Historia institucional de la Facultad de Ciencias y Educación

Abstract

This work seeks to study, analyze and understand the institutional history of the Faculty of Science and Education of Francisco José de Caldas University, with the study of its administrative, organic and functional evolution during these 50 years of life. Through a qualitative research approach, the lack and ignorance of documentary management in the Faculty is evident; the lack of good archival management has led to a great loss of valuable administrative and historical archives, thus affecting the institutional memory. Therefore, this research documents and summarizes the results, such as the history and the moment of foundation of the Faculty, as well as the birth of each curricular project and the way in which each one manages information over time, in this way identifying the most important historical periods at the time of creation and evolution and periodization of documentary management. For this reason, this study highlights the urgent need to implement a document management system, to train staff and to adopt new information technologies in order to preserve the Faculty's heritage in a complete and efficient way; moreover, it proposes solutions to improve the documentary organization and to strengthen the archival culture within the institution, ensuring that future generations understand and appreciate its history.