• The anniversary program provides a wide variety of activities organized to reflect on the present times and to plan the future of the University.
• The activities, scheduled for July and August, were started with a set of conferences devoted to the topic “Amores Indígenas” and the award ceremony for the University Social Responsibility certification.
• “In this program for the 165th Anniversary, we would like to highlight the contribution that our University has made to the country and to our culture. For this reason, we are focused on outreach activities, in which the community is invited to actively participate,” Sergio González, Vice President of Outreach and Engagement, said.

With more than twenty reflection, academic and artistic activities, our University readies itself to celebrate as of this week its 165 years of history contributing to our country.

The program for the anniversary, coordinated by the Vice Presidency of Outreach and Engagement, includes several activities starting on July the 1st until the end of August.

 “We want this occasion to be emblematic for all the community as it is a positive key moment for our University, not only because we celebrate 165 years of the foundation of the School of Arts and Crafts, but also because this anniversary coincides with the institutional accreditation process and the University President election process,” Vice President González said.

In the campus, it is possible to perceive a feeling of interest in the future of our University, what provides a favorable context to develop reflection and discussion activities about future plans.

“The activities are arranged in the context of our institutional reflection and are concentrated in a program that will be developed in July and August and maybe part of September; they are artistic and cultural activities of recollection and reflection,” Vice President González said. He added that idea is that these actions help to value our University’s historical heritage and its contribution since its foundation to the development of our country.

“This why the program is focused on outreach activities, in which we invite the community to actively participate,” the Vice President said.

For his part, Jorge Montealegre, Director of the Outreach Department and Coordinator of the Anniversary Program, explained that the schedule for the activities was built from the proposals submitted by the different academic units.

“We offer an outlook of the University’s activities that range from the debate on our hallmark in our research activities; to the traditional artistic expressions of musical groups, and to seminars like the set of conferences devoted to the analysis of indigenous people love expressions,” Director Montealegre said.

“It is not a nostalgic program- Director Montealegre explained- but a live one, that faces this 165 years looking at the present times and planning the future based on our reflections. The program is an invitation for people to get involved and participate.”

Director Montealegre added that, among the anniversary activities, there are two contests to which all the university community is invited to participate: The “Nuestra Historia en 165 Imágenes” Photography Contest and the “Tenemos Cuento” Micro-fiction Story Contest. In the latter, our University community’s children are also invited to participate.

We invite you to check the program and celebrate the 165 years of our University.

165th Anniversary Program.
http://www.usach.cl/aniversario

Photography Contest.
http://www.usach.cl/165imagenes

Micro-fiction Contest.
http://www.usach.cl/tenemoscuento


Translated by Marcela Contreras