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Universidad de Especialidades Espiritu Santo (UEES) is a non-profit private university located in Guayaquil, Ecuador and was founded by Dr. Carlos Ortega Maldonado. It was accredited by CONESUP, which is the Ecuadorian higher education accrediting agency. The Campus first opened in the northern part of the city, but then it moved to its new campus, adjacent to the city of Guayaquil and near the suburb of Samborondon. One distinctive program of UEES is the International Careers Program (ICP.) The program allows Ecuadorian students to study their entire career program in English without leaving Ecuador. It also allows foreign students to study their subjects in both English and Spanish, as well as to get involved with Ecuadorian culture.
History
The founding of UEES was first approved by the CONESUP (National University and Polytechnic Schools) Council and then by former Ecuadorian President Sixto Duran-Ballen in 1993. A year later, the opening ceremony was held and UEES was officially inaugurated. Dr. Carlos Ortega Maldonado was appointed as the first Chancellor.
UEES opened with the College of Business and departments, such as: International Business, Business Administration, Finance and Marketing. In 1995 the first group of students registered as full time students. Some of them received the benefits of the Plan Talento which is a need-base scholarship granted to those students who show academic excellence.
In 1997 the College of Law, Policy and Development was opened along with the International Degree Program. The latter is part of the Economics and Business Management School and classes are taught entirely in English for those students who wish to complete their studies in any English-speaking country.
In 1998 UEES created the Institute of Development, Equity and Peace which is part of the College of Law and Liberal Arts.
New needs arose one year after. Since many people could not follow their course work in the traditional weekday schedule, UEES opened the Weekend College Program. Today, it is called University Program for Executives.
In 2000 the University created a new division to promote and create professional development opportunities for students, or the Unidad de Desarrollo del Espiritu Empresarial UDEM (to encourage a spirit of entrepreneurship in students.)
One year later UEES moved to its own campus now located in the neighborhood of Tornero in Samborondon and the following Colleges were created: Computer Sciences, Telecommunications, and Electronics; whereas the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences was created in 2001; the College of Architecture and Design was created in 2002, and finally the College of Tourism and Hotel Management was created a year later.
UEES Campus
The campus is known for having the most modern and useful facilities along the Ecuadorian coast. It also offers a wide variety of services for students, including Wireless internet connection available throughout the campus; state-of-the-art computer labs in every building; a library that holds more than twenty thousand reproductions and virtual access with more than three million academic publications. The University subsidized shuttle service provides easy commuting from the city and the institution. The bus fare is inexpensive for students and free of charge for staff and faculty. For security purposes, a large parking area with permanent surveillance is provided for students, staff and faculty at no cost.
UEES campus has seven central buildings with several more to be built in the near future. The different academic departments and schools are distributed in buildings: A, B, C, D, C1, E, F, and G) as follows:
[[:image:Building A.jpg|Building A]]: The College of Computer Sciences, Telecommunications, and Electronics and the Library.
[[:image:Building B.jpg|Building B]]: The College of Tourism and Hotel Management.
Building C: The Administration building houses the offices of the President, Vice Presidents, and Academic Dean as well as the Marketing and Public Relations Department, and the Information Systems Department and Tech Support Laboratory.
Building C1: Professors VIP room, Health Care Department, the College of Law, Policy and Development.
Building D: Business Offices, Financial Department, General Administration, and Human Resources offices as well as the Admissions Office and Student Affairs Department.
[[:image:Building F.jpg|Building F]]: The College of Architecture and Design, College of Liberal Arts and Education Sciences and the Pastoral Department, which is in charge of the campus Chapel.
[[:image:Building G.jpg|Building G]]: The Graduate School and Continuous Education Division, the College of Economics and Business Sciences, The College of International Studies, the International Careers Program (ICP), the School of Foreign Languages and Applied Linguistics, on the ground floor is the Auditorium, the Mock Courtroom.
Facing the Building G is the Chapel of the Holy Spirit.
New Sports Complex
On July 14, 2007 a new sports complex was opened on campus. This new facility has a soccer field, basketball, and volleyball courts; dance/aerobics studio, ping-pong tables, and a swimming pool. There is also a gym with exercise machines. Both students and alumni may use the sports center free of charge. With this annex to the campus, the University is now able offer courses that require physical training, such as boxing, yoga, and aerobics.
