Universidad Catolica Silva Henriquez in Chile hosted the 7th Salesian University Institutions Conference

UPS, viernes 15 septiembre 2017
Father Javier Herrán talking about UPS's experience during the conference
Father Javier Herrán talking about UPS's experience during the conference

 

From the 12th to the 15th September, Universidad Catolica Silva Henriquez in Chile hosted the 7th Salesian University Institutions (IUS for its acronym in Spanish) Conference where over 20 higher education salesian institutions from Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico and Chile met to discuss issues of good salesian practices carried out in their countries.

They also spoke about ways to strengthen the IUS in America based on the agreements established during the 7th General Assembly of IUS in Rome in July 2016.

The official activities of IUS 2017 started on September 5th with the official visit of the General Coordinator of Higher Education Salesian Institutions  (IUS), Father Marcelo Farfan Pacheco. 

UPS president Javier Herran along with Jose Juncosa, vice president of UPS's branch campus in Quito, and Pablo Farfan, director of the Distance and Virtual Education Department, were there to promote the initiatives to strengthen salesian institutions and have academic cooperation among these higher education institutions. 

Some of the topics on good salesian practices that were discussed were: the salesian groups at UPS (Ecuador), the program titled "communication with values" from Universidad Mesoamericana de Guatemala, the program "Voluntariado Missionario" from UNISALESIANO in Brazil, the "admissions and inclusion to university life system for students from vulnerable sectors" from USCH in Chile. 

It should be noted that the IUS is a network of Salesian institutions of higher education, made up of 80 international organizations, and in the American Continent 24 institutions in 9 countries: 9 universities, 4 university centers, 5 institutes, 6 faculties, whose values are born with Don Bosco's Preventive System

Finally, all the institutions signed an academic cooperation agreement celebrated mass.