After failing to get favorable responses about the proposed request to the university authorities on Monday April 25, the mobilization of the psychology of unemployment amounts to take.
mobilization decision is taken by the assembly after the irregular removal of one of their peers due to "psychological state" of the student in violation, as explained in the statement, the requirements of transparency one that should have a procedure of such importance . The assembly requires the immediate reinstatement of the expelled student, the transparentation the process, accountability by the authorities involved and Claudia Calderon's resignation, director of the School of Psychology.
then you leave the official communique issued by the assembly so you can review the information in detail.
OFFICIAL STATEMENT Psychology Students at the University of Valparaíso Having performed, on Wednesday, April 27, 2011, an assembly solving by students School of Psychology at the University of Valparaiso, has decided to take a shot of the school facilities as a means of mobilization for express our dissatisfaction with management practices recorded in the current direction, which is present explicitly to the recent expulsion of a partner based on criteria openly discriminatory. With this measure we support the enforcement of a request to give effect to what ails us as political actors active in our school.
Following the request emanating from the assembly, which concerns 3 main demands involve the immediate reinstatement of suspended students based on a very transparent process, clarification of the process and the assumption of responsibilities
and ethical policies of all stakeholders and particularly the school Director Claudia Calderon who is required to resign, it is of vital importance to clarify the meaning of this request, which goes beyond the particular case, which has now served as triggered the discontent of the students of Psychology from Valparaiso University, an institution that states committed to pluralism and diversity, which at present is a clear contradiction with the events.
The Board of Psychology of UV are against the current management board of the school Director Claudia Calderón, since we believe responds to a logic focused on the authoritarianism of primarily administrative and malpractice evidenced both in the professional context of the psychology and the political mishandling of an educational institution.
In particular, we demand the resignation of the Director of the School of Psychology at the University of Valparaiso by the lack of political responsibility
evidenced in his actions, both in relation to the case cited above as partner, and a broader view of his career, as he has taken his tenure in office management, which has been openly and undeniably negligent are linked to the role as policy that involves inserting a management structure in a management position, systematically ignoring the role.
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As we recognize that a part of the performance of a subject in a given position is determined by the structural and functional characteristics that are unique to that position in organizational resign, but we believe a fundamental error to claim that all actions carried out by that guy fit in the above description, leaving aside the fact that the office is occupied by a person with specific characteristics, belief systems and political affiliation, more or less conscious, defining the style of performance in that office. Under this, we identified two levels of questioning, both integrated basic history of our requirement of resignation to the director, and both key drivers of the analysis carried out around the situation.
First, with regard to structural and functional characteristics of the office, students, and in general, the community of the School of Psychology, denounce the excess of authority and powers centralized in the office of Director, under which a person can take entirely arbitrary actions in line with current legislation in the organizational structure of the University Valparaiso, leaving students, staff and even academics in a state of helplessness on the face of decisions made by people who hold positions of power, a situation that makes us unsustainable but unfortunately is replicated in each and every single-person authorities provided in the organizational structures of the state universities.
Moreover, with regard to the person occupying that position, we believe that assuming a managerial position, also means taking ethical and political responsibilities, beyond the recognition that makes the person occupying the position in this regard, are inherent. This is reinforced by a obvious element that may be invisible, but which actually contains the human dimension of administration in the fee: the discretion to act in accordance with the regulations but this does forget that the decisions taken not only concern economic or administrative, if not always affect and in many ways to a group of people, giving space to
institutional violence. It is in this understanding that we as an estate, the tenure of Director Claudia Calderón is incompatible with the pursuit and implementation of solutions to the conflict, including its structural, because from our experience, analysis and collective vision, the act of the director shows a fundamental lack of criteria
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lack of accountability to the community and lack of political will - in which case the aforementioned partner is an unfortunate background - accounting for us as an estate, and from a more institutional look, a condition that causes instability and lawlessness.
invite you to reflect and problematize on the elements described above can be summarized in the question of power, institutional violence, authoritarianism that is unique to the current structure of Chilean university system and how they systematically violate and daily human rights in schools that are training actors of today and tomorrow.
With the understanding that we all as citizens and stakeholders: students, professionals, workers and the general community, are part of the construction of our education and therefore society, we require broad support for this cause definitely concerns us all.
Student Assembly of Psychology, Valparaiso University
