Presentation

Universidad de Mendoza as a whole, managers, teachers, non-teaching staff, students and graduates havebeen carrying out an analysis and permanent reflection on the university educational project, with the purpose of proposing, developing and evaluating actions that lead to reaching levels of excellence in all its academic, administrative and management processes.

The main points of interest for this analysis and reflection have been the vision, the mission, the institutional policies, the demands of the regional, national and international context and the current legislation for Higher Education.

As a result of this process, the explicit formulation of the Institutional Project and the Institutional Strategic Plan was possible, which will guide the development of management, teaching and research actions, as well as the interaction of the University with society in the coming years.

Introduction

The UM is a private non-profit institution that fulfills a public function for the exclusive benefit of society as a whole, of which it feels an indissoluble part, adding to it a decided commitment to the common good whose Vision and Mission are specified by continuation.

Vision

It was born from a University that seeks to govern, educate and teach itself in a free and independent way from political and ideological vicissitudes, dedicating its work to the formation of men and women who -on the basis of a solid and adequate moral personality- are authentically university students. These students, with the heritage of their scientific or artistic, professional and technical preparation, are to fully fulfill their own human and individual destiny and to serve the community with the resources of knowledge and culture.

Faithful to the principle of freedom of thought, the UM excludes any sectarianism that emanates from political, racial, regional, religious, class positions or of any other nature; However, not ignoring these questions, but studying them scientifically.

The totality of the activities of the UM, are characterized by an inalienable search of the intellectual quality; quality that supposes a rigorous commitment to the truth, the systematicity of knowledge and the elevation of scientific knowledge.

Mission

The integral formation of the human being, through a continuous improvement of the teaching that it imparts, of the quality research that it seeks, of the extension and transfer of knowledge to society.

Universidad de Mendoza is a non-profit civil institution whose only associates are ordinary teachers, who also exercise their full government. It is the University's commitment to contribute to educational development and regional and national productive needs, as well as to the improvement of the Argentine university system.

Context

Universidad de Mendoza It has its Central campus in the City of Mendoza, capital of the homonymous province.

The City of Mendoza was founded by Pedro del Castillo on March, "2", naming it "Ciudad de Mendoza City del Nuevo Valle de La Rioja". The initial location of Mendoza was located in what is currently known as La Media Luna in the Pedro Molina District, in the Department of Guaymallén, on the east bank of the channel currently known as Cacique Guaymallén. The city was under the jurisdiction of the Captaincy General of Chile, although both this Captaincy and all the extensions of Spanish territory south of the isthmus of Panama, at that time were part of the Viceroyalty of Peru.

Mendoza is an Argentine province located in the west of the country that is divided into the departments of Godoy Cruz, Capital, Luján de Cuyo, Maipú, Guaymallén and Las Heras - also called 'Gran Mendoza'.

The total population of the province is "1.700.000" inhabitants, of which "800.000" reside in Greater Mendoza, making it the fourth largest population settlement in the country.

Its economic structure is based fundamentally on the production of primary goods: oil, mining, agriculture, with a growing participation of industry, especially agro-industry and metallurgy. The economy, benefited from the geographical location, makes Mendoza a point of convergence of routes linking with the countries of the Southern Cone and, especially, an exit point for the Pacific markets.

Regarding its social structure, the province is characterized by the existence of a strong middle class, with a reduced dependence on the public sector and a high average educational level of the population. Likewise, the cultural level is relatively high, both quantitatively and qualitatively, a feature that is manifested in the holding of congresses, meetings and conferences of a professional, scientific or cultural nature in its territory.

General Policies

The UM Institutional Project arises from the consideration of the objectives proposed in the mission and it is expected that the final result of its fulfillment and its practical realization will give meaning to the activity of the academic community and its university culture.

