The UDA has a great future

The University of Azuay was born in 1968. In its beginnings it was part, first, of the Santiago de Guayaquil Catholic University and, later, of the Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador. In 1990 it was recognized as the University of Azuay and in 2006 it was the first to achieve accreditation by the National Council for Evaluation and Accreditation, CONEA.  

From its beginnings, its fundamental principles were to be a research-oriented university; accredited with national and international standards; and, become a national academic benchmark. For this, it currently offers undergraduate training through its twenty-nine schools distributed in six faculties. The academic offer responds to the needs identified in our province, region and country, framed in the essential commitment to serve society.

Juan Cordero Iñiguez, Claudio Malo, Juan Cordero and Mario Jaramillo have preponderantly fulfilled guiding missions. Names consecrated by work, fidelity and human sense of permanent commitment.

In his first period as the first authority of the UDA, Dr. Francisco Salgado Arteaga (Paco), the growth has been substantial. First, its infrastructure: buildings, laboratories, libraries, auditoriums, Campus Tech, a new campus for La Asunción, so that students are better served and in pursuit of educational excellence. The increase in the academic offer at the undergraduate, postgraduate and doctorate levels in various disciplines, with costs and modalities affordable to the majority of the population, is notorious.

His proposals, together with the charismatic and talented Genoveva Malo and Raffaella Ansaloni, who are seeking re-election, are the strengthening of the academic and institutional educational model, diversification of the educational offer, employment links with the productive and business sectors, greater scientific research and the promotion of projects with a real impact on society, so important in the current crisis and recession in the country and the entire region.

I agree with the renowned former Rector and pioneer of this alma mater, Dr. Mario Jaramillo Paredes, that the UDA has a great future with Paco at the helm. (OR)