UCundinamarca adopts the quality assurance system

With the purpose of fulfilling the mission functions of comprehensive training, research and university interaction, from the academic, administrative and financial spheres, the University of Cundinamarca, in an ordinary session of the Quality Assurance Committee (SAC), The Quality Assurance System with its four operating models was approved: self-assessment and accreditation model, internal control model, management model, and planning model; additionally, the following was approved: UCundinamarca's new digital operating model.

The importance of the quality assurance system aims to make quality one of the pillars of the University, bringing all processes to self-regulation, self-evaluation, and self-control into an integrated model that will guarantee the quality of all programs, highlighted the Director of Self-Evaluation and Accreditation, Ángela María Merchán Basabe.

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Furthermore, the Integrated Quality Management System becomes a new digital operating model framed within a translocal, transmodern context and digital university governance, which integrates four components: strategic processes, mission processes, support processes, and processes of monitoring, measurement, analysis and evaluation.

The new digital operating model is a dynamic, structured, and holistic model, designed to integrate process management, added Merchán Basabe. Among the most visible actions is the incorporation of Self-Assessment and Accreditation and Integrated Management Systems into the strategic process, which comprises Institutional Planning, Special Projects, and Interinstitutional Relations and Communications.

The digital operating model in the mission process integrates the mission aspects made up of the reason for being of the Institution in training and learning, science and technology and information, and university interaction.

The strategic component of internationalization and graduates becomes part of the substantial pillars of the mission process, which is made up of the admissions and registration processes, university welfare and academic projects.

The support process integrates academic, financial, goods and services, legal, human resources, systems and technology, and document management support. The monitoring and control process comprises citizen services, disciplinary control, and internal control.

It is worth noting the new digital management operating model, the quality assurance system and the new quality policy of UCundinamarca, aligned with the strategic plan 2016-2026, the rectoral plan 2015-2019, the development plan 2016-2019, the university educational project, and the institution's action plans.

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