Post # 9: Improving your faculty facilities.

1. WHAT IS THE CURRENT SITUATION IN YOUR FACULTY?
The situation in our Institute, is no the best. Right now, we are going trough a
process of "reestructurarion", where the authorities of the INAP wants to make a
"New" model of eduction and investigation, that's great, but the way they are making
it is not right.

2. WHAT THINGS NEED IMPROVEMENT?
We need a new director, because the one we have is disabled for the process of
"reestructuration". For example, The Insitute made a call for a " public concourse"
to get new teachers, but with no conditions of profession, just asking them for a Ph. D. which doesn't reflects necesarily "Academic Excellence". In this public concourse, everybody (from all areas of knowledge) can present their curriculms, which is fair but Where is the problem? At the end of our carrer, we will have anthropologists, sociologist, lawyers, and other professionals taking us, the "grade exam", with the obvious consecuence: they are not Public Managers, so they don't know as well as they the career. That is bad for us, because we are estuding to be Public Managers, not to be an Antropologist, or a Sociologist, and we are on the risk to rest power to our career. In fact, if we don't make strong the Institute, getting Public Managers, with differents especialitys, our career and our discipline is going to dissapear. So, as long as the director (the actual one, or another) doesn’t be prepared with knowledge of the areas and the proyect, we are going nowhere.

3. WHAT WOULD BE YOUR FIRST STEPS TO DEALING WITH THIS SITUATION?
Keeping the dialog and comunication with authorites, to be permanently keeping an eye on the process and always been askig to our level representants and "Students Centre", so we can act at the moment If something bad happens.

4. HOW WOULD YOU RESOLVE THIS SITUATION?
If situation doesn't get better by the dialog, I would call to all my school mates to
make an strike, to take Central House or "15 Tower", but is the only way to give a new direction to the process.

5. WHAT COULD BE THE REAL BENEFITS/IMPACT OF THESE IMPROVEMENTS?
To put a new director, and make of course a new "reestructuarion" to be the best

school of government in Chile, on these days we are the best one, but we can be much
better. And maybe the best benefit of this, would be to avoid that our Institute
get into a "Political platform" for jobs.


6. NEXT STEPS & FURTHER RECOMMENDATIONS.
Be all together waiting for the moment to Act.