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RectorMayor General EDUARDO ANTONIO HERRERA BERBEL

Vicerrector GeneralBrigadier General ALBERTO BRAVO SILVA

Vicerrector AdministrativoDoctora SONIA ESTHER OSPINO GÓMEZ

Vicerrectora AcadémicaDoctora MARTHA LUCÍA BAHAMÓN JARA

Vicerrectora de InvestigacionesDoctora JAQUELINE BLANCO BLANCO

Vicerrector del CampusBrigadier General HÉCTOR EDUARDO PEÑA PORRAS

University Brief

History

To create a Military University was not an easy task.

Its preliminary conception can be located in 1942, when the

National Education Ministry approved high school studies for

officers in the Military Forces training institutes.

Twenty years later, in 1962, by Decree 2422, the Jose

Maria Cordova Cadets Military School started a higher education

cycle with the Economics, Civil Engineering, International Law

and Diplomacy. These were addressed for cadets and second

lieutenants belonging to the last two years of professional

training.

But the commotion

in educational sectors took

special shape and dimensions

after a comment was published

in the Army Magazine, edition

corresponding to January – March,

1976, written by general Luis Carlos

Camacho Leyva, reason, nerve and

origin of our University:

“It has been a constant concern of the military

command the procurement of the improvement of groups of

officers and sub-officers in every and all the professional levels.

As a consequence with that policy, general sir Abraham Varon

Valencia, Defense Minister, ordered to study the possibility

to establish an adequate organization more or less six years

ago. This in order to military staff to complete the university

knowledge that they are currently receiving…”

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These words unleashed a real verbal storm in the

communication media at that time, which reached the top

levels during the months of April, May and June of 1976. It

started in “El Tiempo” Newspaper on April the 4th, highlighting

that “the army announced yesterday the creation of a Night

National University in order to train not only the military but also

civilians.” On the 15th day of that month, the same newspaper

reported: “General Camacho Leyva answers the critics made

to the project of creation of a Military University by professors

Gerardo Molina and Luis Carlos Perez, who were presidents of

the Colombia National University, which as closed two weeks

ago by the government. Mr. Camacho also announced that in

the Military University there will be no strikes.”

By taking a party against the initial idea, “El Tiempo”

Newspaper made an editorial on May the 3rd of said year: “With

our Armed Forces we do have an unpayable debt. Due to their

spirit of sacrifice, their tireless work in fighting violence. But that

combination that is intended to be the rectors of a university

youth group is not convenient”

On the 8th of that same month, said newspaper wrote

over that topic: “The government cannot create a Military

University by executive decision, said yesterday the Education

Minister Mr. Hernando Duran Dussan.”

On the next May the 11, El Tiempo published the

news: “Despite all unfavorable criticisms and comments, the

Military University opened inscription yesterday for young

people aspiring to have higher education in its classrooms. The

high commands of the Armed Forces announced their purpose

of starting academic labors from the next July the 5th on.”

On that month May there was a great controversy.

On the 6th day, “El Espectador” Newspaper commented. “The

working of a Military University shall not demand expenses from

the Nation, since the main idea is that this university should be

sustained by their own income.”

On the 10th of the same month, Mr. Alonso Aragon

Quintero wrote in “El Pueblo” newspaper:

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“With the project of that Military University they are

making a pharisaic scandal and a storm in a glass of water,

because in addition to creating places that shall be well and

seriously organized for sure, the university law training for

officers, far from being a hazard, it shall reassert the traditional

respect that the armed forces should have for the lawful rules,

legitimate institutions and the democratically expressed will of

the Colombian people.”

On the 11 of May, “El Colombiano” Newspaper

reported: “General Varon Valencia explained that since 1962,

by Decree 2422, the Military University creation was approved.

Initially, it shall accept army officers, the same as their children

and close relatives. Said general pointed out that last year said

decree was updated, and by a new one, the 1764 decree issued

in 1975, some of its sections were amended to be better fit into

the current reality.”

On the 12th of May, in “El Espectador” Newspaper,

Mr. Gerardo Molina wrote: “We are total supporters to the idea

that members of the Armed Forces to receive higher education,

but the right thing is to go to the already existent universities in

order to share their living with civilians and see the Colombian

reality from a wider perspective.”

On May the 13th, El Tiempo newspaper published: “As

to the project of the Military University, Minister Duran has been

logical and precise at explaining which the legal order limitations

are that make impossible the working of an entity with such a

character that has been announced from some of the military

commands.”

On May the 15th there was another heading on El

Tiempo newspaper: “Inevitably and due to their counted logical

and pedagogical steps, there is a conclusion reached that the

guilt of a Military University is due to the absolute failure of the

National and Civilian University.”

