Towards a Shared Vision. Proposals for the Management of ECS UCV 
Bridging forward
We introduce ourselves as an option to assume the management of the School of Communication at the UCV for the period 2008 - 2011, we are called to define a vision of our school to be established from the field amplitude and academia. First, because we understand that in effect, as indicated in the Universities Act, are part of a community of spiritual interests that transcends us. The second because we understand that we are at a crucial time for school, a time which is essential to define ourselves as members of an association is through the efforts of those who conform and whose essence is referred to the problem of knowledge, of the creation of knowledge, professionalism, the incorporation of practical tools, improvement of the technological platform of the continuing discussion of the joint construction and the search for solutions to the problems we face as a collective. A community is always referenced in the individual, their interests and preferences, which has in the construction and transmission of relevant knowledge and its vital relevance.
We are, above all, an academic community. Our responsibilities are defined on the content of that concept. Our activities must be designed to strengthen the human spirit that makes us always. This does not mean we should be satisfied with the progress we have achieved in the past. The institutions should adapt to the times in which their activity takes place. We understand that we live in times of complexity, involving a major transformation on how we understand ourselves and how we understand ourselves against others. We at the School of Communication Social, a motorized structure to be substantive changes, for which, those who have satisfied the responsibility of rethinking in terms of its structure, its formation and its functioning. Ours is the first School of Social Communication of the country. We have a history of struggles and achievements. We maintain leadership since our inception we have taken to the university and to the country.
A school for everyone is everyone's responsibility. So our primary concern has been to define a team that allows us to assume responsibility and courage the challenges ahead. We propose a plural team, cohesive, defined around a program structure transformation of academic and administrative work that seems, at least not enough to guarantee our obligation to contribute, as proposed by the Universities Act, with the task of guiding the country's life through the clarification of the problems we as a society face. In this sense, we understand that it is essential to rescue the institutional fabric of the school and redefine the legal-academic performance of it. We in this proposal mean to the school from two perspectives: One, from our achievements, from what we have achieved since our progress from our traditions. Another, from the need to change to adapt to this, to face the challenges ahead, for interconnected local, regional, national and globally so that we formed in partners for the various sectors that constitute our reality, that we hear, for us to integrate, to look to the future and move towards him. We need to adapt to the 'spirit of our times "and further, understand that it is imperative that sponsored and participated in a much more active in a conversation-oriented university academic building space for the exercise of citizenship and the construction of democratic values .
Our main task is referred to the training of human in our area of \u200b\u200bresponsibility, each year graduating from our classrooms a large number of professionals in the area of \u200b\u200bsocial communication. However, our action should not be limited to these activities. On the contrary, ECS needs to become the axis of a building process to materialize communication areas within and outside the university campus. We propose a collectively conceived management, integrated into and with a firm stand out. We understand that it requires the aggregation of interests, openness to dialogue and consultation to the community as a prelude to making and implementing decisions that affect the whole school. This interest in the initiative fits us to enhance the convergence of disciplines, practices and people, we face the challenge of creating a cross-field communication, plural, and diverse cross as befits our contemporary world. We understand the ECS as an open forum for discussion of ideas, a school with multiple doors and windows, functional connectors that allow the solution of linear logic and unequivocal. Our field is one in which it is necessary to prevail multidirectional, reciprocity, tolerance and common construction.
We have a profoundly humanist. We aim to contribute to building a society better, in which individuals are understood as its constituent elements. Hence, our actions are based on the principles of justice, fairness, tolerance, equality of opportunity, inclusion, pluralism. Hence, we reject violence as a mechanism for resolving disputes, discrimination as a means of differentiating, disqualification as a mechanism for policy action. From there we believe in democracy as a mechanism for the construction of collective life and as a mechanism for managing our common destiny. Beyond the fact electoral democracy implies a continued development of our tissue institutional and social. Democratic governance must be based on pluralism and the call and continuous consultation of those who belong to 'ordinary'. May I respectfully request of you the confidence and support in conducting the School of Social Communication for the period 2008 to 2011.
I make this request from my academic and professional career, I do, assuming I understand the ethical responsibility falls to me as a member of this community, which reaffirmed the commitment that I and the team that have accompanied me to the School of Social Communication UCV, with its development, with their aspirations. We work for the School, with the aspiration to resume the path of academic excellence, administrative transparency, management of projects, social relevance and leadership. This with the idea that we can successfully assume the challenges of professional training of our students, research, extension, culture and citizenship development, as fundamental values \u200b\u200bof university life. We hope that the school becomes a space for the ongoing debate of ideas, respect for diversity, for greater integration. In short, we defend a position that corresponds to academic values \u200b\u200band aspirations of the CASA ENDING THE SHADOWS and those who are part of it.