Museum
The University has a small museum located in Building F with original relics from ancient Ecuadorian cultures. These ceramic artifacts belong to various cultures such as la Tolita, Jama-Coaque, Bahia, Guangala, Valdivia, Machalilla and Chorrera. The owner of this precious collection is Archaeologist Guillermo Hurel, a faculty member. The purpose of putting this collection on display is to encourage students to learn more about the ancient cultures that existed in Ecuador and their art.
Organization
UEES is a private, non-profit, nonsectarian tuition-driven university. UEES requires its students to participate in a community service project before graduating. Most of UEES courses are taught in Spanish, however,through its International Careers Program, UEES offers a variety of courses mediated entirely in English by international faculty.
Curriculum, degrees and majors
UEES students choose an academic program that requires completing 140 credits of coursework; students may earn diplomas in Bachelor of Arts, or Bachelor of Science. UEES also has research departments and a teaching faculty for most academic disciplines; as of 2007, UEES offers 28 majors.[1]
Center for International Education
The Center forInternational Education offers programs for international students. International Students can study Spanish, continue with their majors in English or Spanish, if they have an advanced level of Spanish, and also do Community Service. The Service-Learning component attracts students from different parts of the world. Programs for International students run from 4 weeks to 4 months.
Program for International Students
The UEES Program for International Students enables arriving students to discover Ecuador, study the issues and problems of the Andean Region, analyze Latin American development issues, develop their Spanish language skills, perform Community Service in Ecuador, immerse themselves in a different culture, and enroll in regular university courses (credit and non-credit courses in Spanish or English.)
International Academic Programs [*]
UEES offers a wide variety of programs for international study abroad students interested in studying in Ecuador.
The Ecology of Coastal Ecuador-
Students who enjoy nature, archaeological and ecological fields, and, most importantly, who wish to learn Spanish, find this program interesting. The program analyses the exuberant ecosystem of the coastal region of Ecuador, combining academic study with hands-on experience. Students visit 3 places: Chirije, the newest and most attractive ecological and archaeological park along the Ecuadorian coast; Bahia, a culturally and historically rich city; and Galapagos Islands, which have extraordinary landscapes, exotic flora, and a large population of endemic fauna.
Community Health in a Developing Region-
This program is aimed at students who want to be immersed in current economic and social issues. Participants observe alternative medical practices, which include herbal medicine and folk healing. This program is particularly beneficial, for students majoring in biology, pre-medicine, social work, or nursing.
Economics and Business Studies in Ecuador-
Business students with an appropriate Spanish level enroll in UEES courses compatible with their major or minor at their home college.
Intensive Spanish Language Program-
In this program, students develop their reading, speaking, listening and comprehension skills; students have 4 course hours per day.
The Ecuadorian Internship Program-
Through this program, students practice their Spanish while working in agencies, organizations, and companies in Guayaquil, Ecuador. Students work from 4 to 8 hours a day.
Serve and Learn Spanish in Ecuador-
Through this program, students learn and enhance their Spanish language skills in a multicultural environment. Students can have experiential learning in:
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
LOW-INCOME HOUSING CONSTRUCTION
HUMAN RIGHTS
EDUCATION AND SPECIAL EDUCATION
HEALTH
RECREATION
NURSERIES/CHILD CARE
NUTRITION
POVERTY REDUCTION
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT INTERNSHIPS
PARK DEVELOPMENT
BUSINESS
EDUCATION
HEALTH
LIBRARY DEVELOPMENT
SEX EDUCATION
TEACHING ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE
SPECIAL EDUCATION
ECOLOGY/ENVIRONMENT
GARDENING/ORCHARDS
COMMUNICATION/COMMUNITY NEWSLETTERS
TOURISM DEVELOPMENT
Socio-economic Development in Ecuador-In this program, students combine coursework with business internships, community service, and cultural organization activities. Students have a week of orientation, followed by 14 weeks of study. (4 to 8 hours a day)
UEES schedule for international students
Winter, Summer, and regular semester programs, Courses in Spanish, French, Japanese, Italian, and English as a Second Language, Coordination with students' home institution to satisfy their academic requirement; credits are fully transferable,Homestays, activities outside the classroom, and local trips are also available.
