“The participants - mainly academics from Colombia – crowded the hall and showed themselves very interested in getting familiar with the Propedéutico experience in the five universities involved in writing the article. Once the presentation was finished, many professors and representatives of foreign universities approached me to exchange contact information and to invite us to present our project in different universities,” Lorna Figueroa said.

Professor Figueroa said that “having shared with colleagues from different educational realities was very useful for them and for me, in the quality of representative of the universities involved in writing this paper.”

Finally, professor Figueroa said that some foreign institutions expressed their interest in participating in the Jornadas Internacionales sobre Responsabilidad Social Universitaria (University’s Social Responsibility International Conference) that will be held at Universidad de Santiago, in January 14th and 15th, 2015.

For his part, the Director the Propedéutico program of our University, professor Máximo González, who was also part of the team that wrote the article presented in Colombia, said that the Propedéuticoinclusion experience in Chile has also been recently presented in countries like Mexico and Germany.

“We are very proud that this initiative is being presented abroad. This fact, together with the implementation of the PACE program as a public policy inspired by the Propedéutico program that Universidad de Santiago started in 2007, are definite steps to continue showing that this initiative is positive, is a big contribution and can be replicated in many other educational institutions,” Máximo González said.


Translated by Marcela Contreras
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