This initiative seeks to accompany and encourage students so that they can finish their university studies.
La Universidad Nacional de Rosario presented “REGRESAR”, a program that seeks to accompany students so that they can complete their university studies, in addition to strengthening promotion and increasing graduation rates in the different degree programs of the University.
This program is part of one of the objectives agreed upon in the UNR 2030 Agenda, within the priority line: Academic Excellence and Curricular Development. It implies the realization of qualitative studies that observe the student trajectories with the objective of knowing how the transit of the students through the different academic units is, especially those that have a higher level of shelling and lower graduation rates.
This new UNR device is presented as a complement to the retention, promotion and graduation programs and policies that are already being developed, whose purpose is to address socioeconomic, academic and adaptation to university life problems.
“We designed a solid and priority academic strategy to guarantee not only the right to access higher education, but also the effective possibility of going through this journey and finishing it. This program will be an articulation of the areas of Academics, Statistics and Computing of our University together with the teams of the 12 Faculties", commented the rector Franco Bartolacci, adding: "We want to accompany our students in this transition so that they can finish their university studies. For this reason, if for various reasons 30% of the degree you studied is owed, if you only need the thesis, if you did not take subjects for ten years, or if you simply want to resume your degree, we invite everyone to come back to the UNR.
Among the general objectives proposed: increase the graduation rate, reduce dropout rates in higher years, and promote retention and regular progress in the academic trajectories of UNR students.
In addition, it will seek to identify the causes of desertion, abandonment and slowdown of graduation, in order to promote, through various means, the regular advancement and graduation of students.
The Rector remarked that this is a great opportunity and appreciated the collective effort to put this project into operation. “We are going for a real integration, which we will enhance with all our existing academic strengths. We are going for policies that deepen those that we have been carrying out from University Welfare, from the Student Guidance Department, and from the Academic Area. For those of us who are convinced that higher education is not a service or a privilege, but rather a right, there is no higher priority task than advancing in this direction”.
The program will pay special attention to students who have left their academic career and owe 30% of the degree and/or who have yet to complete their final project or thesis to graduate, or who have not regularized/approved any subject in the last ten years. of all UNR degree courses. They will be summoned gradually and progressively, according to the pending subjects, study plans, careers, and Faculties.
“Every conquest is always collective. For this reason, the success of this initiative and its long-term permanence cannot be achieved without the effort, responsibility, and involvement of the entire UNR community: students, teachers, graduates, non-teaching staff, and management teams," highlighted the person in charge from the Academic and Learning Area, Romina Pérez.
If you are interested in resuming your university studies or you want more information about the REGRESAR Program, we invite you to fill out the following form: https://bit.ly/UNRrEGRESAR
Journalist: Gonzalo J. García/Photographer: Karen Roeschlin