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44-668: The University of Santiago of Chile (USACH) started as the School of Arts and Crafts in 1849. It was born in the mid-20th century and it is the fifth oldest university in Chile. The Escuela de Artes y Oficios (EAO)(Spanish School of Arts and Crafts ) was founded on July 6, 1849 by Ignacy Domeyko , during the Manuel Bulnes Prieto rule, to improve scientific and technical development in the country. It started with four workshops: Mining , Mechanics , Casting and Carpentry . At

88-493: A daily newsletter known as "U. de Santiago al Día" that tells about the university events and university scientific news in the field of humanities, sciences and technology. It is currently accredited by the National Accreditation Commission (CNA-Chile) for a period of 7 years (out of a maximum of 7), from February 2021 to February 2028, being one of the 5 universities with maximum accreditation in

132-545: A space to promote the development of graduate programs of academic excellence and to train highly qualified human resources. In its building at 415 Quebec Street, Providencia district, are located the study premises attached to the Department of Law and Social Sciences and to the Business School, various graduate programs are taught and an exhibition gallery operates. On the new campus building at 2222 Santa Elena,

176-487: A union bond between the huge number of students and authorities of the university in order to promote the mutual collaboration for the university management, and also seeks to promote the harmonious development of students at the large university campus thus generating and establishing an important space for politics and university management in the country. The association of servants of the University of Santiago, Chile

220-539: A unique podcasting system in the world. University of Santiago, Chile radio as well as television contributes to spread local music via cultural programs and hot news such as Escena Viva. Both have their own channel in YouTube. In 2018 the university launched a television channel via signal 48.1 for an on-line open digital television in Santiago, called Santiago Televisión, broadcasting 24 hours. The university also has

264-538: Is an association formed by servants representatives who work for the university. This association, as a union, acts to represent and protect the collective interests of workers before the action of the university officials, and in general before the State political decisions regarding human resources management and civil service. As an association it is ruled by the Administrative Statute and by extract, it

308-614: Is located in the Los Niches sector, to the South-East of the city of Curicó, 50 km north of Talca, and concentrates the programs of the Department of Engineering: Industrial Civil Engineering (day and evening), Computer Sciences Civil Engineering, Mechanical Technical Engineering, Mechatronics Engineering, Construction Engineering and Civil Engineering in Mines. Postgraduate programs are also offered. The Santiago Campus emerged as

352-548: Is ruled by the Labour Code. Planetario Chile is located at the University Campus; it is 13380 m2, made up of a building, square, gardens, water mirror and parking for 100 cars. Single in its kind in the country, it's one of the biggest 50 astronomical audiovisual centres in the world. The astronomical dome is 22 m diameter and the stars simulation equipment, a Carl Zeiss projector, model VI, and allows observing

396-596: Is the university's headquarters and largest campus. It is part of the Chilean Traditional Universities , the Consortium of State Universities  [ es ] and the Group of Regional Universities of Chile  [ es ] . University of Talca is considered as the best public university outside Santiago by various rankings. It offers ten PhD programs and 27 Master programs. It

440-669: The Casa Central de la Universidad de Chile , of which Domeyko was long-time rector . In 1992, a plaque in Spanish and Polish was placed on a building at Krakowskie Przedmieście 64 , in Warsaw , Poland, commemorating the "distinguished son of the Polish nation and eminent citizen of Chile." On the 200th anniversary of his birth, UNESCO declared 2002 to be "Ignacy Domeyko Year." Several commemorative events were held in Chile under

484-638: The Philomaths , a secret student organisation dedicated to Polish culture and the restoration of Poland's independence, he was a close friend of Adam Mickiewicz . In 1823–24, during the investigation and trials of the Philomaths, Domeyko and Mickiewicz spent months incarcerated at Vilnius' Uniate Basilian monastery. After participating in the November 1830 Uprising , in which Domeyko served as an officer under General Dezydery Chłapowski , in 1831 Domeyko

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528-706: The University of Los Lagos ), the Professional Institute of Valdivia (later integrated in 1988 into the Southern University of Chile ) and the Magellan Professional Institute (later transformed into the University of Magallanes ). The University of Santiago de Chile, near the University of Atacama and the University of Magallanes are the only heirs of the traditional State Technical University, because at