UEES has received exchange students from the following institutions:
Washington State University
Kansai Gaidai University, Japan
Pacific University [*],
Oregon Partnership for Service Learning
Roehampton University, England
Universite Montpellier II, France
Stanford University
Sciences Po [*], Paris
Pacific Lutheran University
William Woods University
University of Scranton, Pennsylvania
Harvard University
SUNY [*] New Paltz, New York
Bentley College
Bethel College
University of Lethbridge [*], Canada
Cornell University
International Careers Program
Acknowledging the importance of the English language in our globalized world, UEES offers, through the ICP, courses mediated entirely in English thus affording students the opportunity to study their entire major in English or even transfer to other university abroad.
International Academic Agreements of UEES
United States
STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, New Paltz. www.newpaltz.edu
UNIVERSITY OF SCRANTON, Scranton , Pennsylvania www.scranton.edu
THIEL COLLEGE, Greenville , Pennsylvania www.thiel.edu
CARLOS ALBIZU UNIVERSITY, Miami www.albizu.edu
Japan
KANSAI GAIDAI UNIVERSITY, Osaka www.kansaigaidai.ac.jp
England
ROEHAMPTON UNIVERSITY, London, www.roehampton.ac.uk
France
UNIVERSITE DE MONTPELLIER II, Montpellier. www.univ-montp2.fr
UNIVERSITE DANGERS, Angers. www.univ-angers.fr
SCIENCES-PO, Paris www.sciences-po.fr
Mexico
UNIVERSIDAD AUTONOMA DE LA LAGUNA, Torreon. www.ual.mx
INSTITUTO POLITECNICO NACIONAL DE LOS ESTADOS MEXICANOS (IPN) www.ipn.mx
UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTONOMA DE MEXICO (UNAM) www.unam.mx
Canada
LETHBRIDGE UNIVERSITY. www.uleth.ca
Australia
GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY. www.griffith.edu.au
DEAKIN UNIVERSITY, VICTORIA www.deakin.edu.au
MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY, SIDNEY www.mq.edu.au
Belgium
Vesalius College, Brussels.ICHEC, Brussels Management School (Institut Catholique des Hautes Etudes Commerciales)
UEES Chamber of Commerce
The UEES Chamber for Entrepreneurs, is a unique part of the University. It is a non-profit organization for young entrepreneurs who seeks to be the first Entrepreneurship Chamber in Ecuador integrated by college students.
Vision
UEES seeks to promote and develop entrepreneurship in graduate and undergraduate students, by encouraging its principles in every level; to offer national and international links with institutions promoting cultural and academic exchange and proposing simple solutions to communities needs.
Mission
The fundamental philosophy of the UEES Chamber for Entrepreneurs is to encourage, manage and focus the enterprise initiatives of UEES graduate and undergraduates students. The Chamber of Commerce seeks to reduce the failure rate of students enterprises in its first year.
Also it seeks to increase the presence of new competitive managers and entrepreneurs to take advantage of synergies and become more worldwide competitive. It encourages them to generate commercial and academic alliances with other young entrepreneurs' businesses, on a national and international level.
Strategic Objectives
-To promote and develop the entrepreneur vocation of the graduate and undergraduate students. -To help students with information, good advising and research that they may implement in order to create innovative enterprises with creative and achievable services with international projects. -To promote membership and participation of the young UEES entrepreneurs in organizations already constituted. -To maintain contact with the public, private and community services about topics related to the activities of the Chamber.-To serve as an organization of unity and coordination among its members promoting the spirit of solidarity among them.
Strategic Plans
In order to reach the strategic objectives the Chamber expects to:
-Organize conversatoriums, courses, fora or conferences that contribute to the formation of new managers and entrepreneurs. -Associate with other similar organism to exchange academic experiences and participate in national and international meetings to expand its presence in the market. -Advise students regarding technology and finance -Incorporate a virtual site of the CEM-UEES in the web page of the university. -Coordinate activities with the UEES Public Relations Department to promote entrepreneurship through different communication media.-Organize special fundraisers for special social projects.
