UIS
Election of Alumni Representatives
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about the
Elections 2023 - 2025
The following are the government proposals of the candidates who nominated their names to assume the positions of Alumni Representatives to the UIS Superior Council 2023 – 2025.
Remember that voting will take place via the Internet on Wednesday, January 18 from 4:00 p.m. until Thursday, January 19 until 4:00 in the afternoon. At around 4:06 p.m., on January 19, the name of the new Alumni Representative to the UIS Superior Council.
Election of Alumni Representatives
UIS Superior Council 2023 - 2025
Mario A.
BETANCUR
Jairo A.
Torres
Edwin
Vargas
Édgar
Ramírez
Mario H.
Torres
Daniel F.
Duarte
Leilyn Y.
Goméz
Leonardo
Quiroga
MANAGEMENT
Plan
- To create communication channels so that graduates can contact their representative directly (institutional mail, social networks), in order to:
- To support graduates with the procedures required by the University.
- To receive proposals to improve the relationship between the UIS and its alumni.
- To provide support to establish new agreements with national and international companies and institutions of higher education where UIS graduates are present.
- To update the University’s alumni policy, adjusting it to the reality of the institution and the country, since the current policy was issued in 2008. Within this update, it is proposed that the Alumni Representative to the Superior Council should have a maximum duration of 2 consecutive terms (4 years).
- To encourage graduates to apply for the “Outstanding Graduate” program.
- To create coworking spaces for graduates in the different branches of the University, an idea that I am promoting from ASEDUIS together with the Alumni Office.
- To work on behalf of the different alumni associations in our country. Alma Mater.
- To propose improvements to the institutional donation collection program.
- To support the Internationalization process of the University in order to:
- To implement an action plan to translate into English the Syllabus of the careers offered by the University, which may be required by students and/or graduates who wish to study abroad, thus complementing the agreement 016 of 2021 of the Superior Council where it was agreed to issue certificates in English if requested.
- To promote the international accreditation of the University’s undergraduate academic programs.
- To suggest the designation of a professor in charge of internationalization for each academic program to work in coordination with the external relations office and strengthen the agreements of each academic program.
- The creation of an institutional web page to publish the UIS community’s undertakings, a task we are already working on at ASEDUIS.
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- To create mechanisms for the direct participation of alumni to strengthen the academic programs of the UIS through:
- The creation of alumni committees to evaluate market needs in order to propose elective courses that meet the requirements of research and the business sector.
- The creation of a bank of graduates willing to support the co-direction or grading of degree projects.
- To support the strengthening of research and entrepreneurship in the regional headquarters through the research groups of the research groups of the central headquarters.
- To assist in the consolidation of new specializations in the different faculties of the University, thus contributing to the development of our region and the country.
- To promote from the Superior Council the creation of chairs, electives and/or diploma courses in soft skills for the entire UIS community.
- To work towards the fulfillment of the Institutional Development Plan 2019 – 2030.
Civil Engineer specialized in Project Management who turned his initiative of planning international academic trips into an innovative venture and since 2012 is CEO of Ingeviajes SAS “Especialistas en Turismo Pedagógico”. He was the promoter of the first international technical visits with Engineering: Civil, Industrial, Chemical and Metallurgical of the UIS.
With his enterprise, he has carried out multiple international academic missions in which students, professors and professionals from different higher education institutions in Colombia have participated. The planning, organization and execution of these missions has allowed him to establish contacts in the academic and productive sector, through which he has learned about the academic and industrial challenges that the professionals of today and tomorrow must face.
Thanks to his constant interest in her Alma Mater, in 2020 he led the initiative “UNA VAKI POR LA UIS” (A VAKI FOR UIS) where she managed to pay 464 UIS students’ tuition fees with the support of more than 1100 people, raising more than 100 million pesos.
Jairo A.
Torres
Debemos creer en nuestros egresados
MANAGEMENT
Plan
For 15 years I have been linked to the Universidad Industrial de Santander and in those years I toured the university as a student training as a PHYSICIAN. I have worked as a professor in the Geology program and in the Master’s program in Geophysics of the School of Physics. I directed and evaluated undergraduate projects in research, business practice and master’s thesis.
I participated as a Neoprofessional in an agreement between the Vice-Rectory of Research and the Colombian Petroleum Institute, I was also part of a research project between UIS, Unipamplona, ITEM and Udea for Colciencias and Ecopetrol as a consultant in the CPS group of the School of Electronic Engineering.
I know and have been in different stages during my tenure at the UIS, so as a representative of the alumni I propose:
- To seek mechanisms to ensure that our UIS professionals have priority in the process of teaching positions.
- Our UIS alumni enter and strengthen our postgraduate programs by proposing new financing mechanisms and discounts within our alma mater.