On the 18th of said month there were two comments

in the same newspaper. One signed by Andres Holguin:

“Military University? More than a juridical mistake, I think it is a

practical one. To appoint more duties to the Armed Forces does

not make them more important, but on the contrary, these put

them away from their specific duties.” The other comment was

written by Luis Carlos Galan: “As to the topic of debate itself,

I believe this portraits many things: First of all the realities of

Armed Forces that are evolving with modern spirit and they

have interest in strengthening their human teams from the

intellectual and scientific approaches.”

Next day, “La Republica” newspaper stated: “We

consider it is of great importance for the future of this country,

specially its new generations, the initiative of establishing a new

university in which the love and respect spirits for authentic

national values are not substituted by wrath statements that

are recited as litanies of submission to political systems that are

alien to our motherland.”

This was maybe an answer to what Mr. Luis Carlos

Perez had released on May the 17th in Alternativa Magazine:

“The Military University as announced by the top commands of

the army has the unquestionable intent to substitute the public

university. It will be a regime for students and professors to teach

them in the policies of submission within the hierarchical system

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as set by the armed forces; the voice of command comes from

the upper position and those in the lower positions have no

other mission than obeying. This Military University shall be the

biggest danger for democracy in Colombia.”

To continue the controversy, on May the 20th, “El

Espectador” newspaper published a note by Hernando Giraldo:

“Military University, as strict as disciplined, shall be the best

answer to chaos and anarchy that are prevailing in the state

universities.”

That same day, Victor Sanchez Montenegro wrote in

“La Republica” newspaper:

“It is undoubtedly noticeable that University is

intended to complete and not be created out of nothing, since

those schools exist more than 8 years ago, but only with 2

years studies. It would be a warranty of success due to their

special professors, the military complete discipline and the best

laboratories in this Capital city.”

Next day, the editorials of “El Correo” newspaper

wrote: “Nobody would neglect that students from a university

of such a nature would constitute a selected and privileged

group that would give way to the formation of a true and real

caste, in the strict and real sense of that word. And we do not

want to see our Colombian nation making its way to the future

on the basis of the formation of castes that would sow social

and governmental instabilities.”

These are just some of the samples of controversies

generated and unleashed by the comment by general Camacho

Leyva, due to the fact that politicians, educators and general

people took a party whether in favor or against that idea. Of

course, president Alfonso Lopez Michelsen was the owner of

the last word, and he said it so on the first of June, 1976, in a

speech in the Cadets Military School:

“Would it be maybe that officers belong to a category

of citizens who shall not be granted the same knowledge as the

rest of their fellow country people? Then after, he reiterated that

“Colombia does not need their governments to have an army of

trust, it is enough to trust the army.”

After this, we would like to quote the news published

in “El Tiempo” newspaper on July the 6th of 1976: “In a simple

act presided by the army commander, general Luis Carlos

Camacho Leyva, in the theater of the Cadets Military School, the

academic night activities were started yesterday for the schools

of Engineering, Economics and Law in the Military University.”

One year later, the creation of the Medicine Military

School was structured, attached to the Military Hospital, and

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Esta era la maqueta inicial de los edificios de la sede Calle 100, de la cual, solo se cons-truyeron los bloques de las facultafdes y el edificio administrativo. 1982

Plazoleta complejo “José Celestino Mutis”, Facultad de Ciencias, sede Campus Nueva Granada. 2012

later this would be called the School of Medicine and Health

Sciences. It started working on the first semester of 1979.

With the Law – Decree 84, issued on January the 23rd of

1980, signed by president Julio Cesar Turbay Ayala, Education

minister Rodrigo Lloreda Caicedo, and Defense minister, general

Camacho Leyva, the Military University started totally its

institutional development phase.

During the further years, this University consolidated.

Order, discipline, professors’ qualities, absence of strikes,

seriousness and national and international projection of its

studies were giving it an important place in the development of

higher education in this country. On July the 23rd of 1982, this

university acquired the legal juridical framework of organization

with Decrees 754 and 2288. The National Education Ministry,

by Decision N° 12975 issued on the same date, acknowledges

its character as University. This act was consolidated on August

the 15th of 1985 by Executive Decree N° 2273, in which states

that “this is a university institution and it shall continue with its

professional programs in university training in areas of health

sciences, engineering, economics, law and other that are

considered by the Directive Board as they are deemed convenient

in such a training and advanced one. All this pursuant to the

legal regulations in force.”

Afterwards, with the Law 30 of 1992, the public

service of Higher Education was organized in this country and

the Military University was acknowledged in section 137 as a

Special Administrative Unit. This was completed with Law 805

of April the 11th of 2003, which sets the Nueva Granada Military

University as a “legal entity with academic, administrative and

financial autonomy, with an independent real estate, capabilities

to govern itself, appoint its own authorities, make and manage

its budget in compliance to the duties corresponding to said

university and issue rules and regulations pursuant to this law.”

