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10-06-2011, 02:50 PM
In what will certainly be seen as a consequence of the election of a student who has spent 20 years studying medicine at the Autonomous University of Santo Domingo (UASD), the rector announced the renewal of the Student Performance Regulations. The rector of the Autonomous University of Santo Domingo (UASD), Mateo Aquino Febrillet, announced yesterday that starting next December when the semester 2011-2 comes to an end, the university would begin to apply the Academic Performance Regulations, which establish the dismissal of students with low grade point averages (GPAs).
The rector admitted that for some time there was some "forgetfulness" in the application of the regulations, which among other things establishes the time that a student should spend studying for a degree, which should not be greater than one additional semester more than what is set out in the course of study for a particular degree. He recalled that the university recognizes as normal that a student should maintain an average of 70 and that with less he or she will change status to that of "evaluation", "guidance", "temporary professionals suspension for one semester," and finally expulsion from the university.
Aquino Febrillet's statement was made in response to the questions that were raised concerning a student, Ambiorix Rosario, elected president of the Dominican Student Federation (FED), and who has been registered at the university for 21 years, studying Medicine.
"If his average falls, he is under suspension. If he does not have the (academic) standard... when we apply the regulations at the end of this year, any student who is in a similar condition, is no longer (a student), and if he is no longer a student, he cannot be the president of the FED," the rector warned, as he distanced himself from the election of Rosario, claiming that this is an exclusive attribute of the FED, which only requires that the student should be registered at the university in order to run for office. He added that the rector's office has no control over the process.
Students who were interviewed by Diario Libre reporters seemed to be divided in their opinions on Rosario. His friends in the MIEL movement were in favor, but others questioned his ability to provide a good example. The article also seemed to indicate that the MIEL was a sort of an education facility that offered courses to the university students for pay as a way of financing its own operations.
Upon the election of Rosario, Listin Diario carried a report recalling that in 2000 then reporter Maria Isabel Soldevila had published an article in Rumbo Magazine alerting that Rosario had been suspended for having a grade average of 59.7 and only having passed 15 courses in his 10 years at the university at the time. Back then Rosario sought to preside the same FED student council. 20 years later, Rosario said in an interview with Diario Libre that he had only passed 25% of the courses needed for his degree and that one of his objectives was to prevent professors from obliging students to buy books or pamphlets for their course. Diario Libre reported the FED receives RD$5 per each registered student.
www.listindiario.com.do/la-republica/2011/10/3/205885/Ambiorix-Rosario-afirma-cumplio-su-sueno-al-ganar-elecciones (http://www.listindiario.com.do/la-republica/2011/10/3/205885/Ambiorix-Rosario-afirma-cumplio-su-sueno-al-ganar-elecciones)
http://diariolibre.com.do/noticias_det.php?id=307827
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The rector admitted that for some time there was some "forgetfulness" in the application of the regulations, which among other things establishes the time that a student should spend studying for a degree, which should not be greater than one additional semester more than what is set out in the course of study for a particular degree. He recalled that the university recognizes as normal that a student should maintain an average of 70 and that with less he or she will change status to that of "evaluation", "guidance", "temporary professionals suspension for one semester," and finally expulsion from the university.
Aquino Febrillet's statement was made in response to the questions that were raised concerning a student, Ambiorix Rosario, elected president of the Dominican Student Federation (FED), and who has been registered at the university for 21 years, studying Medicine.
"If his average falls, he is under suspension. If he does not have the (academic) standard... when we apply the regulations at the end of this year, any student who is in a similar condition, is no longer (a student), and if he is no longer a student, he cannot be the president of the FED," the rector warned, as he distanced himself from the election of Rosario, claiming that this is an exclusive attribute of the FED, which only requires that the student should be registered at the university in order to run for office. He added that the rector's office has no control over the process.
Students who were interviewed by Diario Libre reporters seemed to be divided in their opinions on Rosario. His friends in the MIEL movement were in favor, but others questioned his ability to provide a good example. The article also seemed to indicate that the MIEL was a sort of an education facility that offered courses to the university students for pay as a way of financing its own operations.
Upon the election of Rosario, Listin Diario carried a report recalling that in 2000 then reporter Maria Isabel Soldevila had published an article in Rumbo Magazine alerting that Rosario had been suspended for having a grade average of 59.7 and only having passed 15 courses in his 10 years at the university at the time. Back then Rosario sought to preside the same FED student council. 20 years later, Rosario said in an interview with Diario Libre that he had only passed 25% of the courses needed for his degree and that one of his objectives was to prevent professors from obliging students to buy books or pamphlets for their course. Diario Libre reported the FED receives RD$5 per each registered student.
www.listindiario.com.do/la-republica/2011/10/3/205885/Ambiorix-Rosario-afirma-cumplio-su-sueno-al-ganar-elecciones (http://www.listindiario.com.do/la-republica/2011/10/3/205885/Ambiorix-Rosario-afirma-cumplio-su-sueno-al-ganar-elecciones)
http://diariolibre.com.do/noticias_det.php?id=307827
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#9)