- To review and promote new strategies with companies from different sectors of the industry through new cooperation agreements and alliances, and that they see in our graduates high quality talent with high capabilities.
- To guarantee the transparency of all the processes of our institution in teaching, welfare, research and extension.
- To seek to strengthen our programs and campaigns against all types of violence and the defense of human rights.
MANAGEMENT
Plan
Our UIS. This proposal was born from listening to all the strata of the university community that today recognize, with a sense of belonging and critical thinking, that our University has advanced in great aspects, but also highlight that we have a high margin for improvement in some essential aspects of university life. And this is the motivation for presenting a collective candidacy, which gathers the vision of the university and higher education of students, alumni, professors, associations, unions and regions. A vision of an inclusive, participatory, democratic and social university that prioritizes human resources and makes them the key factor in transforming our society.
This time we want our ideas to reach the highest governing body of the University where we will try, based on arguments and reasons, to get others to join our cause.
Our proposals and strategies are:
- To strengthen the graduate-University relationship: The strategies to be implemented are:
- Strengthening the Alumni Office and its programs with a larger budget and assigned personnel.obusteciendo oficina de Egresados y sus programas con mayor presupuesto y personal asignado.
- Offering courses in soft skills and complementary knowledge.
- Institutional discount for graduate programs.
- To promote entrepreneurship and innovation:
- Promoting student entrepreneurship through the institutionalization of a space with the necessary conditions for the sale of products.
- Promotion of spin-off companies.
- Business incubators.
- Business Consulting.
- UIS contracting processes limited to MSMEs.
- Institutional agreements with entities that provide resources.
- Business rounds with the UIS and its contractors.
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- To promote the hiring of recent graduates between 18 and 28 years of age:
- Incentives for outstanding graduates in academia, culture and sports.
- Jobs with no experience requirement.
- To propose a reform to the regulations for professors:
- Including the recognition of other activities such as research, extension, and direction of artistic groups.
- Eliminating payment only for “hours actually taught” and recognizing other activities.
- including criteria for job stability.
- Minimum contract for the duration of the semester (including habilitation period) and 2 additional weeks.
- Teaching scale for tutors.
- Market study to determine the basic value per hour.
- To promote the expansion of the administrative staff:
- To convert temporary jobs into career civil service jobs.
- Reinforced labor stability.
- Merit and equality as criteria.
- Public tenders of merit for vacant positions.
- Hybrid work mode.
- To consolidate regionalization and distance and virtual education programs:
- Approval of the regionalization policy.
- Reform of Ipred’s structure and Regional Headquarters.
- Regional Campuses with budget and autonomy.
- Complete programs in the Campus in hybrid mode.
- Research and extension according to the needs of the region.
- Artistic groups and sports teams from recognized Regional Campuses.
- Adequate infrastructure.
- Professors and administrative staff for Campus and distance and virtual programs..
- Change in the financing model for distance and virtual programs.
- Admission criteria at the Regional Campuses different from the introductory level, with a focus on inclusion.
- To promote the Bienestar Universitario policy:
- Well-being for all.
- Focus on mental health, gender and healthy lifestyle habits.
- Programs at all campuses of the university.
- Student gym.
- Expansion of coverage with sufficient resources.
- Animal welfare.
- To manage extended Superior Councils for democratic discussions:
- Participatory sessions at all Campuses with guests from the community.
- Reform of Bylaws and Regulations.
- To promote training programs for professors of all modalities:
- Postgraduate degree with emphasis on pedagogy and inclusion.
- Sign language courses.
- Use of resources from the Quality Promotion Plans.
- Actively participate in the national government’s agenda for higher education:
- Reform of Law 30.
- University democracy.
- Higher education vision.
- To strengthen the monitoring and control of university contracting:
- It allows for more detailed consultation in the Citizen Oversight module.
- To define the obligatory nature of audits in public bidding processes.
- Promotion of citizen oversight.
- Public accountability on contracting processes.
MANAGEMENT
Plan
My proposal is based on being able to use the fifteen functions of the superior council to ensure that the UIS continues to be the best university in the region and meets the expectations of its environment.
For this purpose, the following lines of action have been defined in order to make it easier to understand the context.
- Support for the infrastructure program that is being developed at the UIS Campus, “Ecosystem for education”; giving special priority to the construction of the building for the faculty of health; and analyze whether the proposal to have its own IPS is advisable and possible. Additionally, I think that an inventory should be made of the laboratories that are required to achieve professional excellence and also to provide services to the region. The infrastructure of the Regional Campuses should be inventoried and reviewed, in order to adapt it to the careers required in these specific regions. At this point, it should also be reviewed if more regional offices are required, for example in Cimitarra, which according to the opinion of professionals in this region, there is enough personnel to create a new Campus there.
