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Uniendo Distancias Año 2. Correo 5 Julio / 2009 Zona Sur - Cead Ibagué
New education program
Now: Chemistry at UNAD
The Basic Sciences, Technology and Engineering School of the UNAD . CEAD Ibagué is proud of sharing with all the community the new academic offer corresponding to the program of Chemistry, which will begin in the second semester of 2009. Among the national centers of UNAD, the CEAD Ibagué has been chosen like one of the pioneers in order to offer the Chemistry Program, this achievement has taken place thanks to the great labor
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Three vice-presidencies
Together for the Regional Development
The first leader of Regional Development and Community Projection Department’s meeting was held in Ibagué on last June 18th and 19th. All the Directors and leaders of Regional Development zone departments attended, in order to get to know all the VIDER processes, all the subsystems and to achieve a team work leaded by the south zone to reach the university social
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Consejo Editorial Sandra Mercedes Parra Victoria E. Hernández José Julián Ñáñez Alejandro Méndez Oscar Luna Riojas Danilo Bonilla Jhon Fredy Montes Juan Carlos Mojica Milena Alcócer
Dirección Gloria Isabel Vargas H.
Coordinación William Villa Sandoval
Edición, diseño y diagramación Alexandra Acosta Cifuentes
Traducción Henry Carvajal, Jorge Hernández, Edna García, Carlos Granada
Happy Birthday
En el Cead de Neiva estuvieron muy entusiastas durante la celebración del cumpleaños 28 de la UNAD
All around the country and abroad, we enjoy the celebration of the 28 anniversary of our University, we also celebrate from the south zone and pay a deep tribute to those people who make this dream come true “a new educational project for our country and the world”, also to those people who are active members in the human issue recovery, seeding knowledge every day, known values such as the respect, solidarity, loy-
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Reader’s comments
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Nota Editorial Gloria Isabel Vargas Hurtado Directora Zona Sur UNAD Nodo Ibagué
Our work team pays a deep tribute to our University in its 28 years, that was held all around the country and in the Florida CEAD, with the participation of the Dr Magaly Pinzón, our rector and of course, from heaven our reminded master Dr. Miguel Ramón as cofounder of our University. Likewise all the staff feel proud of being part of the UNADISTA family, the noblest feelings from the bottom of our hearts. Besides, we must highlight that the first CPB cohort has started with 11 journalists from Ibagué, musical city of Colombia. Surely, many journalists will join to this purpose, having in mind the advantages that our University offers in order to recognize the work developed in the mass media as journalists. On the other side, the recognition by Colciencias to the group Techonogical Innovation of CEAD Florencia and the approval of important projects in CEAD of Neiva, Pitalito, Florencia and Ibagué by SIUNAD, reflects the work done from our zone with the support of Dr Facundo Maldonado from the national head office and the Red Vida. The creation of the Research Group “Pasos de Libertad” which strengthen our work at
INPEC taking care not only of the prisoners but also the important projects of resocialization of prisoners and their families. We cannot forget the graduation celebrated on June 27th where we shared happy moments with our students. Most of them are carrying out the labor entrusted by our University. For our south zone, we feel very proud of keeping with the consolidation of the academic and administrative processes; in the social and community awareness of our work team, of our students and the placement achieved in our zone thanks to the commitment of our leaders in each CEAD and CERES. From the next edition, we will begin with a series of specials which let recognize the essence of our zone from the creation to the most important projects that have impacted in a positive way the communities which have felt the presence of UNAD. In Ibague, the University made presence as special guest in the national parade of the Colombian Folkloric Festival on June 28th, the most important universities of the zone participated, among them UNAD. With this participation the UNAD achieved to show in front of the general citizenship and the visitors from all around the country who enjoyed these parties.