572-741: The Commonwealth had been dismembered in the partitions of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth . For this reason, and because Domeyko subsequently spent most of his life in Chile , he is considered a person of national importance to Poles , Belarusians , Lithuanians , and Chileans . Domeyko enrolled at Vilnius University , then known as the Imperial University of Vilna, in 1816 as a student of mathematics and physics. He studied under Jędrzej Śniadecki . Involved with

616-534: The Technical State University ( Universidad Técnica del Estado , UTE), resulting in it becoming the best Chilean university in the area of applied engineering and industrial technician training. On February 8, 1952, the first statute that allowed the grouping to begin functioning as a university in legal, administrative and academic terms, was enacted. Its first president was Don Octavio Valenzuela Lazo (March 12, 1952 to March 12, 1953). In 1958,

660-607: The Teknos, the university's troupe, was founded. Academic activity remained in the hands of the four Faculty Councils under the tuition of the University Council. During the 1960s, the DFL No. 2, 1971, allowed for the enacting of a second organizational statute, which allowed the University to be organized through offices, colleges, departments, and all academic structures that the board would deem appropriate. In 1968 due to

704-548: The University Reform of 1967–1973, Enrique Kirberg Baltiansky assumed the rectory, the only university rector fully elected by faculty and students. In 1971, during the government of Salvador Allende , Revised Statutes of the Universidad Técnica del Estado were approved. During the 1973 coup , Kirberg was removed from his post and imprisoned by the military regime, the statute previously approved

748-466: The auspices of Polish President Aleksander Kwaśniewski and Chilean President Ricardo Lagos . In 2002, Poland and Chile jointly issued a postage stamp commemorating the 200th anniversary of Domeyko's birth. Also in 2002, a 200th-birthday plaque honoring him was placed in the entry gate to Uniate Basilian monastery in Vilnius , Lithuania, where he and Adam Mickiewicz were held in 1823–24 during

792-565: The buildings of the faculties of Health Sciences, Agricultural Sciences, Economics and Business Sciences and Law and Social Sciences. Other Institutes, Schools, Vice-Presidencies, Technological Centers and various other agencies and administrative services are distributed in the campus as well. Here are also found a Sculptures Park, including part of the National Museum of Sculpture, and the Botanical Garden (6.5 hectares). It

836-527: The city of Curicó , 60 km north of Talca. The university has expanded to other cities in recent years: Santiago in 2005, where a new campus was inaugurated in 2013, a Technological Institute in Santa Cruz in 2007, and a campus in Linares , in 2017. The university has five campuses. Located in northern Talca, it is the largest university campus, with an extension of more than 90 hectares. It hosts

880-1061: The country. In the QS Latin America University Ranking 2023, the university ranked 4th among Chilean universities and 14th in Latin America. Estadio Usach is a multi-use stadium in central Santiago , Chile , named after the Universidad de Santiago de Chile . It is currently used mostly for football matches and until around 2003 was used to host the home matches for Club de Deportes Santiago Morning , which now plays in La Pintana . The stadium holds 3,000 people. 33°27′S 70°41′W  /  33.450°S 70.683°W  / -33.450; -70.683 Ignacy Domeyko Ignacy Domeyko or Domejko , pseudonym: Żegota ( Spanish : Ignacio Domeyko , Spanish pronunciation: [iɣˈnasjo ðoˈmejko] ; 31 July 1802 – 23 January 1889)

924-533: The country. The university ranks fourth among Chilean universities according to the CSIC webometric ranking (July 2020). In 2017, Times Higher Education ranked the university within the 401-500 band globally. According to the QS World University Rankings 2022, the University of Santiago ranked third among Chilean universities and as the second best public higher education institution in

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968-419: The following departments : The University of Santiago Students Federation (Feusach) is an organization that represents and aims to protect all the students enrolled at University of Santiago in matters relating to the higher education system, i.e. decisions and actions of university, academic and political officials dealing with the public service of the higher education given by the university. It also works as