In summary, on July the 5th of 1976 there were 62

students registered, and classes started in 3 classrooms provided

by the Military School for the 3 initial learning programs. Today,

this University has more than 16,000 students. Its academic offer

covers almost all and every branch of knowledge, it has more

than 100 options between specializations, diploma courses

and master’s courses apart from the undergraduate programs

and it has three sites: Calle 100 with special classrooms in its

five floors, laboratories, systems and language centers, general

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management offices and the several offices appointed for schools

or faculties, a chapel, gym, a main lecture hall, parking lots, sport

courts, cafeterias, food court, interior park, bookstore, and all of

the elements for university wellbeing. The Calle 49 site where

there is the School of Medicine, with classroom buildings and

special services, and a new laboratories building, resuscitation

and simulation rooms with state-of-the art technology, and the

Cajica site, with 85 acres in the savannah, extended green areas

and water sources, big classrooms, halls, comfortable buildings,

experiment laboratories for all of the majors offered there and

an special transport service in a train for its students, professors

and representatives.

Academic

Programs

Started on July the 5th of 1976 with the programs

of Engineering, Economics and Law, this University has the

following programs at the moment:

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This University continues making permanent

diversifications, updating, assimilating and processing the world,

science, development changes, the human being problems and

their surroundings. It is this way that with its undergraduate

and graduate programs, the Nueva Granada Military University,

with its three reflection, studies, discipline and culture sites,

responds to the current needs and forecasts those that we are

barely imagining.

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Vision, Mission, Codes and

Institutional Policies

By traveling throughout some of the pages of the

Institutional Educational Project, which is our compass orienting

and identifying us, we find aspects that are worth to highlight,

for the reasons to be understood in de development of the

Nueva Granada Military University, which in less than 30 years

of existence has reached a projection transcending not only the

borders of time but also the geographic coordinates.

Vision

The Nueva Granada Military University shall be

acknowledged due to its high quality and excellence in

international and national environments in the promotion

of reflection, creativity, continuous learning, research and

innovation from a global perspective. This in compliance to the

social responsibilities that allow to foresee, propose and develop

solutions answering to the needs of the society and the Defense

sector.

Mission

The Nueva Granada Military University is a national

order public institution developing duties of teaching, research

and extension. It promotes the dialog of knowledge, academic

community construction, and permanent self-assessment of

institutional processes in the context of a global world; this in

order to form integral and socially responsible citizens promoting

justice, equity and respect for human values. They shall also

contribute to the progress of the Defense sector and the general

society.

The Codes

The three Codes ruling the behaviors of the neo-grenadine

educational community are specific, and they have been being

applied in a rigorous manner for this University to be a discipline

environment. This should be understood within ethics and

always in search for having enough guarantees for students,

who are the excellence targets of our efforts.

Moral – Ethical Code:

l. Accomplish with the Nueva Granada Military University

Mission and Institutional Educational Project.

2. Respect and obey all and any of the internal and external

regulations in place in our University institution:

3. To promote excellence;

4. To act with honesty and transparency in performing all of

our activities and duties;

5. To promote the sense of belonging and loyalty with the

Nueva Granada academic community;

6. To guarantee equity, pluralism and respect for others;

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7. To report corruption in all and any of its manifestations;

8. To promote the rendering of a high quality and efficiency

service;

9. Top put the general interest of this institution before and

above any personal consideration;

10. To keep our slogan upright: “For Science, Motherland and

Family”

Code of the Nueva Granada Professors:

l. To be a model of academic, professional and personal

identity, and have an open mind to other knowledge;

2. To teach with rigor, honesty and intellectual competence

the appointed subjects;

3. To assume a fair attitude towards the students;

4. To instill a social sense and love for motherland;

5. To update and improve their own academic and professional

performance;

6. To put institutional interests before the personal ones.

7. To favor the student’s free development with basis on

ethics and moral in order to guarantee the integral training

processes;

8. To promote dialog between students by procuring the search

of truth and discussing and participative communication;

9. To promote a critical and argumentative sense in students;

10. To stimulate creativity in students about educational

research processes.

The Nueva Granada Students Honor Code:

l. To meet rules, regulations, standards and other laws issued

by this University in a strict manner.

2. To obey and faithfully comply with this code, which implies

a sense of honor;

3. To keep a live commitment to ethics, moral and honesty.

This implies the rejection to the drug consumption and / or

distribution, alcoholism and fraud in evaluations amongst

others.

4. To keep a personal attire and presentation in compliance to

the institutional rules, in search to prompt dressing customs

according to the academic and labor environments

demands.