- To promote research in the different areas of UIS knowledge, the difference between a good technical college and the university is research; in addition, the participation of the UIS should be offered with the research required by the region and finally bring to the UIS the research carried out by the different guilds of the region.
- Considering the new vision of the country, it is urgent to review the programs that are developed in the different Campuses, these should provide the opportunity for students to prepare themselves to be an integral person in their region, that is, to serve their fellow citizens and that they can develop as a happy person who enjoys their environment and with that fullness can bring progress to their environment without having to think about moving to fulfill their life proposal; so that these programs will have to be reviewed and changed if necessary to meet these new requirements and thus meet the regional need.
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- Regarding the programs currently being developed at UIS, I suggest that a study be conducted to identify ongoing projects in the region, the different industrial developments, in order to identify priority programs and that these have the greatest support from our Alma Mater and likewise the academic programs that are not required as they are structured, make a reengineering and adapt them to the needs of the region and the country.
- To reinforce the institutional policy towards the alumni with a verifiable feedback, which allows to take their experiences to the formation of the new professional and to be trained as old professionals in new technologies. This interaction with the alumni must be so deep, constant and evaluable, so that the results are transformed or contribute to curricular innovations that favor the achievements of the learning outcome of UIS students. On the other hand this policy of allowing the alumni to be permanently trained and invited to research new trends and technological developments, to always have an updated ambassador. Strengthen the strategic alliance between the UIS and the Association of alumni Aseduis, in the different campuses to serve as a channel to develop this vision with the alumni and thus have it permanently linked and with a high sense of belonging.
- To be the guarantor of the neatness of the management of the investment resources available to the UIS, being the overseer of the different contracts that are developed in our Alma Mater, so that every peso that the UIS has is invested according to the initial approval, for which management reports must be implemented where the Rector reports the detailed development of each contract that is being executed at UIS.
- As an alumni sure that the product of our University is excellent, I will do my best so that our UIS alumni entrepreneurs participate in the development of the ecosystem for education, as builders and as interveners, as advisors, so that with the sense of belonging that encourages us, we demand the best of our UIS.
MANAGEMENT
Plan
At UIS: Civil Engineer 1977; Professor for 8 years at the School of Civil Engineering Director of Contracting and Investment Projects for 8 years..
Other studies: Master’s degree at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, United States; specialization in Sanitary Engineering, Rome, Italy; specialization in Environmental Engineering at the University of Berkeley, California; Diploma in University Management at UIS.
Distinctions: Cum Laude UIS; FulBright Scholar; Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Scholarship; Italian Government Scholarship; Honorary Distinction in 2003 and 2022 by the Santandereana Society of Engineers; Motion of Appreciation UIS; Motion of Appreciation Acueducto de Bucaramanga.
Other positions: Planning and Systems Manager, Acueducto de Bucaramanga. Director of the Social Action Plan of Santander. Advisor to Corpes Centro-Oriente. Director of Aqueducts and Sewerage of Córdoba. Technical Director of 5T Firm.
My
Commitments
- I will continue to support the public university and free tuition for all strata, as well as the welfare of all UIS strata and graduate curricula.
- I will continue with the linkage of alumni for the use of the in-person and virtual library and databases, in which there are currently more than 5,000 alumni enrolled. Likewise, I will continue with the use of platforms for learning different languages free of charge.
- I will be attentive to the development of infrastructure and laboratory equipment projects, especially those related to the School of Health building.
I will support research projects and the creation of research seedbeds, especially those that promote the improvement of the quality of life in our region.
We will continue to support the labor stability of both administrative employees and professors, many of whom are UIS alumni and have contributed significantly to the development of the University.
You are invited to participate actively with your vote of confidence with the assurance that I will continue to represent you with dignity.
MANAGEMENT
Plan
UIS of us. This proposal was born from listening to all the strata of the university community that today recognize, with a sense of belonging and critical thinking, that our University has advanced in great aspects, but also highlight that we have a high margin for improvement in some essential aspects of university life.
And this is the motivation to present a collective candidacy, which gathers the vision of university and higher education of students, alumni, professors, associations, unions and regions. A vision of an inclusive, participatory, democratic and social university that prioritizes human resources and makes them the key factor in transforming our society.
This time we want our ideas to reach the highest governing body of the University where we will try, based on arguments and reasons, to get others to join our cause.
Our proposals and strategies are:
- To strengthen the alumni-University relationship: The strategies to be implemented are:
- Strengthening the Alumnni Office and its programs with a larger budget and assigned personnel.
- Offering courses in soft skills and complementary knowledge.
- Institutional discount for graduate programs.