Students services and security
STUDENT SERVICES [*]
UEES offers limited financial aid. It offers full scholarships to students who qualify. They must maintain a good academic standing.
UEES also offers a group health insurance that covers health [*] accident, death, or injury inside the campus.
UEES has a Learning Resource Center, a copy center and a cyber cafe. Through the Learning Resource Center information and check out is available on line, and students have access to audio,video and multimedia materials. In addition to WIFI, several Internet Cafes on campus allow students to check their e-mail, finish homework, and print papers.
UEES keeps students informed about the university activities and changes through electronic billboards, and e-newsbulletins. UEES offers many study abroad opportunities through several international academic agreements.
Security
Security in Ecuador is a very important matter. Guayaquil is a large city where residents and visitors alike must take precautions to be safe. The University has a security system in place. The UEES ID is needed to enter campus and video cameras are installed throughout campus. Campus is an alcohol and drug-free environment.
Graduate degree programs
The Graduate School offers several master's degree programs for business executives which are conducted on special weekend-long sessions.
Masters
Masters in Business Administration
Diplomas
Graduate Certificate Program in Management of Marketing and Sales
Graduate Certificate Program in Higher Education
UEES media center
UEES has a broadcasting media center which includes a radio station and a TV studio. It is of great use for those students who are pursuing a degree in Communication studies. Her they can practice how to contuct a TV or radio shows.
Students can go to the radio station and record shows which are later edited on 2 computers that have specialized editing programs and also on other electronic editing devices.
The radio station has everything students need to develop their skills, not only as radio broadcasters, but as editors as well. UEES has 2 editing rooms, with a macro computer on both equipped with state of the art technology for editing.
They also have a TV studio, which has all the electronic devices to edit video and audio. This studio has 2 high-tech cameras with prompters, and a green or blue screen so that students can put any background they like to the recordings.
Here, students can practice T.V. production. They learn everything that really happens in a TV studio like: camera coordination, editing, lights and the like.
UEES also has a magazine called "Campus". This magazine has information about the university; and it also has interesting articles on different subjects which are written by students to improve their communication skills and allow them to express themselves.
Besides "Campus" there is another magazine called "Podium". This magazine is issued every month and its director is Carlos Calderon along with several members of the editorial council. They are in charge of editing the articles to be published.
Dr. Carlos Ortega Maldonado, as chancellor of the University, writes the editorial every month. The magazine features articles about education, society, law and politics, economy, science and technology, tourism, journalism, literature, history, art, culture, external politics, movies, and more. These articles are written by people with experience in their field in order to keep the magazine interesting.
Overall, the university gives its students all the media tools in order for them to practice and be prepared for their future.
Communication Related Degrees
Journalism:
Major in Print Press: graduates from this major are able to analyze and evaluate information, reason with logic using a historical current and global perspective; as well as understand and apply the principles, laws and concepts of social communication.
Major in Audiovisual Journalism: graduates from this major are able to analyze and evaluate information, reason with logic using a historical current and global perspective; as well as understand and apply the principles, laws and concepts of social communication. Graduates also will value the social responsibility of the means of communication and prepare efficient audiovisual messages thanks to the knowledge of the value and the importance of the language of the image and its combination and articulation of the natural tongue.
Major in International Journalism: The graduate from this major can evaluate the information, reason logically inside an international historical perspective, prepare visual messages and effective graphs, understand the law of communication and value the responsibility of the means of communication.
Communicational Organization:
Major in Public Relationship and Events: The graduate from this major can create, execute and evaluate permanent plans of public relations, with ethical criteria and communicational efficiency.
Major in Corporative Communication: The graduate from this major can analyze and evaluate the necessities of an organization.
Major in Human and Organizational Development: The graduate from this major can take decisions at a managerial level, by the analysis and control of the indicators of management analyzing the labour environment from a more objective and creative view.