5. To provide absolute respect for this University, its symbols,

authorities, its officials, professors and classmates.

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Policies

“The Nueva Granada Military University constitution

has three sacred foundations:”

Science, Motherland and Family

We acknowledge Science as a way of social

consciousness that constitutes a knowledge system about

nature, society and thinking. These represent a reflection of the

laws of the objective world in a fashion of concepts, symbol

systems, judgments and theories, amongst other forms.

We acknowledge Motherland as a crucible that melts

us all in the same past, present and future. For that reason, we

state our height nationality.

We acknowledge Family as the society’s identification

and the roots of education. For such a reason, we do respect it.

In a world threatening to tear apart, we raise our faith

in spiritual values. We believe in liberty within order, we believe

in law and culture. From there, there comes our unbreakable

decision of service.

On the other hand, the specific University policies can

be considered in five dimensions as follows:

Philosophical Dimension:

This is oriented towards the being of this University in

the teleological aspect. It issues the Principles and Values giving

orientation to the Institutional Educational Project; they provide

the judgment elements in order to locate the whole university

community within the axiology field and they include, amongst

others, bio-ethics and human rights.

Pedagogical Dimension

It covers the specificities of disciplines and scientific

erudition related to the nature of the academic programs with

their corresponding studies plans. This goes up to the teaching –

learning in research, scientific research, university extension and

links to the surroundings. It is oriented to specific actions related

to the students, professors and supporting staff actions in

education. It issues the reference frameworks of methodologies

and use of didactics; likewise resources and educational means

in order to reach the educational purposes.

Juridical Dimension

They present before the inner educational community,

a democratic consensus structuring our educational system.

It also presents the national society, not only the methodic

adoption of prevailing rules, but also the legitimate interpretation

done by this University of its own existence.

Sociological Dimension

It issues the directives that shall be followed in order to

give social pertinence to the institutional activities, and pay-back

its environment for the consolidated knowledge and incorporate

it into the society; this with the continuous improvement of the

life quality of its population by exercising a real impact upon the

Colombian society.

Management Dimension

It constitutes the guidelines for permanent actions

and quality for each planning, assessment, management and

support duties in creating the instruments of the Institutional

Educational Project.

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On the other hand, the University principles could be

summarized as follows:

l.- University Autonomy

It is understood from the institutional nature with the

possibilities of determining its pathways and actions.

When giving its own rules and regulations, it allows to re-

think about its commitments, to define priorities, to self-

determine and rule itself with proper and independent

authority from the acknowledgement of the restraints as

held in the laws.

2.- Academic Excellence and Quality

Commitment to reach institutional goals beyond the

results measurement. This is based on the need of self

transformation and self regulation transversal to the

University every day activities. Therefore, this is translated

into a more equitable and egalitarian society.

3.- Universality

It makes possible the access of the best talents to their

programs, professors and researchers as representatives

and students. This makes no distinction in ethnics, sex,

race or social conditions, whereby promotes the cultural

exchange between peoples in order to benefit our society

and the human species.

4.- Social Responsibility

It is an institutional commitment to deliver respectful

professionals of the Colombian culture to the society. They

shall be also competent and suitable; committed to the

solution of national problems. All these suppose an effort

by this University in developing social practice during the

students teaching stages and it commits the University

system.

5.- Democracy

It is a pluralist and supportive mechanism that looks to

promote participation in order to reach a consensus in

relations and conquests by the University community

for the common wellbeing. It is based on the validity of

arguments and the legitimacy of rights, duties, guarantees

and commitments of an organized society.

6.- Sustainability

It is a responsibility to generate environmental, economical

and social benefits from the generation of knowledge and

proposals that allow reducing poverty and social exclusion

from the social participation; this in order to re-building a

feasible, equitable society by respecting the ecosystems

equilibrium.

7.- Transparency

Supply enough, truthful, precise and permanent information

to the public in such a way that it is understood without

any doubt or ambiguity; this without committing the

strategic options or technical secrets of this Organization.

Transparency shall allow the shareholders to get to know

about structures, policies, rules, and decision processes in

this Entity, above all, in all those aspects that could affect

them.

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8.- Planning

It is a dynamic process by which this University identifies

what it would like to carry out in short, mid and long terms,

by procuring to use available human and material resources

in a rational way.

9.- Self – Regulation

It is a capacity by the Nueva Granada community to self-

regulate in a democratic and participative manner with the

possibility of self-assessment in a critical and reflexive way.

This would allow continuous improvement in Institutional

projects and processes.

10.- Cooperation

It is the possibility to set alliances with people, entities

and institutions whether these are academic, cultural or

scientific in the national and international order; this with

the purpose of sharing services, resources and transferring

knowledge making an easier dialog between peers.

