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TECNOLOGICA UNIVERSITY: AN EXCELLENT EDUCATIONAL PROJECT FROM THE COLOMBIAN CARIBBEAN TO THE WORLD Since Its foundation back in 1970, Tecnológica University has made it through the years as one of the most modern educational centers in all of the region, offering higher study programs which comply with the entrepreneurial and growth needs of the nation as well as those of the whole world. Over 4,400 graduates are a living testimony of this labor of excellence. We count on Laboratories and Workshops which are instrumental in the development of a true application of real theoretical-practical teaching; Libraries with extended working hours all week long and continuous schedules; E-mail and Internet service with personal inbox for our students; Universia, which is an open Internet room for our community outfitted with 20 computers, systems rooms, computer classrooms for regular lessons and “Malockanet", a comfortable lounge with 50 online connection points and immediate Web access; Tecnológica’s International Center (TIC), a service unit that seeks to implement policies and programs that can increase the degree of interaction between the Caribbean population and the International Community; the Summer School, which represents a different alternative for the student, business, domestic and international communities that can be accessed during vacation time offering training, updating and recreational programs; the Language Center where we offer excellent second language courses of study including Spanish as a Second Language for Foreign Students; our Welfare Service which coordinates cultural groups formed by students as well as all sports activities. We provide the following undergraduate programs: Industrial Engineering, Civil Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Mecatronics, Systems Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Electric and Environmental Engineering; Business Management, Economics, Accounting, Finances and International Business, Social Communication, Psychology and Systems Technology. Furthermore, we offer 17 Graduate programs within the Economical and Management Sciences, Social and Human Sciences and Engineering Faculties.

Our History

Our first honor was having been born in Cartagena.
¡Tecnológica de Bolívar University is proud to be from Cartagena!

It has also been the number one choice for private higher education in the city for years.

It has already been 33 years since our birth on that 5th of August 1970; we are now entering the new millennium fully prepared to establish our 33 year-long trajectory of experience in developing undergraduate, diploma, graduate and Master’s degree courses.



We have spent these first three decades strengthening our relationships with various domestic and overseas universities by means of a sophisticated Virtual Higher Education System following a tendency of unstoppable growth.

Thanks to the futuristic vision of the University’s management, it is now evident that there is a huge contrast between our genesis as a small institute located in a rented site and today’s modern campuses, one in the traditional Manga neighborhood and the other one in Ternera, both of which currently count on a modern infrastructure endowed with our own Internet node linked by means of optical fiber, fully equipped workshops, and libraries ready to serve all of our students.

Our history has been nurtured by our capacity of thinking at a big scale as well as our steadfast determination to offer solid human, scientific and technological training based upon moral, intellectual and ethical principles. We already have several generations of graduates who are committed to the regional and national development and fully trained to perform successfully, even in the overseas job market.

Our history also includes great difficulties which we have overcome; such hardship has made us stronger and has given us the knowledge thatwe can contribute to the building of a better country. That is the reason why we must keep moving forward, relentlessly, always getting better and strengthening our academic community with experience, ideals, accomplishments and expectations for our youth.

 

1970 - 1979

The following are the most important facts recorded during these first 33 years of our trajectory:

• 1970
• August 5, foundation
• October 26, The University becomes legally established
• 1971
• March 3, classes kick off
• 1972
• Purchase of the Daniel Lemaitre House.
• 1973
• Statutory reform that converts the institution into a University Corporation.
• ICFES awards the Engineering program with an accreditation license.
• 1974
• ICFES awards the Economics program with an accreditation license.
• Closing of the Industrial Management and Tourist Administration programs..
• Temporary shut-down due to an administrative and financial crisis.
• 1975
• Statutory reform and inclusion of economical groups (ANDI, FENALCO, CAMACOL, ACOPI AND CHAMBER OF COMMERCE), which implied a deep managerial and financial overhaul.
• 1976
• A license for all programs is accomplished.
• 1977
• ICFES accredits the Economics program and the first promotion of graduates is issued.
• 1978
• ICFES accredits the engineering programs and the first promotion of graduates is issued.

1980 - 1989

• 1980
• The accreditations of all academic programs are renewed.
• Our facilities become extended after the purchase of the house next door to the Daniel Lemaitre House.
• 1981
• Facilities become further enlarged with the purchase of other nearby houses.
• 1982
• Enlargement of Manga facilities, Classroom building is put up.
• 1983
• Statutory reform –founding members and incorporated members.
• Renewal of program accreditation.
• 1985
• Program renewal.
• Purchase of first plot of land in Ternera.
• First intranet connections.
• 1987
• Statutory reform –active founding members and contributing members.
• 1988
• Renewal of program accreditation.
• 1989
• Graduate courses initiate by means of academic agreements.
• Establishment of a project for the Developmental Management of Program Accreditation Renewal.
• Installation of an integrated system program in order to manage more complex networks and data bases.