Reader´s comments Warm Greetings from Florencia Caquetá, “the golden door of the Amazon” have in mind that we all make part of the Unadista Community, and we must be proud of it. Milton Enrique Lara Barrero Representante Red Estudiantes CEAD Florencia Friendly greeting to the entire south zone from Florencia. The virtual news paper is a new way to get communicated and it allows as to know about the work each one is doing in the different CEAD and CERES, and it strengthen tutor’s friendship. A big hug! Lina María González Arango Coordinadora de Bienestar Institucional CEAD Florencia Egresados, red estudiantil tutores y funcionarios se encontraron y rindieron un gran homenaje en sus 28 años a nuestra UNAD . Una bonita y muy diciente serenata con rajaleñas opitas: y así, y así, así es que me gusta a mí, cantarle a los unadistas en su cumpleaños feliz.......iiijaa. Arlex Amezquita Bienestar - Neiva
Happy Birthday Come from first page alty, faith and hope in a world where sometimes becomes hostile and hopeless for many Colombians, but here is the Unadista family saying ¡present! We all keep making, building, seeding, but also harvesting the fruits of 28 years of dedication and devotion to the performance of our mission. Our greatest recognition to our Rector, Jaime Alberto Leal Afanador, leader of the leaders, who –thanks to his prospective vision- has generated a lot of advances for our institution at national and international level, also to our vicerrectors, and all the directors at national level, to our south zone directors and to all our human staff who have become the today University one of the most important, recognized by its social community spirit, the social INCLUSION and the community projection. Happy Birthday UNAD
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Three vice-presidencies
Together for the Regional Development
Come from first page projection. It is very important to show the outstanding articulation and “reticularity” of the three vice-presidencies of our University to lead all the activities that have to do with the social projection: the Regional Development Vice-presidency is in charge of all the community processes leading projects such as the university social service system “SISSU” and the design and management of the knowledge maps; the Academical and research Vice-presidency leads through the faculties and its articulation with the academical courses and the “SISSU”, in which the students are the most important characters; the Media and Pedagogical Resources Vice-presidency supports the studies about the knowledge maps in which there are 69 participants in the whole zone and 23 of them belong to Cead Ibagué. On the other hand this meeting strengthened through the Psychosocial Service Center the knowledge maps designed for the 3rd and 4th commune in Ibagué and which will be continued counting on the three vice –presidencies’ support and the courses focusing in topics such as: disability, digital alphabetization and solid waste impact. The work that has been done in Ibagué is an example of an articulated vice-presidencies work, which come together to make the operative University Plan possible in order to promote the community development.
Pitalito
Specialization Degree
CEAD from Pitalito recognized the Specialization degree in Strategic Marketing Management, achieved by four partners of the work team: Rocio del Pilar Vanegas and Nancy Bolívar , who works as administrative employees. Clara Sofia Villegas and Avelino Artunduaga , ECACEN Tutors. These four new specialists in Business Management, graduated from the UNAD. They already completed their third title in higher education in our university. Congratulations to our co-workers at the CEAD, we want our colleagues to continue to be success in their professional lives.
Now: Chemistry at UNAD Come from first page developed along 2008 and 2009, since a lot of interests have emerged related to the achieving of new equipment, laboratory material and reactives in order to support and strengthen the methodological courses that demands practical component, also nowadays the university has the necessary and enough installations, to secure the students´ abilities and skills appropriated in the experimental field.
Purpose of formation The program has as pur-
pose to form professionals in Chemistry with the abilities and attitudes for the study and the application of the experimental sciences occupied to create, interpret, analyze and assimilate Chemistry technology, make synthesis, separations, identification and characterization of all type of chemical compounds with the purpose of identifying problems related, carrying out researchers and developing successfully the disciplinary and interdisciplinary works necessary to solve such problems.
Rocío del Pilar Vanegas Rojas, administrativa; Nancy Bolívar Collazos, responsable de Registro y Control en el Cead; Avelio Artunduaga Escobar, tutor de la ECACEN; Clara Sofía Caviedes Villegas, tutora de ECACEN. Los acompaña Adelaida Cuéllar Bahamón, líder de cadena de formación ECACEN en el Cead.
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CPB contract in Tolima
Journalists want to be professional
A group of 10 local journalists, who work in the media, are currently studying in the Unad in order to be professionals . Thanks to the national convention that the University has subscribed to the Journalists' Circle of Bogota, CPB, empirical journalists, technicians and technologists across the country have the opportunity to become professional communicators in the UNAD, they will get a title as Social Communicators. The agreement recognizes the experience that each participant has obtained through the years of work , published papers, audiovisual productions and so on. In additional this program allows students to apply for approval of homologation and to take proficiency tests in the areas that are considered strongholds of product experience.
The CPB is responsible for verifying each student experience and according to this, the CPB certifies annually each one of them, so they can work in the media as journalists. The program gives certain number of credits, so Grupo de estudiantes que iniciaron su proceso de profesios tudents who nalización gracias al convenio UNAD CPB. want to become professional do not have to study them again. that were given from the Department, Out of 40 students, who enrolled School of Social Sciences, Arts and intersemestral period, 10 were en- Humanities and Social Screening and rolled from CEAD Ibagué through the Regional Development. process of information and support In August began a new cohort of
In Icononzo
Articulation process Unad - Nomal Nacional
By: José Julián Ñáñez, ECE
Last June 23rd the Educational Sciences Schools Dean together with the Deputy Regional Development visited Normal Superior School that is located in Icononzo, Tolima. The main objective was to offer UNAD programs. It was the first approach with institution’s principal Mr. Saúl Caicedo Bohórquez,who was very interested in establishing an agreement between UNAD, and the school alumni and the current students.
