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New education programNew education program

Now: Chemistry at UNADNow: Chemistry at UNADNow: Chemistry at UNAD

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

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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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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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The first leader of Regional Development and Com-munity Projection Department’s meeting was held in Ibagué on last June 18

th and 19

th. All the Directors and

leaders of Regional Development zone departments attended, in order to get to know all the VIDER proc-esses, all the subsystems and to achieve a team work leaded by the south zone to reach the university social

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Happy BirthdayHappy Birthday Three viceThree vice--presidenciespresidencies

Together for the Together for the

Regional DevelopmentRegional Development

En el Cead de Neiva estuvieron muy entusiastas durante

la celebración del cumpleaños 28 de la UNAD

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 re-

minded 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 bot-

tom 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 jour-

nalists will join to this purpose,

having in mind the advan-

tages that our University of-

fers in order to recognize the

work developed in the mass

media as journalists.

On the other side, the rec-

ognition by Colciencias to the

group Techonogical Innova-

tion of CEAD Florencia and

the approval of important pro-

jects in CEAD of Neiva, Pi-

talito, 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 resociali-

zation 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 Uni-

versity.

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 place-

ment 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 spe-

cials which let recognize the

essence of our zone from the

creation to the most important

projects that have impacted in

a positive way the communi-

ties which have felt the pres-

ence of UNAD.

In Ibague, the University

made presence as special

guest in the national parade of

the Colombian Folkloric Festi-

val on June 28th, the most

important universities of the

zone participated, among

them UNAD. With this partici-

pation the UNAD achieved to

show in front of the general

citizenship and the visitors

from all around the country

who enjoyed these parties.

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Nota EditorialNota Editorial Gloria Isabel

Vargas Hurtado

Directora

Zona Sur -

UNAD Nodo Ibagué

Reader´s commentsReader´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 funcio-

narios 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, can-

tarle a los unadistas en su cumpleaños feliz.......iiijaa.

Arlex Amezquita

Bienestar - Neiva

alty, faith and hope in a world where sometimes

becomes hostile and hopeless for many Colombi-

ans, but here is the Unadista family saying

¡present!

We all keep making, building, seeding, but

also harvesting the fruits of 28 years of dedica-

tion and devotion to the performance of our mis-

sion. Our greatest recognition to our Rector,

Jaime Alberto Leal Afanador, leader of the lead-

ers, who –thanks to his prospective vision- has

generated a lot of advances for our institution at

national and international level, also to our vicer-

rectors, 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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Happy BirthdayHappy Birthday

Reader’s comments

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developed along 2008 and

2009, since a lot of interests

have emerged related to the

achieving of new equipment,

laboratory material and reac-

tives in order to support and

strengthen the methodological

courses that demands practi-

cal component, also nowa-

days the university has the

necessary and enough instal-

lations, to secure the stu-

dents´ abilities and skills ap-

propriated 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 ex-

perimental 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 prob-

lems related, carrying out re-

searchers and developing

successfully the disciplinary

and interdisciplinary works

necessary to solve such prob-

lems.

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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 univer-sity social service system “SISSU” and the design and manage-ment 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 stu-dents are the most important characters; the Media and Peda-gogical 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 3

rd and 4

th commune in Ibagué and which will be contin-

ued counting on the three vice –presidencies’ support and the courses focusing in topics such as: disability, digital alphabeti-zation 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.

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Now: Chemistry at UNADNow: Chemistry at UNADNow: Chemistry at UNAD

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Together for the Together for the

Regional DevelopmentRegional Development

PitalitoPitalito

Specialization Specialization

DegreeDegree

CEAD from Pitalito recognized the Specializa-

tion 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.

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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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 profes-

sional communicators in the UNAD,

they will get a title as Social Commu-

nicators. 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 ho-

mologation and to take proficiency

tests in the areas that are considered

strongholds of product experience.

The CPB is

responsible for

verifying each

student experi-

ence and accord-

ing to this, the

CPB certifies an-

nually each one

of them, so they

can work in the

media as journal-

ists. The program

gives certain num-

ber of credits, so

students who

want to become

professional do

not have to study them again.

Out of 40 students, who enrolled

intersemestral period, 10 were en-

rolled from CEAD Ibagué through the

process of information and support

that were given from the Department,

School of Social Sciences, Arts and

Humanities and Social Screening and

Regional Development.

In August began a new cohort of

By: José Julián Ñáñez, ECE

Last June 23

rd the Edu-

cational Sciences Schools Dean together with the Dep-uty 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. S a ú l C a i c e d o B o -hórquez,who was very inter-ested in establishing an agreement between UNAD, and the school alumni and the current students.

Since the Normal School’s emphasis is hu-manistic, Mr. Bohorquez asked for a preliminary study for the undergraduate program in Bachelor of Eth-nic. This study was pre-sented to the national coor-dinator of Ethnic program, Alejandro Vargas, who ac-cepted the proposal, for this reason we begin the proc-ess 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 possi-ble to make it real.

All CEAD and CERES

are invited to motivate and generate this kind of ap-proaches with the Normal School, this way we can expand the presence of the School of Science Educa-tion in the South Zone.