1990 - 1999

• 1990
• Temporary shut-down
• 1992
• The Ternera project is begun.
• 1993
• Statutory reform.
• Establishment of the Systems Engineering, Systems Technology, Psychology, Electric Engineering and Business Management.
• 1994
• Engineering faculties are moved to the Ternera Campus.
• The Virtual University project is begun.
• 1995
• Purchase of a satellite antenna.
• Purchase of Sun Ultra 1, in order to link all Manga computers into a common network.
• The District’s Council awards the “Cartagena Historical and Cultural Heritage of Humanity” Medal upon the University, 25 years after the University was founded.
• Bolivar’s Governor’s Office awards the “Departmental Merit Honor Medal” upon the University.
• 1996
• The accounting program is established.
• 1997
• The institution’s own graduate programs are established.
• Request towards the acknowledgement of the institution as a University is submitted.
• Program accreditation processes are initiated.
• 1998
• Management Sciences and Social Sciences Programs are moved to the Ternera Campus.
• 1999
• The Internet node is moved to Ternera and a project to link all of the institution into the web is commenced.

2000 - 2003

• 2000
• The Internet node is updated in its operational system.
• The Intranet is used all over the Institution.
• The National Education Office accredits the Industrial Engineering program.
• First promotion of Virtual Master’s degree courses and a Nation-wide Graduation Ceremony of the Systems program at the Auditorium on the Manga Campus.
• Cartagena’s Mayor’s Office awards the Pedro de Heredia Rank to our Corporation as acknowledgment for its 30 years of service.
• 2001
• Establishment of the Social Communication, Finances and International Business, Civil Engineering and Mecatronics Engineering programs.
• The First Finances and International Business Project becomes consolidated, comprised by the Business Management, Accounting, Economics, Finances and International Business faculties.
• The first learning strategies through the Interactive Virtual Learning Systems (SAVIO).
• 2002
• Sanction of new General Statutes through Resolution N° 286 issued on February 21, 2002 by the National Education Office.
• The Higher Council kicks off the Strategic Rerouting Project towards the year 2006.
• New mission and vision.
• Definition of institutional strategic development vectors.
• Construction of an Integral Indicator System for institutional management measurement.
• Development of an installation safety and physical improvement program: Safe Campus Program, relocation and improvement of labs and workshops.
• Project towards the betterment of libraries and welfare spaces.
• Colciencias approves the research project: “Development of a flexible plate minting system” brought forth by the Mechanical Engineering Faculty.
• 2003
• Achievement of minimum quality standards verification in all our engineering programs and visit of the academic pars towards the renewal of the Industrial Engineering program accreditation.
• Achievement of a qualified registration for the Mecatronics Engineering Program.
• Enthusiastic celebration of the 10th anniversary of our Systems Engineering, Business Management and Psychology programs.
• Renewal of Corporate image which became fitter for the university’s projection and for the members of the academic community.
• Implementation of a quality program in all institutional processes.
• Receipt of approval and qualified registration of the new Dual Management program and inclusion of the university into the Entrepreneurial University System of Latin America, certified by the Certqua agency of the European Union.
• Successful grand opening of the first summer school of the Colombian Caribbean.
• Celebration of our 33rd anniversary of institutional life with the grand opening of our “Luis Enrique Borja Barón” CulturalCenter and Library.
• New inter-university agreements were signed with the Ministry of Culture, Education and Sports of the Virgin Islands, The University of Panama, Tecnologica University of Panama and Nacional del Centro de la Provincia University of Buenos Aires, among others, and another two agreements with SalamancaUniversity and Católica de Guayaquil University are on the verge of being signed. .
• The professor Development Plan getsa new boost.
• The first book of our Publications Fund is edited and issued, titled “Management of Materials and Inventory Control”.
• Launch of “Research Notebook Nº 19” along with the Colombian Caribbean Observatory.
• CAPSI was put to the service of the community within the framework of the 10th anniversary of the Psychology Program.
• The Colclínker and Propilco Scholarships were awarded within the Excellency and Caribbean Talent Scholarship Program and a new summoning for 2004 is issued.
• New seminars of the Transparency Class were carried out with guests such as Mayor Antanas Mockus, and professor Alvaro Ramírez García.
• The institution is acknowledged as University through resolution No. 2996 issued on November 28, 2003 by the National Education Office.

Mission - Vision

MISSION: WE ARE a training and research institute with an entrepreneurial calling, in which the academic-student community, professors, businesspeople and society at large, can find the appropriate setting to share a critical, flexible and global educational project through which they learn how to Know, Do, Live and Be, within high academic standards with a sense of social responsibility that leads up to the betterment oflife quality on behalf of our city and the Caribbean.