The goal is to integrate and solve the needs of a set of

institutions or human organized groups under the modality

of networks procuring complementary elements and

continuous improvement.

ll.- Internationalization

It is a process allowing the collaboration between programs,

research professors, extension, wellbeing and management

together with other national and international institutions.

This is to qualify, achieve scientific advance and favor

development and institutional perfection. This makes

international projection possible as imperative of a modern

University and therefore the Nueva Granada Military

University.

We end this round of Institutional Educational Project

(PEI) by highlighting institutional values accepted by educators

and education analysts, they are the ones giving us orientation:

l.- Ethical Values: Understood as acts or products that

mankind can acknowledge as theirs, this means, those

made consciously and freely, respect to which a moral

responsibility could be attributed.

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2.- Sense of belonging: Conceived as the ability for construction

and exercise of the modern citizenship, where multiple

convergence points and social mobilization are found in a

conscious manner.

3.- Institutional Commitment: Assumed as the exercise of

responsibility with the purpose of establishing the basis to

overcome disparity and transform the sets of society from

education.

4.- Leadership: Positive influence upon peoples and / or groups

by forecasting the future and contributing to their personal

and professional development.

5.- Justice: Set of relations by which the acknowledgment

of the particularities and differences invites us to think in

equality in everyday life.

6.- Equity: Principle that creates equilibrium between

differences and objectivity about which there is a question:

What is the desirable and fair equality? Or on the contrary,

what is the unbearable and unfair inequality? It is the ethical

and moral dimension of difference that is issued whenever

they are negative and unfair.

7.- Aesthetic and Affective Values: Need of all human beings

to develop and build a balanced personality; this in order to

mitigate inequalities that marginalize, exclude and provoke

violence in any of their expressions.

8.- Responsibility: Moral charges and / or obligations that arise

in a subject and makes him / her to commit consciously

in a fact that could be attributed and judged due to the

consequences generated by such a fact.

9.- Honesty: A personal value that has a close relationship with

the truth, justice and moral integrity principles. Since an

individual is a being of relationships, this makes him / her

to put the truth before all of his / her thoughts, expressions

and / or actions. From the individual character, this is

manifested whenever him / herself expresses a degree of

significant self-consciousness and is coherent with what he

/ she thinks.

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The Symbols

The Name:

Mr. Jose Manuel Fula Torres, secretary of the

School of Law during the initial years recounts the end of a

search and some deliberations in order to give a name to our

Educational Institution:

“It was maybe year

1980, and general Hernando

Currea Cubides, President of

this University, was looking for

a good name for this institution,

since it was working many years

ago as a University Institute and

it hadn’t been baptized yet.

For this reason, the president

proposed a meeting with deans and school secretaries in

order to look for an adequate name that represented what

actually was the proposal with this studies entity. There were

several names proposed and “Nueva Granada” (New Grenade)

prevailed. This was proposed by the National Defense Minister

in that time, general Luis Carlos Camacho Leyva.”

Undoubtedly to call this university that way, there

were several historical facts that were taken into account:

Lawyer don Gonzalo Jimenez de Quesada, son of also

lawyer Luis Jimenez de Quesada and doña Isabel Rivera, was

born in Granada, Spain, year 1495. In that city, his father was

a judge.

Granada has been a crucial city throughout the years

in Spain history, not only because it remained in the power of

Moorish hands during many years, but also because of the

Reconquest marking times of glory for the Spaniard Catholic

Kings.

Don Gonzalo named this land “the good land, a land

that puts an end to our sorrow”, the New Kingdom of Grenade.

This was due to the abundance of harvests and the progresses

made by its primitive inhabitants.

Spanish Emperor Charles V, by mean of the Royal

Decree issued on April the 29th of 1717 created the vice regal

institution. The third viceroyalty was for the New Grenade.

In 1811, after the declaration of Independence, the

Nueva Granada United Provinces were the ones pleading for

unity and for their determination to consolidate freedom.

The name of Nueva Granada was kept until 1857,

when during the presidency by Mr. Mariano Ospina Rodriguez it

was changed to the Grenadine Great Confederation.

Hence, Nueva Granada has historical connotations in

a great scope and the Spanish tradition and the ways it was

moved and modified into the New World lands are melted in

that name.

The Anthem:

Mr. Jose Manuel Fula Torres took himself charge to write the

anthem of the recently named University. The Directive Board

approved in whole. The music was composed by Luis Vicente

Rojas and orchestration was made by the Presidential Guard

Battalion.

