2023-07-01 11:52:15
The Central University of Venezuela (UCV), the oldest in the country, has a new rector for the period 2023-2027. This is Professor Victor Rago, who was the winner in the second round of elections for authorities in the house of studies.
The results were announced at dawn on Saturday, July 1, through the website of the UCV Electoral Commission. With 80% of the votes counted, Rago leads the candidate Humberto Rojas.
According to information disseminated through social networks, Rago obtained his victory supported above all by the professorial vote. The faculties of Economic and Social Sciences, known as Faces, where he obtained wide support.
The UCV administrative quartet is now made up of Fátima Garcés, as academic vice-rector; José Balbino León, as administrative vice-rector; and Corina Aristimuño, as Secretary.
So far, there are close to 80% of the tally sheets and the UCV put online the possibility of consulting the results of the electoral process.
Rago is 75 years old, he is an anthropologist, researcher and doctor in Linguistics. His candidacy for the rectorate was supported by the Academic Consensus board. According to the electoral schedule, the swearing-in act is established from Monday, July 17 to Friday, July 21 of this year.
Thus ends the management period of Professor Cecilia García Arocha, the first woman to hold the highest position of authority within the university. With Rago’s victory, the UCV officially renews its authorities, following spending fifteen years without holding those elections.
Who is Victor Rago?
Víctor Rago Albujar, was born in San Juan Bautista de Espino, Guárico state, on April 21, 1948. He graduated as a graduate of the Central University of Venezuela and later obtained a diploma in Hispanic Philology at the University of Salamanca and a doctorate in linguistics at the Sorbonne University of Paris.
He has worked for more than 40 years at the UCV, first as a professor at the School of Anthropology, the School of Letters and the Doctorate in Social Sciences of the institution. He was also editor of the Linguistics Bulletin published by the university and co-founder of the Interfaculty Cooperation Program (PCI).
He held the position of director of the School of Anthropology from 1987 to 1993 and later served as coordinator la la Faculty of Economic and Social Sciences (Faces) (1993-1999). In 1999 he became dean of that faculty until 2008. In 2015 he won the Francisco de Venanzi award for the career of a university researcher, in the area of Social Sciences.
Finally, since 2015 he was a member and president of the evaluation body of the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage Convention. Likewise, she represented Venezuela in the Latin American Catalog of Social Anthropology Theses Working Group.
He made public his candidacy for the rectory of the UCV at the beginning of 2023, was a candidate on June 9 and went to the second round with 22.78% of the votes.
The proposals of the new rector
According to the management plan of the new rector of the UCV and the interviews granted to firewood effectamong the priorities of its management are:
The design of a «spectrum of training modalities» within the existing careers (short professionalization, specific certifications according to the requests of the world of work, diplomas, accreditations by experience or credentials and other qualifications).
Transform libraries and documentation centers an updated source of support for knowledge management for the training of talent and research, in the environment of bimodality as an institutional approach.
A university-government negotiation around the university budget, showing the formation of talents and research results, but also the technological and cultural offer of the university as a counterpart to the solution of problems that afflict the country.
Develop a policy to stimulate interconnection with other national and international social actors, such as the government; other universities and technology centers, companies and financial entities, as well as the entire fabric of community organizations.
Define and adopt policies that stimulate student participation in research activities, extension and social articulation, services to the community or to public and private companies, as a point of support for their learning and training process, as well as for early encouragement to research.
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