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World Teachers’
Day Celebration
UNESCO
Paris, Thursday, 5th October 2017
Panel 2:
Higher Education Responses to the New Demands
for Quality, Equity and Inclusion in Education
Fr. Dr. Julio Fernández Techera, S.I.
• 2nd. university
in the country,
1st, private in
Uruguay (1985)
• 9.500
students
• 7 schools
• 3 campuses
• 1.500 faculty
members
VISION
In four years, UCU will be a very attractive
ethos for young people, who will want to
live the human and academic experience
that we offer. We will be a university that
attracts for its innovative profile, its
excellence in teaching and research, its
institutional agility and its personal,
community and global commitment.
DESIGN THINKING +
HUMAN CENTERED DESIGN
80 Faculty and
Students
1 Month of Intense
Work
Guided by
R. Steinbeck
(California) and
I. Hunt
(Melbourne)
DESIGN THINKING +
HUMAN CENTERED DESIGN
• 4.000 POST-IT
• 24 STRETEGIC GOALS IDENTIFIED
• 8 STRATEGIC ISSUES SELECTED
RESULTS
14 prototype-solutions for 8 different problem areas
THE VISION
4 PROJECTS DEFINED, COMBINING 6 PROTOTYPES
4. Creating enviorments for student life
4 DEFINED PROJECTS
2. Innovation Center 1. Teacher training center
3. Unpacking the Study-Abroad Experience
"...the quality of an
education system
cannot exceed the
quality of its teachers
and school leaders" Ángel Gurría
OECD Secretary-General