Since the Normal School’s emphasis is humanistic, Mr. Bohorquez asked for a preliminary study for the undergraduate program in Bachelor of Ethnic. This study was presented to the national coordinator of Ethnic program, Alejandro Vargas, who accepted the proposal, for this reason we begin the process of formalizing it through the establishment of the contract. This proposal includes municipalities such as: Coyaima and Natagaima, places in which the Normal
has alumni and is currently students. We hope that this effort will be successful and we can begin as soon as possible to make it real. All CEAD and CERES
are invited to motivate and generate this kind of approaches with the Normal School, this way we can expand the presence of the School of Science Education in the South Zone.
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Pitalito, Outstanding Research Group
Semillero Research Group, Profiles the firts in at nacional level
The research group of “INYUMACIZO” cead Pitalito has obtained funding from Siunad to work in two research projects. The semillero “ROSIYE” won first place nationally among the projects proposed, it got 93 points out of 100, with the projects: Institutional Plan of Environmental Management PIGA and Mora de Castilla project. The Agriculture School (ECAPMA) of UNAD CEAD Pitalito, leader of this project has decided to advance in the creation and strength the semillero research, to turn it into the research group INYUMACIZO.
The research group Inyumacizo was created in 2006 and its members are four research tutors of the University National Open and Distance Unad, Cead Pitalito. They, along with, some students have developed research projects in the productive chains and biodiversity, as well as on issues of biopreparados, forest species, fruit of moderate cold weather, special coffees, pasture and forage, watershed and sustainable tourism. The research has s opened the technical philosophical debate about the origins and consequences of the "Sustainable development" and has directed efforts towards a "cultural change" Under these assumptions, INYUMACIZO which takes the name of the language quetchua "YUMA", meaning River friend, the research team has submitted three projects to the research Unadista system "SIUN" 2009, which have gotten an outstanding evaluation.
Life history
Marlene Rozo, Psychologist graduate of the UNAD .
When we began our life we project to do many things while we move forward in age we notice that it is not easy to achieve our goals, some people give up some very soon , others we cross the barriers in order to reach our dreams. I began as a leader in the Neighborhood Health Center, Jorge Eliécer Gaitán committee where I´ve lived the most of my life, with a strong vocation for the community service, then, by profiting the space offered by the Community agreements I accepted the leader of the community action in the same neighborhood for eight years, into which we got a great social achievement, by receiving many incentives for recognition from the community and the municipal and departmental administration. Then by a behave from some colleagues I was named to the local governing action, obtaining two seats on the list, I was president of the suburb number four, a big community with thirty four suburbs, during a entire period to be recognized and decorated as one of the best leaders of the town. I also collaborated by doing social work in prison Picaleña
for several years, by achieving rearrange some groups identified as the playground of women. During this time of interaction with the community, I understood the need to prepare myself more in order to get targets with social groups which I led, so I decided to study a social career, and in the only Educative Institution that filled my expectation was the UNAD where I could study social Communitary psychology. During six years I spent studying I got the best tools in Social Science Research Community, and Psychology, which leads me today to be the coordinator of a successful program of support to the secretary of the management of the mayor of Ibague, laboratories Microenterprises, where I could apply the won knowledge in the university classrooms, as well as the I am the author of a thesis of the so-called declared successful pedagogical Fun Strategies For Training UNAD Cead Ibague, which it got the feasibility and viability of becoming a program of the municipal administration. I invite all those people who have not been able to reach their dreams of becoming professionals, please, visit the Unad where furthermore of providing a distance education way, which schedules are very flexible, here you have the opportunity of payments according the registered subjects, with its new virtual line, which makes education be possible anywhere in Colombia, with an excellent academic education.
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Regional Development
Working for the unadista family´s wellbeing José Guillermo Rodríguez Jiménez Coordinador Zona Sur de Desarrollo Regional y Proyección Comunitaria Zona Sur
People from the south zone of the University work for the integral development and wellbeing of all the Unadista family and we are also aware of the people´s need to have access to good health programs and have a good service quality. Because of that The Regional Development and Community Projection Zone Department has organized an agreement with the doctor Gina Marcela Ospina Orjuela, who is the legal representative of an optician’s shop called IMAGEN which is located across the street from the Tolima theater in Ibagué. The agreement consists on letting students, tutors, administrative and academical staff and also their families to get a 10% or 40% off in some services that are offered there.
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Progressive lenses Transitions lenses. Cosmetic Lenses Prescribed Lenses Certificates for schools Refractive Surgery Cataract surgery Terigios surgery The Optician´s shop will also develop preventive and promotional visual programs such us : preventive programs, educational workshops, conferences, occupational and training visual health programs. These services will be offered to all the Unadista community, including The CERES from Líbano and Mariquita, basic level education students who are involved in the University. To have access to all this benefits its necessary to show the identification card that proves the person belongs to the Unadista Community. It is very important to extend the invitations to all our University community in order they can enjoy this agreement which has a valid period of 3 years.