Programmatic lines
i. Review Curriculum: The curriculum of studies of ECS in 1987. The same is general in nature that gives students the opportunity to take a varying number of classes through which passes along various areas of social communication. In our view, however, in the curriculum noted some difficulties in the sense that there are difficulties in ensuring the aggregation of the various knowledges that develop during the race. Content is necessary to develop a more coherent and integrated program, so that the theoretical and practical aspects of different subjects can be adding and incorporating en la formación de un profesional con una preparación más consistente y adecuada. En ese sentido, es necesario redefinir eje central de la carrera a los efectos de estructurar consistentemente sus contenidos. Es necesario integrar de manera eficiente los contenidos teóricos con el ejercicio profesional, al mismo tiempo es necesario profundizar en la construcción de categorías teóricas que le proporcionen una mayor profundidad conceptual al trabajo de nuestros egresados. Es imprescindible egresar a un profesional con capacidad real para interpretar la realidad que lo circunda y para intervenir en ella.
Es necesaria una revisión de los contenidos epistemológicos y ontológicos que orientan la formación profesional de nuestros students, as well as a review of practical knowledge. It is necessary to ensure the coherent development of techno and Logos, we need to form a professional at the same time to 'read' the reality, interpret and act on it, on the understanding that their activity will occur in a world that is in permanent transformation. Manage a greater integration between the undergraduate, graduate programs, research and extension constitute a task we must take immediately. The cross-cutting themes of knowledge and interdisciplinary work should serve as guiding principles for curriculum reform. In that sense, we understand the need for a broad call, and the continued contribution of the various departments and chairs that make up our school, both as students, graduates and experts in various topics to be discussed.
understand that this process must occur in at least two stages:
a) Review and update curricula: What is at issue is the end of the process of adapting the program content of the various materials that make up the curriculum and update your bibliography. It is necessary to define the criteria for inclusion of optional subjects in the curriculum for the purpose of ensuring that they are integrated consistently into the training process of students.
b) Establishment of Interdepartmental Committees: Through them, with student participation and integration with the Academic Coordinator of the EMF, we will advance the process of updating the curriculum of studies, this is the definition of the graduate profile for then determine the content of curriculum change. The redefinition of the contents of the curriculum of studies of the ECS is the definition of the contents epistemological, ontological and curriculum from which the training process are designed. Ie, it is necessary to raise an academic discussion that allows us to figure out where you should think about communication, what tools that journalists needed to successfully meet the challenges they face will be playing throughout his career, it is necessary to provide a coherent integrity to the way different subjects are structured and interwoven throughout the training process in the understanding that knowledge is developed are comprehensive in nature, making the need for such knowledge are completed and incorporated throughout the training process. The program content can not continue to have a waterproof nature.
We are aiming towards the creation of a curriculum of studies of 8 semesters, based on the principles of the Strategic Plan of the UCV and those who have been prescribed by UNESCO within the projects of this institution for the improvement of Higher Education in Latin America. We propose the development of a curricular structure to ensure the competitiveness of graduates and their eventual incorporation into the labor market, the use of resources (academic, financial, relational) are there in the institution and the incorporation of professional tools and concepts. In this vein it is necessary to consider credit as electives, extension activities in the fields of culture, sport, social and communication are carried out properly by the students.
Similarly, it is necessary the development of continuing education activities for professional development through graduate, refresher courses, courses and workshops. This will not only allow the school to maintain a direct relationship with the alumni service providing ongoing professional development, but allow us to add additional budgetary resources to school via its own income, which means a proper and transparent administration and accountability through systematic and regular, will allow us to cover part of our budget deficit. It is necessary to ask the opening of extension courses in specific areas (Communication and Policy, Public Relations, Digital Journalism, Radio and Television Production, Discourse Analysis, among others) that could possibly arise, and must be creditable toward graduate-level specialization. All this in a vision to strengthen the Communications Department of the Faculty and ensure greater integration between undergraduate and postgraduate. This includes the possibility of joint activities in research and extension, the attachment of the research developed by the teachers of the ECS within the umbrella ININCO institutional, program development joint research that includes the incorporation of students and eventually they open the possibility of developing his thesis in this mechanism.
