New student representatives took office for the 2017 - 2019 period

Quito, miércoles 19 julio 2017

Student representatives are awarded diplomas

The new members of the university's Students Fedaration (FEUPS) in UPS's branch campus in Quito took office on July 14th during a special ceremony presided by UPS president Javier Herran. 80 students were awarded diplomas that certify them as representatives of their faculty, campus and branch for the 2017-2019 period.

The university board was made up by Jose Juncosa, Irene Lema, Nicolas Grijalva and Gladys Angulo. Jose Juncosa wished the new representatives the best of luck during their period and encouraged them to focus on problem solving, work hard and cooperate with the university's academia and administrative processes.

Nicolas Grijalva, elected president, invited his classmates to begin this new period of student representatives with a strong commitment to cooperate with others. "I want us to have a holistic education and be students that can be transcend", he said.

During this event, they spoke about the campaign titled "Si pero No, que mismo es el amor tóxico? (What is toxic love?). The aim of this campaign is encourage people to prevent violence in relationships. On this proposal, Father Javier encouraged students to be positive agents and asked the new representatives to lead this campaign.

He also asked them to promote the university's program to be academic tutors in order to help reduce student dropout rates and improve academic performance.

The representatives are: