In an interview to the informative Unicauca Al Día Radio, the Academic Vice-rector of Alma Mater, Luis Guillermo Jaramillo Echeverri, added that the effort that students, teachers and workers in general of the University of Cauca are making to carry out this offer is highly commendable and curricular in the midst of the circumstances that the city, the region and the country are experiencing.

“It is a positive balance, in the sense of how the students, the professors, and the entire university, administrative, and other communities have responded to these times: first make an offer of between one and two courses per program in each one of the different Academic Units, this made it possible for students to enroll, about 12,600 students: 5,450 enrolled in one course and 7,150 enrolled in two courses.” In this way, the Academic Vice-Rector of the University of Cauca, Luis Guillermo Jaramillo Echeverri, presents the balance of the inter-semester courses that are carried out virtually.

The above is in addition to a training process carried out by the Center for Quality Management and Institutional Accreditation of nearly 800 teachers, which has allowed us to have some stability in the orientation of these courses in person, assisted by Tics. , basically in the face of this process of uncertainty in a pandemic that has strongly hit the world and especially this country.

"At this time we must also be aware and recognize that although it is true that about 12,600 students enrolled, there is a percentage of about 27% who have not been able to enroll due to different connectivity situations, difficult to access, being in their houses perhaps with a certain economic precariousness and at the same time due to certain personal problems, have not been able to enroll in this transitional time of inter-semester courses ”, explains Professor Luis Guillermo Jaramillo Echeverri

In this sense, the Academic Council with a broad participation of all classes, especially the student body, has managed to guarantee that these students who have not been able to enroll have the same courses by 2021, with the same possibilities when taking a a kind of gradual return awaiting how this process of the pandemic is evolving, but also the University must not only guarantee, because it is doing so, that these same courses are oriented, that students can continue with their training process; Rather, it is looking at options to strengthen the infrastructure in the sense of expanding its broadband, connectivity, biosafety protocols that are required, and the way in which these types of activities can be offered, guaranteeing the equity and quality of higher education.

Regarding the pedagogical challenges, the University Director assumes that, in a state of vulnerability, it is when the capacity of human beings that we are is demonstrated. “Many teachers did not expect to face these kinds of challenges in the sense of having developed their face-to-face classes for a long time, but it is very gratifying to see how teachers, even of a certain age, have taken on the challenge of participating in these meetings that put them in the capacity for new learning and in modes of communicative relationship that they did not expect; but also the students in the sense of being able to have a different way of relationship from the one they have been developing at the University, which has allowed us to understand that the creativity of the human being is overflowing ”, points out the Academic Vice-Chancellor.

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Academic Vice-rectory: viceacad@unicauca.edu.co