Rights, Guarantees, and Duties

• The document discusses rights, guarantees, and duties, specifically focusing on social, economic, and cultural rights.

Education as a Right and Public Service

• Education is a right and a public service with a social function.
• Education aims to provide access to knowledge, science, technology, cultural values and goods.
• Colombian education promotes respect for human rights, peace, and democracy.
• Education promotes the practice of work and recreation to improve culture, science, technology, and environmental protection.
• The State, society, and family are responsible for education.
• Education is compulsory from ages five to fifteen, including one year of preschool and nine years of basic education.
• State institutions offer free education, but can charge academic fees to those who can afford them.
• The State regulates and oversees education to ensure quality, fulfill its purposes, and improve moral, intellectual, and physical development.
• The State ensures adequate service coverage and provides necessary conditions for minors' access to and retention in the education system.
• The Nation and territorial entities participate in the direction, financing, and administration of state educational services, as defined by the Constitution and the law.

Private Educational Institutions

• Private individuals can establish educational institutions, with the Law setting the conditions for their creation and management.
• The educational community participates in the management of educational institutions.
• Teachers with recognized ethical and pedagogical suitability are responsible for teaching.
• The Law guarantees the professionalization and dignification of teaching.
• Parents can choose the type of education for their minor children.
• No one in state institutions is obligated to receive religious education.
• Ethnic groups have the right to education that respects and develops their cultural identity.
• The State has special obligations to eradicate illiteracy and educate individuals with physical, mental, or exceptional capacities.

University Autonomy

• University autonomy is guaranteed.
• Universities can establish their own guidelines and statutes, in accordance with the law.
• The law establishes a special regime for state universities.
• The State strengthens scientific research in public and private universities and offers special conditions for its development.
• The State facilitates financial mechanisms to enable access to higher education for all qualified individuals.

Institutional Objectives

• Strengthening the culture of self-evaluation and ensuring academic quality is an institutional objective.
• Objectives encompass teacher development for academic excellence, internal quality assurance systems for institutional and program accreditation
• Objectives consolidate visibility, internationalization, bilingualism, and the virtual innovation of academic programs for a virtual campus.
• Relevant and high-quality student management strengthens academic services.
• Objectives promote curricular management to enhance student skills and implement learning outcomes.
• Promoting academic offerings involves local strategies with national and international focus.
• Sustainable institutional development modernizes the University’s structure, processes, and information systems.
• Strategic actions promote campus sustainability and manage human talent.
• Research and extension with global impact consolidate scientific production.
• Strengthening extension with social relevance and impact, developing innovation, entrepreneurship, and technology transfer.
• University well-being and social responsibility involve strengthening services and well-being processes.
• Activities should benefit the organizational climate and environment.
• The University articulates its social responsibility efforts with emphasis on inclusive education.

University Vision

• The University Francisco de Paula Santander Ocaña commits to continuous learning and self-evaluation.
• The University trains professionals through innovative pedagogical strategies and technology use, contributing to national and international development.
• The University aims to be recognized for excellence and efficiency in its functions through a global approach, valuing community participation and sustainable societal development