VISION: WE VIEW OURSELVES in 2006, institutionally acknowledged as a University with a high capacity of academic and social credibility closely associated with all entrepreneurial fields and with the strategic development of the city.

WE VIEW OURSELVES as a leading institution with a global entrepreneurial vocation.

WE VIEW OURSELVES as key-role players in the social transformation of our context.

WE VIEW OURSELVES consolidating a professor nucleus with high academic reviews that can build up research networks in high-priority and relevant subject-matters towards entrepreneurial and social development.

WE VIEW OURSELVES enlarging our coverage, attracting and facilitating our access to the biggest talents, forming a new leading social class generating new work opportunities, according to our entrepreneurial orientation.

WE VIEW OURSELVES integrating parents and alumni into our institutional dynamics.

WE VIEW OURSELVES consolidating Alliances with the productive sector in a mutual learning relationship thus contributing to the strengthening of competitive vantages on behalf of local companies.

WE VIEW OURSELVES linked to the international community by developing agreements and associations that ensure our inclusion into the Global Village.

WE VIEW OURSELVES reinforcing and diversifying our source of income as a condition towards institutional sustenance and as a means towards the achievement of academic development, availability of academic tools for learning, technological growth, risk prevention and towards the compliance of the social duties that fall upon us as corporate citizens.

 

Symbols

	Our current symbol, in spite of being all-out new, keeps the same merge of focus and color that the former one had. As a whole, the elements that comprise the symbol exude a modern image, corporate education and growth within theCaribbean and international setting. Its perspective and bi-dimensional shape convey a concrete direction, steadiness, development and improvement. The transparencies convey union, commitment and participation. The following are the constituting elements: A Palm Tree: the University; The Ring: the sun, the world and rotation; the color: green is our corporate color, which besides serving as a linkage image element with the previous symbol, conveys freshness, renewal, Caribbean identity and co-habitation with the environment.
	The “U” represents the university lifestyle: our academic purpose, our professors and research, social projection, essence, critical, flexible and our globaleducational project. The “U” is the linking element with our partner institutions. It also comes to be the containing element, where everything flows. Its perspective and angular shape conveys a particular direction. Its core is full of color, solidity and graphic strength.
	The Royal Palm Tree is the axis of the Republican Coat of Arms of Cartagena, proud of its past tradition and haughtily confident in its future projection. In addition to being a typical element of the Caribbean region, it represents growth, steadiness, adaptation to winds of change; its roots are firm, conveying stability and stamina. The transparency or contrast conveys clarity, sincerity, a new dawning. Its position within the symbol represents a horizon: the Caribbean as a cornerstone of our projection to the world.
	The Ring –a circle that represents a world in interaction, globalization and internationalization. It is intertwined with the both the Palm Tree and the edge side of the symbol. It is the basic linking element. The Palm Tree is open in its core, which symbolizes our Caribbean projection from Cartagena de Indias towards the whole globe. The circle also depicts a concept of community, environmental responsibility and service dynamics.

Internal Organization

Higher Council

2003 – 2005 Term

Higher Council Representatives are elected by the General Assembly for terms of up to two (2) years.

HONORARY MEMBERS
Rodolfo Segovia Salas
Adolfo Meisel Roca

ACOPI

Carolina Calderón Guillot
Gonzalo Quecano Ovalle

ANDI
Orlando Cabrales Martínez
Javier Félix Zurek García-Herreros

CAMACOL
Juan Conrado Ovalle
Francisco Vélez Carbonell

CARTAGENA’S CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
Oscar Therán Arrieta
Jorge Andrés Restrepo Muñoz

FENALCO
ÿlvaro González Fortich
Jairo Duque Ramírez

ALUMNI
Ricardo Puente Maldonado
Manuel Obregón Navarro

PROFESOR STAFF REPRESENTATIVE
Orlando Del Rio Pájaro

STUDENT BODY REPRESENTATIVE
Marino José Ayazo Sierra

PRINCIPAL
Patricia Martínez Barrios

Sites

	Ternera Campus Mailing Address: Parque Industrial y Tecnológico Carlos Velez Pombo, Km 1 vía a Turbaco. Pbx: 57-5-6535200 Fax: 57-5- 6619240 P.O Box: 1372 Programs: Engineering, Social Sciences and Humanistic Faculties.
	Manga Campus Mailing Address: Barrio Manga, calle del Bouquet cra. 21 No. 25-92. Pbx: 57-5-6606041, 6606042 Fax: 57-5-6604317 Programs: Management and Economical Sciences Faculty and Graduate School.