Said anthem has a chorus and four stanzas:

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CHORUS

With praise grenadines let’s sing

This immortal glory anthem

And at the feet of the Cross let’s put

This University’s laurels

STANZAS

I

Grenadines thou shall follow tempestuous

Our motto of “a healthy Moral”

And thou shall fight valiantly and all joyful

In procuring a noble ideal

II

Let’s flood minds with science

In the classroom that is a rich headlight

And let’s keep our foreheads upfront

Which preludes the triumphant march

III

We directives let’s join and go together

To provide our light and heat

And to Colombia we can proudly say

That a better motherland is rising

IV

Let’s put our foreheads upfront

And fluttering the three-color standard

Let’s sow the rich seeds

On the pathways that take us all to God.

Coat of Arms:

In this University

Coat of Arms, the upper

canton goes in blue –

symbol of serenity and

service -, in the center of this

canton there is a feather –

symbol of knowledge – it is

made out of silver – symbol

of innocence -, and a sword on top – symbol of strength. The

description of such an overlapped symbology obeys to the fact

that in the case of this University the military extends, covers

and protects wisdom.

The other canton goes in gold metal, which additional

to strength, it alludes to faith, purity and perseverance. Right

in the center of that canton there is a grenade with natural

colors. This is a symbol of excellence of everything represented

by this institution. It brings to mind the Hispanic tradition as to

the Spanish Grenade and the New Grenade, which pinpoints a

crucial moment in our history.

On the crest of the mentioned coat of arms, there is

a gules colored ribbon – symbol of intrepidness -. It bears the

name of “Universidad Militar Nueva Granada” (New Grenade

Military University), and immediately beneath, in gold letters,

our motto in Latin language: Scientiae, Patriae, Familiae.

The Flag:

It has blue and golden colors with their meanings

as aforesaid, in the middle of those, there is the coat of arms,

which was already mentioned.

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This flag has been praised with many decorations,

it is the one presiding any and all of the official acts of this

University and the one solemnizing ceremonies and it is ahead

of University parades.

Thus, this University that started in a small classroom

in the Cadets Military School, has now three sites with all of the

state – of – the – art elements as required for the management

of the several majors and programs offered.

The number of students during the past thirty years has

had an astonishing increase, undoubtedly due to its discipline,

the studies quality and its growing international projection.

The difficult start was overcome by far and in this

moment, the New Grenade Military University, by mean of its

processes of self-assessment and institutional accreditation, is

one of the most important of this country.

Being a new grenadier is a reason for pride, as during

the studies period, as in exercising profession. This because

students and graduates mark the achievements of the University

in the present, and the multiple and promising pathways

opening into the future that is also the one for Colombia, and of

course, the goal of the world.

Foundations:

We would like to insist on sacred foundations, the

pillars the New Grenade Military University builds its educational

policies on, bases its national and international projection, holds

its ideas of a permanent search for academic and administrative

excellence, and it has become into one of the best alternatives

for its alumni to be able to build a future prospect worth of a

fraternity and peaceful world. Such foundations have been very

clear from the moment of the University conception:

SCIENCE, because the goal of mankind is always

search for solving enigmas, answers to questions, and go

forward on the pathways through studying to understanding

the universe and themselves.

MOTHERLAND because every and all people have the

need of a place where to grow, to dream, to live and die, a

piece of soil that he / she feels as his / hers, a country to respect

and defend, where these people know their roots and their

ancestors are deeply located.

And FAMILY because they are the embrace protecting

us, the surroundings where we start to know about life, the link

that joins us and identifies us, the affection circle guaranteeing

understanding and forgiveness.

In summary, we could state that the New Grenade Military

University wants is students:

1.- Have in it a favorable environment for the best

development of their potential as possible. Respect for

human dignity implying that this Institution guarantees the

creation of conditions and circumstances for every and all

students have the opportunity to perform their ideals and

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expectations. Therefore, the three university campuses

have all of the technical and scientific state-of-the-art items

in laboratories, machinery and equipments, additionally

with wide spaces for exercising learning to be comfortable,

efficient and appealing.

2.- To attain, in agreement to their drives, abilities and human

and academic qualities, the best required conditions for

their normal professional development. This is supported

by the University with an adequate, highly trained,

responsible, respectful teaching team group, who knows

how to lead students through the knowledge pathways

and project them into the universal level as required by an

every time more open and wider world.

3.- To be critical, constructive and creative for

introducing new proposals as they are in regard

to transformation and overcoming reality. For

this reason, the University promotes

and encourages research

processes in every and all of their

majors. This University holds

projects of young researchers

with experienced ones. The

former would be able to attain

results receiving international

acknowledge with their ideas and

work.

4.- To acquire creative attitudes making a dynamic

intellectual curiosity so that students are led to take

edifying and constructive approaches before the historical

evolution of culture. This is why reading, understanding,

writing and oral expressions are promoted without

forgetting the technological development as to new ways

of communication allowing a dynamic knowledge of the

surrounding world.