- Promote entrepreneurship and innovation:
- To promote student entrepreneurship through the institutionalization of a space with the necessary conditions for the sale of products.
- Promotion of spin-off companies.
- Business incubators.
- Business Consulting.
- UIS contracting processes limited to MSMEs.
- Institutional agreements with entities that provide resources.
- Business rounds with the UIS and its contractors.
Read more
- To promote the hiring of recent alumni between 18 and 28 years of age:
- Encouragement for outstanding alumni in academia, culture and sports.
- Jobs with no experience requirement.
- Propose a reform to the professor’s Bylaws and Regulations:
- To include recognition of other activities such as research, extension, and direction of artistic groups.
- To eliminate payment only for “hours actually taught” and to recognize other activities.
- To include criteria for job stability.
- Minimum contract for the duration of the semester (including habilitation period) and 2 additional weeks.
- Professor’s scale for tutoring.
- Market study to determine the basic value per hour.
- To promote the expansion of the administrative staff:
- To convert temporary jobs to public career jobs. Reinforced job stability.
- Merit and equality as criteria.
- Public tenders of merit for vacant positions.
- Hybrid work mode.
- To consolidate regionalization and distance and virtual education programs:
- Approval of the regionalization policy.
- Reform of Ipred’s structure and Regional Campuses.
- Regional Campuses with budget and autonomy.
- Complete programs in the Campus in hybrid mode.
- Research and extension according to the needs of the region.
- Artistic groups and sports teams from recognized Regional Campuses.
- Adequate infrastructure.
- Professors and administrative staff for Campus and distance and virtual programs.
- Change in the financing model for distance and virtual programs.
- Admission criteria at the Regional Campuses different from the introductory level, with a focus on inclusion.
- To promote the Bienestar Universitario policy:
- Well-being for all.
- Focus on mental health, gender and healthy lifestyle habits.
- Programs at all campuses of the university.
- Student gym.
- Expansion of coverage with sufficient resources.
- Animal welfare.
- To manage extended Superior Councils for democratic discussions.
- Participatory sessions at all Campuses with guests from the community.
- Reform of Bylaws and Regulations.
- Promote training programs for professors of all modalities.
- Postgraduate degree with emphasis on pedagogy and inclusion.
- Sign language courses.
- Use of resources from the Quality Promotion Plans.
- Actively participate in the national government’s agenda for higher education:
- Reform of Law 30.
- University democracy.
- Higher education vision.
- To strengthen the monitoring and control of university contracting:
- It allows for more detailed consultation in the Citizen Oversight module.
- To define the obligatory nature of audits in public bidding processes.
- Promoting citizen oversight.
- Public accountability on contracting processes.
MANAGEMENT
Plan
- To help strengthen the University in order to continue advancing quality education with international projection.
- To encourage environmental awareness throughout the University and society.
- To strengthen the UIS family, generating a strong network that allows the advancement in the employability of alumni and the projects that arise from there.
- To support students and alumni in innovative projects and initiatives aimed at Science, Technology and Innovation and the development of the Department and the country.
- To contribute to the interaction and projection of the quadruple helix university, business, state and society, for human and social development through sustainable projects.
- To consolidate the national and international alumni network.
- To create a bank of alumni experience and projects.
- To hold meetings between students and alumni to broaden their vision with a view to carrying out joint actions or projects.
- To generate a strategy for sponsoring alumni with students.
- To strengthen the alumni’s strategic communication links with a view to employability.
MANAGEMENT
Plan
As representative of the alumni to the Superior Council, I want to be the spokesman for all those alumni that in the street day by day expose their misfortunes, that the specializations in medicine are very few, that the postgraduate programs are inaccessible, that the university is disconnected from the industry, that if there is no other alumni to represent and that we have a perpetual representative, that the professor’s teaching staff is 70%, that where else will they go to install Barichara stone.
I want to propose that it is enough to overbuild and build the infrastructure that is strictly necessary, that we dedicate our resources to exalt the Industrial name; industrial is the almost lost feature, I believe that the School of Industrial Design should be the driving force for the development of prototypes of cutting-edge technology in electric mobility, which together with the schools of E3T, Mechanics, Chemistry and Systems to develop batteries with new ions, innovative vehicles, more efficient electric motors, electronic systems and cutting edge programs and at the forefront of the challenges of today’s world, in an alliance between alumni and university.
I want to propose that postgraduate programs be accessible to any undergraduate alumni who wants to do it, that is, that a semester should cost at most one SMLV; also that specializations in Medicine be more abundant, two places for more than 500 candidates per call is too little supply for so much demand; that the Forestry Engineering program be opened at the main Campus, to contribute to the solution of the problem of climate change.