Clubs and activities
UEES [*] sponsors activities such as an Ecuadorian cultural week, a day of cultural diversity, and a University Queen contest. UEES has clubs that are integrated into different departments, such as the juridical club, technology club, journalism club, economic club, ecology club, leadership club, reading club, cinema club, travel club, international club, executives club, and the English club. A new club is the [*]Marketing Club By the Class room of Professor Abdul. Butt. [*]
Noted faculty
-Martha Chavez [*]
M.D. Universidad Catolica de Guayaquil. Bilingual Professor of English and writer of fiction. Author of Precisando el sentido . Coauthor of Consta en la muestra: Entre el cero y la unidad . Has written stories for Eskeletra, published in Quito.
Publications by UEES faculty
Cuaderno de Investigacion Vol.- 1 Teorias Economicas del empleo y desempleo. By Dr. Fidel Marquez and B.A Edwin Ulloa Arellano
Cuaderno de Investigacion Vol. 2 Historia Economica: El caso del Banco Central del Ecuador by: Dr. Fidel Marquez, Dr. Melva Lozano Veliz
Cuaderno de Investigacion Vol. 3 Desarrollo Humano del Ecuador by: Dr. Fidel Marquez, Ms. Cecilia Carriel de Marquez, Dr. Econ. Ernesto Arroba Salvador, Dr. Melva Lozano Veliz
Cuaderno de Investigacion No. 4 Autonomia Guayas by: Dr. Melva Lozano Veliz and Dr. Fidel Marquez
Cuaderno de Investigacion Vol. 5 Estudios Monetarios en Dolarizacion y desempleo 2000 en Guayaquil by: Jose Ortiz, Rosa Segarra, Dennis Marin Lavayen, Omar Guerrero
Cuaderno de Investigacion No. 6 Ecuador apuesta al Turismo by: B.S Solange Graces Aguilar
Cuaderno de Investigacion No. 7 Expansion economica via equilibrio fiscal descendente by: Econ. Sara Tamayo Insuaste
Cuaderno de Investigacion Vol. 8 La competitividad en la Industria Bananera by: Econ. Ernesto Arroba Salvador
Cuaderno de Investigacion Vol. 9 Nuestro comercio exterior en la ultima decada by: Dr. Econ. Ernesto Arroba Salvador
Cuaderno de Investigacion Vol. 10 Apuntes sobre pensamiento economico by: Dr. Econ. Ernesto Arroba Salvador
Cuaderno de Investigacion Vol. 11 Analisis sobre la seguridad social by: Dr. Fidel Marquez Sanchez, Econ. Rodrigo Calderon Valdez, Econ. Victor Alvarado Ferrin, Sr. Enrique Ampuero Pareja, MBA. Enrique Armendariz Lasso y Mede. Sara Tamayo Insuaste. (mayo 2004)
Cuaderno de Investigacion Vol. 12 Las Remesas Movil de la Migracion Ecuatoriana by: Dr. Fidel Marquez Sanchez, Ing. Carlos Morlas Molina, Ing. Carlos Morlas Espinoza, Ing. Rene Fernandez Arauz. (junio 2004)
Cuaderno de Investigacion Vol. 13 Pasantias universitarias Experiencias de la UEES-Metodologia aplicada en entornos sociales y comunitarios
Cuaderno de Investigacion Vol. 14 Analisis de Riesgo Pais: Ecuador y Costa Rica by los Exalumnos de la Escuela de Postgrado y Educacion Continua de la UEES.
Folletos de Investigacion Publicacion Interinstitucional Las Autonomias: Algunas estadisticas basicas by: Universidad de Guayaquil, Espol, Laica Vicente Rocafuerte, Catolica de Santiago de Guayaquil, UEES.
Folletos de Investigacion No. 1 Comentarios a la ley de transformacion economica del Ecuador by: Dr. Santiago Velazquez
Folletos de Investigacion No. 2 El Oleoducto de Crudos Pesados by: Dr. Econ. Ernesto Arroba Salvador
Folletos de Investigacion No. 3 Autonomia estrategia de Desarrollo by: Dr. Econ. Ernesto Arroba Salvador
Folletos de Investigacion No. 4 Analisis sectorial de la industria bananera by: UEES, CORPEI
Folleto de Investigacion No. 5 Liderazgo by: Ing. Leon Febres Cordero Rivadeneira. (junio 2004)
Folleto de Investigacion Mensaje a Garcia by: UEES.
