Carlos Pinedo appointed Joceline Azar Nigrinis as rector of the Universidad Politécnica Distrital de Santa Marta.
Photo: Mayor’s Office of Santa Marta
The mayor of Santa Marta, Carlos Pinedo, appointed Joceline Aznar Nigrinis as the new rector of the Santa Marta District Polytechnic University, to lead the construction of the institution, which is expected to come into operation in 2025.
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In office, Aznar must carry out the administrative restructuring of the University, design and finance the physical structure, as well as design the academic programs that will be presented to the Ministry of Education for approval and implementation in 2025, when it is planned that start teaching classes.
“Landing a project that was in the air for many years is the main challenge we face. The purpose is to build and revolutionize education in the district. The main challenges are working from scratch, turning an idea into a reality, moving from paper to concrete actions. We want a university that gives many Samarians the opportunity to access quality technical, technological and higher education,” indicated the mayor of Santa Marta.
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For his part, the head of the firm’s Private Office, Safuat Atunes, indicated that this administration found “a university full of bureaucracy, underfunded, without a budget, created on paper,” so they appointed a new board of directors and with that chose the rector.
The Santa Marta Polytechnic District University Institution will have an initial allocated budget of $5.5 billion, and will have sports venues, a mega-library, administrative spaces, cultural venues and three subregional headquarters, in accordance with what the Ministry of Education announced in September 2023. , when the creation of the university was announced.
In principle, six faculties were proposed that, according to the Ministry, should promote the fields of science, technology, technology, arts and philosophy, in order to increase the offer of these branches and, incidentally, the university becomes a benchmark in these fields in the region.