This effort should include, in the same way, further integration of our school within the Interfaculty Cooperation Program (ICP) and greater integration within the research programs and lines of the Faculty, but in addition we must consider the possibility to develop joint activities in specific areas between the various schools that make up the EMF, as well as those from other faculties with which we partner. For example, we consider the possibility of joint development between our chair of the Department of Film and Film Art School, the same in true of literature, speech, foreign policy, statistics, social issues, methodology, among others. In the same vein and in order to strengthen these activities pose to strengthen the Commission of Inquiry into the ECS and our active involvement in the activities of the Research Coordination FHE and the Commission Extension the organization of forums, film festivals and open discussions.
ii. Strategic Institutional Positioning: We understand that the ECS must radiate their action within and outside the university community. It is necessary to overcome the idea of \u200b\u200bself-enclosed cloister and move towards an idea of \u200b\u200bthe university and the school from which they can be conceived as a campus that is overflowing throughout the country. Traditionally the university has fulfilled the function to produce, transmit and preserve knowledge. In our times this function must be complete in the sense of increasing the presence of the university in public discussion of the various problems we face as a society. The school can not be locked in on itself. For this reason it is imperative to review and redefine our strategic alliances. It is necessary to ensure greater integration and collaboration between the Schools of Social Communication of the country. So for the purposes of taking advantage of lessons learned and resources of each organization. We will resume the participation of the ECS in the Latin American Association of Communication Researchers (ALAIC) and American Federation of Social Communication Faculties (FELAFAC). Similarly, we will redefine the relationship of the ECS with the EHF, increased school participation in activities of the faculty is indispensable, among other things should we participate in various committees, contribute to the consolidation of the Communications Department and contribute achieving of the goals set by management decanal, among them the development of the newspaper account of the EHF.
An interesting possibility is to give open support to the National Film projection room for films that would constitute a complementary activity area and, eventually, serve as support for the activities of the department of film. In this sense it is very important to strengthen institutionally the Committee on Extension and at same time develop a more aggressive design and establish the school's public relations. Regarding the former, it is necessary to define and advance a greater number of cultural, sporting and recreational activities. Regarding the latter, we understand that it is institutional positions at public and private foundations, as well as with multilateral institutions (ILDIS, OAS), Embassies, publishing, media. This allows us to ensure a constant flow of information on activities carried out these institutions and we join them, just as will the ability to bring guests to school with different trends and different views of the world to the effect that talk to us about their experiences and perspectives on various topics, as well as opening opportunities for our students take internships, but still, opens the possibility that since these bodies are established job opportunities for our graduates. We are committed to expanding opportunities for discussion available on the ECS. Forums, chats, discussions, will be part of normal academic activities of the institution. The Chair Miguel Otero Silva is a very important initiative that should be reviewed as to their objectives, their guests and their design, it should be strengthened as a forum for free discussion and plural. Similarly, it is necessary to propose the opening of additional space for the free and constructive discussion of ideas.
A better relationship with Social Media and the College of Journalists is essential. These are our natural allies. The first because there are going to develop the work activities of a significant number of our future graduates. The second because it is necessary to have a consolidated union level which advance the defense of journalism, the spaces for communication and freedom of expression and information.
iii. Teaching: A fundamental problem that afflicts us has to do with the situation on the faculty of the ECS. In recent years we have experienced a substantial reduction of our faculty as a natural result of the retirement and removal processes. This is compounded by the fact that in many cases dedication dedications exclusive and full-time contracts have been replaced with part-time hours or platform. This reduces the real possibilities that teachers engaged in research and extension, limited to the implementation of educational activities. This endangers the update, specialization and quality of teaching-learning process. In this sense there has been a consistent policy of recruitment training, which has put the ECS in a particularly vulnerable.
We are committed to follow the procedure to ensure the allocation of a sufficient number of items that allow open competitive examinations in various areas. Selected personnel should advance the process of training that lead to the development of their work for promotion and integrated into the university staff. In this vein, we assume the policy of incorporating relief personnel under the following figures: preparation, research assistants, teaching assistants, temporary teachers. In this sense, we will advance a policy to increase the dedication of teachers, under the criteria of excellence in academic work and the recognition of the effort to improve professionally and needs of various departments. We want to establish objective criteria for the granting of items that are based on ECS actual requirements and not on subjective criteria grounded in interpersonal relationships, friendship, commitment and / or political agreements. Only in this way can be secured in the long term, proper functioning and consolidation of Chairs and Departments, which is essential for the proper functioning of the school.
understand that teachers must have a lifelong process: one referring strictly to the development of tools and strategies for teaching and teacher upgrading. This raised the possibility of signing an agreement with SADPRO to the effect that our staff can access these courses as part of their training process professional. Another, referring to the issue of promotion work and graduate as essential elements of the academic process. Our commitment is to contribute to improving our plant professorial providing institutional support required for the consolidation of the faculty, as well as for the development of the relief of the generation.