The Institutional Project is organized in four axes, namely:

Excellence in education and comprehensive training of the human being

• Academic Quality
• Student Wellness
• The Improvement and Well-being of the Teaching Staff

Quality research

• Research and Knowledge Production

Extension and transfer of knowledge, and the link with the environment and the productive sector

• The Extension and Transfer of Knowledge
• Interinstitutional Cooperation and Linkage with the environment

Institutional management

• Optimize resource allocation.
• Manage the information
• Institutionalize student care
• Well-being of non-teaching staff

Each of them are developed below:

Excellence in education and comprehensive training of the human being

Academic Quality.

• • Adapt the educational offer to the training needs of society, favoring lifelong learning.
  • Promote the mastery of new technologies and improve the academic results of students.
  • Maintain a teaching of excellence.
  • Strengthen inter-institutional ties that foster effective cooperation and promote the exchange and mobility of teachers and students.
  • Install the culture of collaborative work among all Academic Units.

Student welfare.

• • Perfect training, specialization to promote the employment of students.
  • Promote the internationalization of teaching, student mobility and facilitate the knowledge of languages.
  • Extend the practice of physical-sporting, recreational and artistic activities in all their forms and promote the development of healthy lifestyle habits.
  • Improve the quality and quantity of services and supplies that are made available to students.
  • Maintain the scholarship and financial aid system, trying to avoid desertions for financial reasons.

Improvement and Well-being of the Teaching Staff.

• • Stimulate continuous teacher training.
  • Strengthen the allocation of resources for the continuation and completion of studies, as well as for attending scientific events.
  • Promote the mobility of teachers and the development of the teaching degree course.
  • Deepen recreational and cultural activities.
  • Improve the University website in support of teaching management.

Quality research

Research and Knowledge Production.

• • Define a system of entry and permanence in research.
  • Improve research results and promote the connection with innovation, society and companies.
  • Increase the quality of research groups and the scientific productivity of researchers.
  • Promote the participation of research groups in national, regional and international networks and stimulate the mobility of researchers.
  • Use research as a development cooperation tool.

Extension and transfer of knowledge and the link with the environment and the productive sector

Extension and Transfer of knowledge.

• • Intensify the transformative relationships between the university and society.
  • Provide services of academic, scientific, technological, artistic, philosophical and educational interest from the perspective of knowledge production, dissemination and institutional development.
  • To act together with the public education system, as a priority goal of strengthening basic education, building and disseminating the values ​​of full citizenship.
  • Intensify activities aimed at the development, production and environmental, cultural and artistic preservation, leading to the strengthening of national values ​​and sovereignty.
  • Improve technology and knowledge transfer to the environment.

Inter-institutional cooperation and link with the environment.

• • Achieve a position in the middle to make the University a referential space of the environment where it is inserted.
  • Promote binding agreements with Universities and other Institutions and generate with them Programs and / or Projects of concrete and measurable cooperation over time.
  • Strengthen the participation of the University in inter-institutional networks and consolidate action policies within them.
  • Deepen relations with companies and institutions in order to strengthen their link with the productive sector.

Institutional management

Optimize resource allocation.

• • Strategically analyze the investments of the institution.
  • Ensure efficient spending.
  • Promote the optimization of existing resources.
  • Guarantee sustainability in all actions of the University.

Manage the information.

• • Maintain and strengthen the University's own management model.
  • Promote continuous improvement of the management system for decision making.
  • Strengthen internal communication.
  • Use information as a means of control.

Institutionalize student care.

• • To promote the constant improvement of the academic and administrative attention of the current and potential student.
  • Continuously assess the student's attention.
  • Intensify the bonding of students with students from other universities.
  • Give greater relevance to the Department of Students and Graduates.
  • Improve the University website in support of the student.

Well-being of non-teaching staff.

• • Promote the training of human resources.
  • Promote recreational and cultural activities.
  • Identify, together with the University dependencies, the personnel needs, in accordance with the institutional policy.
  • Keep the job profiles of the administrative staff updated.