CPB contract in TolimaCPB contract in Tolima

Journalists want to be professionalJournalists want to be professional

In IcononzoIn IcononzoIn Icononzo

Articulation process Unad Articulation process Unad Articulation process Unad --- Nomal NacionalNomal NacionalNomal Nacional

Grupo de estudiantes que iniciaron su proceso de profesio-

nalización gracias al convenio UNAD CPB.

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The research group of “INYUMACIZO” cead

Pitalito has obtained funding from Siunad to work

in two research projects.

The semillero “ROSIYE” won first place nation-

ally 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 semil-

lero 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 produc-

tive 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 phi-

losophical debate about the origins and conse-

quences 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.

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 peo-ple 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 depart-mental 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 identi-fied as the playground of women. During this time of in-teraction 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 psycholo-gy.

During six years I spent studying I got the best tools in Social Science Research Com-munity, and Psychology, which leads me today to be the coor-dinator of a successful program of support to the secretary of the management of the mayor of Ibague, laboratories Micro-enterprises, where I could ap-ply the won knowledge in the university classrooms, as well as the I am the author of a the-sis of the so-called declared successful pedagogical Fun Strategies For Training UNAD - Cead Ibague, which it got the feasibility and viability of be-coming a program of the mu-nicipal administration. I invite all those people who have not been able to reach their dreams of becoming profes-sionals, please, visit the Unad where furthermore of provid-ing a distance education way, which schedules are very flexi-ble, here you have the oppor-tunity of payments according the registered subjects, with its new virtual line, which makes education be possible anywhere in Colombia, with an excellent academic education.

Profiles

Life historyLife historyLife history

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Semillero Research Group, Semillero Research Group, Semillero Research Group,

the firts in at nacional levelthe firts in at nacional levelthe firts in at nacional level

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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 pro-

grams and have a good service

quality.

Because of that The Regional

Development and Community Pro-

jection Zone Department has or-

ganized an agreement with the

doctor Gina Marcela Ospina Or-

juela, who is the legal representa-

tive of an optician’s shop called

IMAGEN which is located across

the street from the Tolima theater

in Ibagué.

The agreement consists on let-

ting students, tutors, administrative

and academical staff and also their

families to get a 10% or 40% off in

some services that are offered

there.

Servicios

Optometry consulting

Ophthalmology consulting

REGULAR Ophthalmological

frames and lenses.

BIFOCALES frames and

lenses.

Frames and lenses in policar-

bohidrate.

Antiref lexion frames and

lenses.

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 promo-

tional visual programs such us :

preventive programs, educational

workshops, conferences, occupa-

tional and training visual health

programs.

These services will be offered

to all the Unadista community, in-

cluding The CERES from Líbano

and Mariquita, basic level educa-

tion students who are involved in

the University.

To have access to all this bene-

fits its necessary to show the iden-

tification card that proves the per-

son belongs to the Unadista Com-

munity.

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.

Young Students of Social Communication

in Libano Tolima are currently working in a

consolidation project of the Center for Commu-

nications 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 ad-

vance the first phase of the Project.

According to the student Aura del Pilar

Orellana, the first phase consists in the adap-

tation 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 them-

selves, create their own spaces of communi-

cation in which they feel recognized, that's

why we're talking about a Media Center and

not production only.

Similarly, Rosa Fernanda Collazos, men-

tor leader of the program of Social Communi-

cation, 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, work-

ing 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 communi-

cators.

Regional DevelopmentRegional Development

Working for the unadista Working for the unadista Working for the unadista

family´s wellbeingfamily´s wellbeingfamily´s wellbeing José Guillermo

Rodríguez Jiménez

Coordinador Zona Sur

de Desarrollo Regional

y Proyección Comunitaria

Zona Sur

Communications CenterCommunications Center

Líbano CERES Tolima Líbano CERES Tolima

Communications Center - Libano CE-RES UNAD Tolima

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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.

Ibagué

In a ceremony held in the auditorium of SENA last Fri-

day July 26, the CEAD Ibagué graduated 42 new profes-sional technologists belonging to the schools in Basic Sci-ence, Technology and Engineering, Administrative sci-ences, 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-

nanda Guerra Cardona, Germán Alberto Varón García

Tecnología en Sistemas: Cristian Camilo Bermudez Triana, Juan David Escobar Ramírez, Leonardo Oroz-co 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 Mo-yano Díaz, Eddi Maryuri Velásquez Laguna, Jorge Elie-cer Pachón.

Tecnología en Gestión Comercial y de Negocios: Gen-yers 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 More-no, Julie Andrea Benavides Sierra, Janey Viviana Rue-da Perea, Marlene Rozo Infante, Daniel Francisco Mu-rillo Cuprita, Johanna Andrea Arias Ortiz.

La Plata

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 (Reci-bió dos títulos): Diego Fernando Embus Hernández

Escuela de Ciencias Sociales, Artes y Humanidades

Psicólogo: Blanca Mirian Camayo Muñoz, Aliceth Per-domo 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

GraduationGraduation