Communications Center - Libano CERES UNAD Tolima
Communications Center
Líbano CERES Tolima Young Students of Social Communication in Libano Tolima are currently working in a consolidation project of the Center for Communications at the UNAD of this town. Recognizing the need to open a space for their professional practices and to contribute to the community through training workshops in radio, television and newspapers, students of this program, coordinated by the tutor leader Rosa Fernanda Collazos Quiñónez advance the first phase of the Project. According to the student Aura del Pilar Orellana, the first phase consists in the adaptation of space: cleaning , painting , putting the ceiling and doing other necessary activities, and in getting thee consolidation of draft letter to be able to manage the resources necessary to the second phase which is the technical adequacy, we need some basic equipment like a computer, microphone, console and a pair of recording media. According to the student the third phase is working with the communities: There are many young people in Líbano interested in linked projects of training and even more if media is more, young people need to express themselves, create their own spaces of communication in which they feel recognized, that's why we're talking about a Media Center and not production only. Similarly, Rosa Fernanda Collazos, mentor leader of the program of Social Communication, asserts that students are working very excited because they know it is a project for them, and the focus of it is social, so they hope to contribute to their community advising processes of community action boards, working with institutions and why not with their own media. It is important that professionals engage with their localities and from that recognizes the realities of its context and think about the contribution they can make from their work areas. This is the most valuable of the project, beyond the physical space is the social vision and desire to work with such young communicators.
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Graduation Florencia
CEAD of Florencia graduations were carried out on June 26th.. The event was attended by administrative staff, academics, family and friends of the new professionals in Communication and Social Psychology.
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nanda Guerra Cardona, Germán Alberto Varón García Tecnología en Sistemas: Cristian Camilo Bermudez Triana, Juan David Escobar Ramírez, Leonardo Orozco Mora, Douglas Odair Parra Gómez, Escuela de Ciencias Administrativas, Económicas y de Negocios Administración de Empresas: Claudia Liliana Rojas Flores, Ubely Iglesias Caicedo, Johana Alexandra Moyano Díaz, Eddi Maryuri Velásquez Laguna, Jorge Eliecer Pachón. Tecnología en Gestión Comercial y de Negocios: Genyers Alirio García Martínez, Julián Mendoza Alfaro, Henry Alberto Casallas Chavez Escuela de Ciencias Sociales, Artes y Humanidades Comunicación Social: Mónica Edith Wilches, Leydy Carolina Villa Garibello, Jeniffer Gualeteros Pastrana, Dickson Alfonso Bonilla Mahecha Psicología: Gloria Hermencia Giraldo Salazar, Rosa María Aguirre Castro, Gina Paola Parra Osorio, Luis Ernesto Camacho Ramírez, Jairo Gutiérrez Sánchez, Luisa Fernanda Cabrera Suárez, Nancy Estella Gómez Zamarra, Rocío de las Nieves Cáceres Marín, Beatriz Helena López Cardona, Nazly Johana Herrera Moreno, Julie Andrea Benavides Sierra, Janey Viviana Rueda Perea, Marlene Rozo Infante, Daniel Francisco Murillo Cuprita, Johanna Andrea Arias Ortiz.
La Plata
In a ceremony held in the auditorium of SENA last Friday July 26, the CEAD Ibagué graduated 42 new professional technologists belonging to the schools in Basic Science, Technology and Engineering, Administrative sciences, Accounting, Economic and Business and Science Social, Arts and Humanities: Escuela de Ciencias Básicas, Tecnología e Ingeniería Ingeniería de Sistemas: José Didier Bonilla Baquero, Juan Gabriel Gómez Mata, Sandra Patricia Galeano, Teodoro Cadena Vergara, Diego Alejandro Díaz Olaya, Diana Carolina Delgado Vásquez, María Inés Paniagua Gómez, William Rojas Rojas, Diego Alexandro Galindo Lasso, Tecnologías en Regencia en Farmacia: Margaret Fer-
Escuela de Ciencias Agrícolas, Pecuarias y del Medio Ambiente: Profesional en Manejo Agroforestal: Mónica Andrea Lizcano Caldón, Efrén Pedro Muñoz Yasno Tecnólogo en Producción Animal y Zootecnista (Recibió dos títulos): Diego Fernando Embus Hernández Escuela de Ciencias Sociales, Artes y Humanidades Psicólogo: Blanca Mirian Camayo Muñoz, Aliceth Perdomo Hurtado Escuela de Ciencias Básicas, Tecnología e Ingeniería Ingeniero de Sistemas: José Heivar Camayo Muñoz Escuela de Ciencias Administrativas, Contables, Económicas y de Negocios Administrador de Empresas: Juan Carlos Perdomo Vargas