Publicacion Interinstitucional: Violencia intrafamiliar enfoques psicologico y juridico by: IECAIM - UEES. (2004)
Folleto de Investigacion No. 6 Derecho Internacional Americano y la Carta Democratica Interamericana by: Dr. Juan Carlos Faidutti (2005)
Documento de Trabajo: Manual de Fundamentos del Derecho by: Dr. Santiago Velazquez
Documento de Trabajo: EL Proyecto de Ley de la Fiducia y los costos de exportacion en la industria bananera by: Dr. Econ. Ernesto Arroba Salvador
Documento de Trabajo: Combinacion de Sociedades by: Dr. Nicolas Cassis Martinez
Cuaderno de Investigacion Sectorial No. 1 El Arroz by: Dr. Econ. Ernesto Arroba Salvador, Econ. Galo Cabanilla Guerra, Ing. Eduardo Cisneros
Cuaderno de Investigacion Sectorial No. 2 La industria bananera: La dolarizacion y su impacto en la estructura de costos by: Ing. Santiago Jaramillo Davalos, Ing. Nicolas Romero Ordenana, Dr. Econ. Ernesto Arroba Salvador
Cuaderno de Investigacion Sectorial No. 3 Proyectos de economia agricola by Estudiantes de la Universidad Tecnica de Machala: Kelly Torres, Patricia Espinoza, Jorge Vega, Mauricio Criollo Moscoso, Joseph Valarezo, Jessenia Aguirre, Priscila Morales.
Cuaderno de Docencia 1 titulado Conflictos regionales y poder central en los paises andinos (los casos de Ayacucho Peru y de Guayaquil en Ecuador) by: Abg. Francisco Jimenez.
Cuaderno de Docente . 2 titulado: El ABC de la Banca by: Ing. Carlos Morlas Molina
Desarme y corrupcion by: Dr. Oscar Arias, Dra. Rosalia Artega y Gral. Paco Moncayo.
De Maestro a Maestros by: Dr. David Samaniego Torres
Que haria yo si fuera elegido? By:UEES
Un hombre para recordar by: Dr. Leonidas Ortega Moreira
Prehorizontalidad by: Dr. Carlos E. Ortega Maldonado
La Magia del cuento by: Lcda. Lorena Ovendano de Castro
Mision Cumplida by Dr. Enrique Ortega Moreira
Retazos de historia by: Dr. David Samaniego Torres
Coyuntura Economica by: Dr. Ernesto Arroba Salvador
Cuaderno titulado: Derecho Internacional del Mar by: Dr. Juan Carlos Faidutti
Guia Ciudadana del Ecuador by: Dra. Melva Lozano Veliz
Cuaderno titulado: Carlos Arroyo Del Rio -Martir o Traidor by: Sr. Efren Aviles Pino
Las mas bellas canciones del Ecuador by: Dr. Francisco Correa Bustamante
Cantares Inolvidables del Ecuador by: Dr. Francisco Correa Bustamante
Todo Guayas en sus manos by: Dr. Francisco Correa Bustamante
Antologia Musical by: Dr. Francisco Correa Bustamante
A mi manera...Los anos de Carondelet by: Arq. Sixto Duran-Ballen Cordovez
Dos simones en una democracia de muchos jovenes by: Lorena Aguayo, Ana Lopez, Paola Echeverria, Malka San Lucas, Hugo Herrera, Estefania Proano, Yael Latorre, Joaquin Larriva y Carlos A. Arosemena.
La palabra: En ejercicio exigente
Perfiles del Ecuador por. Econ. Leonardo Vicuna Izquierdo
El Mundo de Ayer visto por mis ojos by: Dr- Francisco Bolona Rodriguez
Noted Alumni
- Luis Ernesto Perez [*]
Singer
He took courses at UEES. He went abroad to finish his studies- he has not graduated yet- and now he is back promotioning his CD.
- Kathy Lopez [*]
Miss Ecuador 2006
External links
http://www.uees.edu.ec/quienes/quienes.htm
http://www.conesup.net/info_universidades.php?id_univ=1037
http://www.ipsl.org/about/facultyandstaff.aspx
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