An electronic degree was presented by the University of Guadalajara. Reduce waiting times from years or months to days, the graduate will be able to have their degree certificate and the coveted parchment in one week, which is also environmentally friendly. This will be from 2024.
The long procedure that included visiting the basement of the Rectory building, several floors and several windows, is carried out in a single procedure, a single payment and online is how the new degree model of the University of Guadalajara (UdeG) will be carried out.
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This will ensure that every graduate, if they meet the requirements, will have their degree in one week. This will reduce steps that made the process cumbersome and make it easier for administrative and academic staff and students.
In the end, what was previously done in months or weeks, when one was more stubborn, will be reduced to a few days and the result will be obtaining an electronic title in XML format, a pdf file that is the graphic representation of the XML. (which can be shared with employers) and a printed title (for decoration), which will no longer be a leather parchment, but will be an environmentally friendly one with safety measures.
Less ecological damage
Since 1925, the University of Guadalajara has delivered titles printed on tanned leather parchments, which meant that each year 4.6 tons of highly polluting chemicals, 227 thousand liters of waste water, 3,700 kilowatt hours and 322 tons of carbon dioxide were emitted. carbon.
Starting in 2024, as part of this new process, graduates will receive a title printed on calcium carbonate paper that will result in zero tons of chemicals, zero liters of water, only 4.68 kilowatt hours (as solar or wind energy will be used for its production); as well as zero tons of CO₂.
They socialize it among university authorities
This model was presented to university authorities before the School Control staff, division directors, high school directors and career coordination of the entire University Network, this Wednesday morning in Room 2 of the Santander Performing Arts Complex, to socialize it.
“This is historic and I am especially grateful to the School Control coordinators, with whom we met today to present one of the projects that will improve attention to students. Training and work meetings have been carried out, the regulations have been reviewed and processes have been changed,” reported the General Rector of the UdeG, Dr. Ricardo Villanueva Lomelí.
It is a great challenge, he commented, because this model is a macroprocess that results from unifying isolated steps and criteria that were had in each campus of the University Network. “Let this be an example of how to improve all procedures. If we can simplify the processes, this University will be better,” he said and assured that this will reduce bureaucracy,” he added.
The General Coordinator of Administrative Services and Technological Infrastructure, Dr. María Guadalupe Cid Escobedo, explained that they seek to make the process efficient. “The graduate will only go to the window once and make a single payment. It is a self-managed process where they will not have to mark, they will be able to see their process,” she explained.
This change process to obtain a title of only 15 steps was undertaken by the Coordination of Regulatory Improvement and Innovation for the Management of the UdeG, headed by Evelyn Cortés González.
“You no longer have to wait to validate the payment, it is done automatically. What we want is that the only thing that the student will give us physically are the photographs, which are for the degree certificate and the title, because the rest of the information must already be with us in the school record that will be digitized to upload it in the new system,” he explained.
The General Coordinator of School Control, teacher Laura Puebla Pérez, highlighted that this effort is to give agility to the processes; For this reason, she invited career coordinators and School Control staff to be patient and train in the new processes. For this, training will be carried out at the different campuses of the University Network.
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Previous titles
- Tanned leather
- 4.6 tons of highly polluting chemicals
- 227 thousand liters of wastewater
- 3 thousand 700 kilowatt hours
- 322 tons of carbon dioxide
Today’s titles
- Title printed on calcium carbonate paper.
- Zero tons of chemicals
- Zero liters of water
- Only 4.68 kilowatt hours (since solar or wind energy will be used for its production).
- Zero tons of CO₂.