5.- To develop a great service, solidarity

and commitment senses towards their

communities so that all of their members

be able to empower and embody authentic

patriotic ideals, which are fundamental in

civil law ethics and moral. These all would be

promoted through legal counseling practices,

health brigades and several other activities, in

which the undergraduate students share and

extend their knowledge throughout different

social media in the country.

6.- To be open to pluralist and tolerant

dialog in favor of a peaceful share living.

This University insists specially with an open

free cathedra, symposiums, encounters,

summits, seminars and conferences by

scientific, political, historian and human

lecturers with different ideologies and

trends.

7.- To access the spiritual dynamics

of human beings in order to be

subjects able to critically overcome

material trends that are typical of a

consumption society. For this to be

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carried out, there are neither forbidden or taboo topics nor

ideology obligations. This because it is deemed as necessary

that students have access to all kinds of knowledge in order

to be able to build their own spiritual values, and an open

and multiple personal conception of the world.

Profiles

Profile of the new grenade university professor

The Nueva Granada professors, in their everyday

life create, apply and promote their knowledge to analyze and

solve social problems. They shape professional citizens, science,

integral men and women. Professors practice an ethics of

action and communication. At the same time they are project

managers, cultural cheerleaders devoted to reflection and

development of education in their discipline knowledge in order

to achieve optimal learning in their learners. They promote

creative and critical thinking development. They go together

with students on their way throughout our Alma Mater.

In their hands there is the creation of scenarios and

environments to promote transcendence of human beings in

personal, social and professional lines with transparency and life

projection into the future. All that by showing to their students

other realities allowing them to reflect, think and make decisions

about the existence itself and the commitment to society

through concrete actions deriving in a sustainable human

development.

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Nueva Granada Professors Skills

In consideration to the dimensions presented in

accordance to the Human, Academic, Teaching and Researching

areas, next we would like to introduce the skills developed or to

be developed by a Nueva Granada professor during his / her job

activities. These are as follows:

From the human dimension understood as knowing

to be, professors shall demonstrate their integral training. As

to ethical principles, and institutional values such as justice,

equality, social responsibility and a high humanist sense, the

Nueva Granada professors shall be identified due to their

leadership and initiatives before problem situations.

In relation to the ways to relate to each other,

professors shall generate favorable, collaboration environment

with their co-workers, whereby they all respect ideas and

different approaches; they act with flexibility before facts and

uncertainty, and finally, they all shall show a high sense of

belonging to this University Institution.

KNOWING TO BE: Human Dimension

The academic dimension is acknowledged by the

professor’s skills to keep up to date in the advances in his / her

discipline, profession or trade, and at the same time, his / her

abilities of self-learning. In that sense, he / she shall show his /

her competences in knowledge to teach. This gives foundation

to their epistemological and procedural principles. Professors

shall promote the creation and innovation in their disciplines

and knowledge; they shall support their ideas, statements and

approaches with real and valid arguments. In general, during

the performance of their teaching labors, they shall provide a

context in knowledge provided to the area, the region and the

Country, all this by keeping in mind the international education

trends. Their analysis abilities shall allow them to solve scientific

and social problem situations.

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KNOWLEDGE TO LEARN: Academic Dimension

The Teaching Dimension is based on the release of

findings through research in their area of knowledge. Professors

shall do this whether individually or in association. In regard to

the communication of their knowledge, professors within their

pedagogical and educational activities, provide orientation to

learners in their learning and the human being formation. This is

done in a profession from a specific area of domain knowledge.

The Nueva Granada Professor shall be knowledgeable and apply

the several pedagogical approaches, assessment models and

didactic strategies and also, he / she shall reflect upon those in

order to improve them.

Likewise, professors shall make pedagogical use of

information, communication techniques. As a consequence, he

/ she shall encourage students continuously to the use of such

tools and techniques and promotes the integral development of

students as members of a community and profession, in which

sooner or later, this student shall become a peer.

KNOW TO DO: Teaching Dimension

Research Dimension is founded on problem solving,

generation and promotion of knowledge. At a basic level,

this dimension is founded in orientations and advice given for

graduation works, also by promoting research incubators. In

an upper stage there is evidence in knowledge production

and promotion for social and scientific acquisition, creation

and development abilities to mature in research groups.

Additionally, at a higher consolidation level, professors shall

promote multidisciplinary research works in search for solutions

to the Country’s social problems.