iv. Student Affairs: Students are the heart of the university, they must be oriented to the university academic management. We propose the development of a direct and broad as the students. We must establish a student Agora is formed in an institutional space for ongoing discussion, consideration of different views and consensus-building public. We will implement a Student Affairs Committee, within which are incorporated permanently duly elected student representatives. This in order to discuss, consider and give appropriate answers, and a peremptory time, the various requests that may be conducted by the student body, but also is formed in an area of \u200b\u200bcommunication and permanent connection between the various groups in which the student body is organized. We understand the need to improve the infrastructure of the offices occupied by the Student Center.
is necessary to review the operation of the copy center school for the purpose of ensuring a better service. Let's give the Board immediate opening of the School of Computing and improve the printing service. We will re-establish relations with the Coordination of University Sports, in addition we will facilitate the development of cultural and recreational activities that impact favorably on the development of academic activities and to become an integrated ECS. We propose the extension of the Academic Advisory Committee, and the opening of a permanent Student service, supported on the operation of the Department of Psychology of Communication. We also understand that it is necessary review the scope of the Community Service Program, in our opinion, it is necessary to strengthen financial and conceptually there is work ahead. The first to secure resources to develop more comprehensive programs that were to arise, the latter for the purpose of incorporating the perspective of 'public value' within the associated discussion. An unavoidable issue is the question of the status of students with disabilities, we understand the need to give special needs through various programs that the UCV has set for it, but it is also necessary to create conditions to facilitate their stay in school and contribute with their performance. V.
Communications products: The school requires communication become the center of a communication process that transcends it. This is only possible by ensuring the development of communication products of various kinds, through which it is possible to project the ECS and the EHF. Among these, it is raised a repeat of the Media and the weekly magazine Free Standard, they will be fed to the work of students and teachers of various departments in the school's academic structure. But additionally, it is necessary to open a character refereed academic journal in which research papers members of our community are collected and presented to national and international academic community.
The ECS has a leading role and responsibility in the development of the Journal of the Faculty. For this we need to redefine our position in the face of the Information Division of the UCV, the impact of this will enable us to draw on the experience gained there and the possibility that our students do internships in that instance. We are committed to the publication of the book commemorating 60 years of the ECS. We understand that work performed in the various Chairs and Departments that comprise the ECS has a relevant role, we understand that it must be released inside and outside the university community. To do this we will develop initiatives for the production of radio and television. We will support the development of a cooperative project between the departments of methodology, and broadcast journalism for the development of a Digital Radio Station and to develop video materials that can be incorporated into our digital platform and thence projected community.
Undoubtedly there is a limited use of our technology platform. We will make sure to update the school web page, just as we will leverage the platform for the design of digital learning content to be established an alternative for the development of distance learning classes or semi-face.
vi. Funding for projects: In the face of budgetary constraints is reflected in the higher education sector at the national level, it is necessary to find alternative funding sources to get access to resources for dealing with specific problems: allocation of laboratories Photography, improving infrastructure, acquisition of audiovisual equipment, replacement of terminal B-3 classrooms and computer-B-4 and placed properly configured network, wireless internet. To do this we will establish, through the Commission of Inquiry, a project development team through which we can access resources CDCH and the Organic Law of Cs. and Technology.
vii. Management Education: Redefining the working spaces of the ECS requires establishing management criteria from which to ensure the achievement of the objectives set by management and the achievement of the aspirations of those who are part of the academic community. We believe that at this time ECS requires strong leadership that is formed around the Direction and Coordination but additionally be integrated into the School Board, the Chair and Heads of Departments that comprise the functional structure of the institution . We in an open-door management, to sponsor negotiated solutions, cooperation, 'empowerment' of individuals and decision making horizontal. We need a more efficient management area, with capacity to meet demand and produce consistent and timely responses. We propose to 'open' Black Box Academic Coordination, improve the transparency of school management and resource management, provide regular accounts to the academic community, to submit to a process of learning are the main approaches comptroller. We will restore control to the instance that studies the EHF has been established to meet those responsibilities. It is necessary to rescue the majesty of the Directorate of School and the School Council as the highest academic body of the institution. The School Board should expand its role as an advisory body essential for the proper functioning of the institution. Let's restore
various functional commissions of the ECS. In principle we will continue operating the Commission officers for the review of the various materials which are known to the School Board. It is necessary to redefine the composition of the Committee on Equivalency and revalidation, we have already discussed the strengthening of the Committee on Research and Student Affairs, it is essential for a Committee on Infrastructure, to help us review the current status of our seat and set goals for improvement and adjustment. We are committed to handle the establishment of a Coordination for the night shift. We will review the registration process of the school for purposes of ensuring that it can be done smoothly, with a contingency plan sufficiently developed and supported by the EHF. We will review the course of narration, for the purpose of integrating more systematically the dynamics of the school, understand the need to review the academic structure of the course, and the increase of the remuneration of teachers participating in this program.
