Guanajuato, Gto., June 29, 2016.- At the conclusion of the semester, the university community of Campus Guanajuato has achieved the accreditation of six Major degree programs in the Divisions of Architecture, Art and Design (DAAD); Engineering (DI; Natural and Exact Sciences (DCNE) and Social Sciences and Human Studies (DCSH); which undoubtedly contributes to the improvement in the educational quality of the University of Guanajuato.

That is what in an interview revealed Dr. Javier Corona Fernández, Rector of Campus Guanajuato, who congratulated the college students who have contributed with their effort in these achievements, because this allows the University of Guanajuato to move in the indicators of quality in function of what is established in the Plan of Institutional Development (PLADI) which currently is under evaluation and update.

In this semester, he said, finished some of the visits in situ for the evaluation and accreditation of several major programs, and the valuators made direct interviews with the student population, authorities, professors and administrative personnel and, in all cases, academic committees were received, in what the final stage was, of a work that takes months to integrate the information.

Accredited degrees

At DAAD there were positive results from the evaluation of the degree in Visual Arts and the degree in Music, which already have accredited their program, but also, they are about to receive the accreditation of the degree in Architecture, which begun few days ago.

At DI there were positive results from two programs of the degree: Geomatics Engineering and Civil Engineering from accrediting organisms that belong to the Council for the Accreditation of the Higher Education (COPAES); while at DCNE they had the participation of another evaluating instance: The Interinstitutional Committees for the Evaluation of Higher Education (CIEES), who evaluated the degree in Experimental Biology and obtained level 1; as for DCSH they already received the positive result from the evaluation of the degree in History.

Improvement plans

The Rector of Campus Guanajuato expressed his recognition to the work done by the committees in charge of the process: the Directors of Division, the Academic Committees and the professors of the departments who directly collaborated and conduct the program, but also the administrative work because a fundamental part of these work is to analyze the institutional resources the programs have.

Equally, Dr. Corona observed that the interviews made to the students, employers and graduates, contributed in broadening the panorama of all the agents who intervened so the programs are recognized as quality programs.

This has allowed the UG to also establish, parting from the recommendations, improvement plans in the academic programs, he said, because even obtaining the accreditation, such as running programs and in constant adequacy and answers the social needs, observations and recommendations are helpful so at the same time, in the internal level, you can negotiate to obtain more support so the programs maintain in that level.

He reminded that within the evaluation sessions, he was responsible to be present at the beginning of the works and what he could point out from the questions, was the way in which UG has answered the needs for a balanced development in all its programs, because if they began with certain disciplines, they have gradually diversified.

Finally, on the acknowledgement of the own evaluating organisms, Dr. Corona Fernández highlighted that they answer to thorough standards being organisms linked to COPAES and they are integrated by the best in the country of each discipline.

Just to quote an example, in the case of the degree in Music, they evaluated the program of Ph.D. David Rodríguez de la Peña, Director of the National Conservatory of Music; Ph.D. Alfredo Bringas Sánchez; from the Faculty of Music from UNAM; Ph.D. Gonzalo de Jesús Castillo, institutional representative of the Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas; M.A. Minerva Hernández, from the Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Hidalgo and Singing teacher in the National Conservatory of Music and Ph.D. Vicente López Velarde, from the Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro and Teacher at the Faculty of Bellas Artes.