In order to create ties of union and publicize the benefits that they will obtain when carrying out their studies at the University of Cauca, the University Directorate welcomed the students who enter the undergraduate programs, corresponding to the first period of 2021, at the Popayán headquarters, an activity that was carried out with transmission through social networks.

 

In a virtual way, but no less emotional, on Monday, February 15, 2021, the new students of the University of Cauca learned about the great benefits that they will have in terms of well-being services and various cultural, sports, recreation activities, comprehensive service of health, restaurant, theater workshops, music, dance and other expressions of art, according to the Vice-Rector for Culture and Well-being, Deibar René Hurtado.

 

“I begin my short words with a recognition to our Governor Elías Larrahondo for having honored his word to support the development of infrastructure at the University of Cauca, on the subject of subsidized tuition or Zero Tuition. We welcome the students and congratulate them because they are the best of the best, new professionals that we will have for five years in their training process. Welcome to the best University of the Colombian Southwest. We are a University committed to Territorial Peace”, the Rector of the University of Cauca, José Luis Diago Franco, stated during his speech.

 

Similarly, the Governor of the department of Cauca, Elías Larrahondo sent a greeting to the new students who enter the first semester at the Alma Mater Cauca.

 

“I want to express a very special greeting to all the Directors and of course to the students who today make that important decision to start their training process. This greeting is covered with feelings of hope, of faith, which is what each of you incorporates in this decision, in which you will be the ones who will make that generational change, it is you who take the reins of our society, of our department and our country and it is up to those of us who today have the task of managing to contribute to that process”.

 

In turn, the vice-rector for Culture and Well-being, Deibar René Hurtado, reported on the different programs, campaigns and strategies that are developed within the University, in order to prevent dropping out of classrooms, the consumption of psychoactive substances, alcoholism , teenage pregnancies, as well as other projects aimed at developing sports and artistic skills and activities that promote a better quality of life and human values ​​through training workshops aimed at responsible sexuality, stress management, assertiveness, conflict resolution, self-esteem and leadership.

 

To develop the aforementioned initiatives, the Vice-Rector's Office for Culture and Well-being has the dependencies under its charge, such as the Culture Management Division, which attends to the programs of appropriation of heritage, artistic expressions and integrated arts. The Sports and Recreation Management Division favors healthy lifestyles and self-care of the body, for which it offers courses in field tennis, table tennis, sports dance, basketball, soccer and futsal, swimming, among others. Services that will be offered as the pandemic allows it.

 

For its part, the Comprehensive Health Management and Human Development Division administers the promotion and prevention programs in health, medical assistance, dental services, psychology and general medicine, as well as the university residency program, whose facilities are located in an advanced construction process.

 

Likewise, on Thursday 18 and Friday 19 February, the Vice-Rector's Office for Culture and Well-being will deliver souvenirs to new students at four points: Mosquera House Museum, Faculty of Engineering; Faculty of Health Sciences and in the Faculty of Natural, Exact and Education Sciences.

 

Also included in the welcome are the parents of the students who enter the Alma Mater classrooms; for this reason, the Vice-Rector's Office for Culture and Well-being scheduled a meeting for next February 24, at 6:00 in the afternoon, with the purpose of integrating fathers and mothers into the spaces and processes of institutional participation and making them aware of the different programs, projects and services offered for the integral well-being of university students and their families.

 

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Vice-rectory for Culture and Welfare

Email: vicecb@unicauca.edu.co