Diseño del modelo de gestión del Centro de Apoyo y Desarrollo Educativo Profesional (CADEP) Acacia – piloto UDFJC

Abstract

In some countries of Latin America and the Caribbean, such as Colombia, Peru and Nicaragua, it has been observed that their cultural diversity, religious intolerance, sexual diversity, psychosocial problems, among others, have a great role in the phenomena of desertion and social exclusion that they are presented in Higher Education Institutions (IES). For the Colombian case, according to the latest data (2016) of the System of Prevention and Analysis of Dropout in Higher Education Institutions (SPADIES) - Ministry of National Education, of the students who enter the university, about 20% drop out in the first semester, which may exceed 50% from the beginning to the end of the 10 average semesters that make up a curricular project. Therefore, through co-financing by the Erasmus + Program of the European Union, the ACACIA CADEP Project has been created, understanding the CADEP as centers or organizations that Support, Cultivate, Adapt, Communicate, Innovate and Accept (ACACIA) the experiences , the resources, the equipment, the problems and the solutions that the heIs require for: the professional development of all the members of the educational community; the decrease in student desertion. For this, initially, three pilot centers will be created in the University of the Autonomous Regions of the Nicaraguan Caribbean Coast (URACCAN), for Nicaragua; and the National University of San Marcos, for Peru; and for Colombia, the Francisco José de Caldas District University (UDFJC), where it will be implemented under the name of "CADEP Acacia - Piloto UDFJC" which requires the articulation of its management model with the integrated system of the Francisco José District University from Caldas.