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KNOW HOW: Research Dimension

Profile of the nueva granada student

A subject interested in his / her integral formation,

competencies and skills development and strengthening the

building of an academic community that is identified with

the institutional university principles of science, motherland

and family. He / she shall be skillful in communicating ideas

with solid arguments, with critical thinking, analytical capacity,

prospective approach and a great sense to understand world

happenings and their effects into his / her surroundings; also to

work in teams and be process leader. He / she shall be creative,

generous and solidary, favorable environment generator for

work with capabilities to solve conflicts and share live peacefully.

He / she shall be a straight, entrepreneur and socially responsible

person that promotes justice, equality and respect for cultural,

ethnic, religious, and / or political differences, and also the

compliance of collective and individual rights.

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Keeping

Excellence

The Nueva

Granada Military Univer-

sity has established a

Self - Assessment Insti-

tutional System as a

continuous process

of self-diagnosis, self-

analysis and institutional

reflection upon the being,

doing and must be of

this University, which

goals, self-regulation and

accreditation are centered

in setting the high

quality and excellence

standards as a constant.

The University shall make dynamic self- regulation structures,

address development in quality management processes, keep

an online database of reliable information for decision making,

support accreditation processes, establish the development

plans definitions, review and establishment according to its

Institutional Educational Project. Also, the University shall issue

programs and other projects, update regulations and apply laws

in force and therefore define policies.

Starting from such a premise, and the compliance

of goals and objectives such as: an integral training, creation,

productivity, development, knowledge transference,

achievement of a mission and the social, cultural and

pedagogical relevance of every and all of its projects, it could be

said that this University is pursuant and answers to the needs

of this society by developing a social function in such ways.

The close relationship and the ways of interaction of all the

aforementioned constitutive items provide a real evidence of the

high quality of this Higher Education Institution.

Thus, the objectives and goals of the Nueva Granada

Military University are as follows:

• To constitute self-assessment as the basis of the

accreditation process.

• To analyze the current university situation and / or its

curricular programs.

• To give a basis to the decision making process.

• To promote the culture of quality assessment.

• To review pedagogical ideas, processes and practices.

• To encourage the participation of the university community

in planning and self-regulation

• To review the offers on courses and titles and adjust them

to the society’s needs and expectations.

As a corollary it could be said that:

The Nueva Granada Military University, in compliance to

its Mission, is committed to continuously improve effectiveness,

efficiency and efficacy in processes by managing risks in order to

achieve academic development, research and social projection,

all these with the purpose of satisfying the needs of the Defense

Sector and society with high quality standards. Additionally, this

university contributes to the achievements of the State ends as

defined in the Colombian Political Constitution.

This permanent concern in seeking and keeping

excellence has made the Colombian Institute of Technical

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Standards (ICONTEC) to award our University with the ISO 9001:

2000 Quality Management Certificate for all its processes and

the NTC GP 1000:2004 Quality Technical Standard Certificate for

Public Management.

Such an achievement is the evidence of two hard years

of continuous work since this Institution started training and

awareness activities until we received an ICONTEC certification

audit. This is the first public university receiving such a certificate

as demanded by the State to every and all of its institutions.

This University also received the International

Certification Network IQNET Certificate, which acknowledges

this Nueva Granada Military University quality services in all of

the countries members of said network.

Certificates awarded by ICONTEC guarantee quality

in activities of undergraduate and graduate, scientific and

technological research, extended education and all educational

services including continued non-formal education, advice and

consultations for entrepreneurial management.

Quality objectives that this University is determined to

are very clear:

• To increase accreditation in undergraduate programs.

• To keep accreditation of undergraduate programs by

continuous self-assessment.

• To provide resources to satisfy the academic – administrative

needs as they are deemed necessary.

• To increase coverage.

• To increase social projection into the general community.

• To increase technological research and innovation products

• To increase social projection into the Defense Sector.

This University has accreditations for most of its

curricular programs and the continuous work with self-

assessment is intended to attain accreditation for the total of

educational programs offered by this university.

For that reason frequent workshops are carried out, in

which advances in such a field are reviewed. The last workshops

have been carried out in the Cajica Site, and during the most

recent one, the diagnosis achieved with the use of surveys

was analyzed. In such surveys, more than 6,091 members of

the New Grenade community participated and these surveys

allowed to consolidate valuable information to design a plan

seeking for the continuous improvement of this University. This

means to keep excellence.

As Nueva Granada members we need to remember

that:

The self-assessment processes in the Nueva Granada

Military University are a commitment by all of our community

members. For such a purpose, we need to be in permanent

training. It is necessary to understand that with self-assessment

we all win, since from self-analysis and reflection upon our

everyday labors, we are able to discover the best ways to do

things for our own benefits and others’.

The path of self-assessment that we take every day we

do to be better in every field, better people, better professionals,

better parents, better friends, better partners, better children

and better colleagues. This is a daily challenge.

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