1012-593: The former Grand Duchy of Lithuania . In 1884 Domeyko returned for an extended visit to Europe and remained there until 1889, visiting his birthplace and other places in the former Commonwealth, as well as Paris and Jerusalem. In 1887 he was awarded an honorary doctorate by the Jagiellonian University , in Kraków . In 1889, soon after returning to Santiago, Chile, Domeyko died. Named in honour of Domeyko are: A bronze bust of Domeyko stands in

1056-480: The headquarters into the University of Santiago de Chile. The other sites became separately named universities such as the University of Atacama, the University of Antofagasta, the University of Serena, the Professional Institute of Talca (later transformed into the University of Talca ), the University of the Bío-Bío , the University of La Frontera , the Professional Institute of Osorno (subsequently transformed into

1100-644: The institution in that time. In 1971, the UTE cinema department released its first production “El Sueldo de Chile” (1971) directed by Fernando Balmaceda. By then, the Universidad Técnica del Estado was planning to open a television signal in Channel 11, whose intentions were finally aborted after the coup d'état in 1973. In 1979, 11 VHF dial of Santiago, Chile was transferred to the known as Universidad de Chile Television, today known as Chilevision . Due to

1144-523: The investigation and trials of the Philomaths . In 2015 a Belarusian climber Pavel Gorbunov placed a memorial plate on the top of Cerro Kimal in Cordillera Domeyko . University of Talca The University of Talca ( Spanish : Universidad de Talca ) is a Chilean university. It has five campuses, located in Talca , Curicó , Linares , Santa Cruz and Santiago . The Talca campus

1188-421: The legal continuity of the preceding. In 1998, students from the informatics career of the aforementioned university led by José Zorrilla, developed a project to transmit the radio via internet and a program transmission system on demand, whose technology would be known six years later as podcasting . At the same time, its web site is launched leading it as the first university radio transmitting via internet with

1232-905: The presidency of Gabriel González Videla through the DFL Decree No. 1831 of April 9, 1947, the School of Arts and Crafts was joined with the School of Mining in Copiapó (1857), La Serena (1887) and Antofagasta (1918), with the Industrial Design Schools (1905) in Temuco (1916) and Valdivia (1934), with the Industrial Engineering Schools in Santiago (1940) and with the Technical Pedagogy Institute. Together these formed

1276-460: The regional and national productive sector in strategic areas related to the wine industry. It was inaugurated in 2017 and it host the Faculty of Education Sciences and offers also the undergraduate program on Public Auditor-Accountant. Its facilities span an area of 6,300 square meters. The university has nine faculties, three schools and six institutes. In 2017, Times Higher Education ranked

1320-455: The southern and northern night sky. In 1959, the Universidad Técnica del Estado radio was launched, local radio station with subsidiaries in towns where UTE was present. After the arrival of television and the cinema development in Chile during the 1960, UTE founded the Cinema and Television Department. During these years, this department develops a series of documentaries that showed the work of

1364-431: The study of that country's geography , geology and mineralogy . His observations on the circumstances of poverty-stricken miners and of their wealthy exploiters had a profound influence on those who would go on to shape Chile 's labor movement . Domeyko is seen as having had close ties to several countries and thus in 2002, when UNESCO organized a series of commemorations of the 200th anniversary of his birth, he

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1408-539: The technology of mining, studied several previously unknown minerals , advocated for the civil rights of the native tribal peoples, and was a meteorologist and ethnographer . He is also credited with introducing the metric system to Latin America. He served as a professor at a mining college in Coquimbo ( La Serena ) and after 1847 at the University of Chile ( Universidad de Chile , in Santiago ), of which he

1452-461: The time of the dissolution and the creation of the new universities in 1981, the headquarters ( Santiago ), Copiapó and Punta Arenas , were not integrated with other university offices. The headquarters is located where the old School of Arts and Crafts used to be in the municipality of Estación Central . One of its symbols is the planetarium built in the 1980s. The university houses over 18,000 undergraduate students in 66 different majors , in

1496-501: The time, students ages ranged between 15 and 18 years old, thus making the EAO not a University, but a secondary education entity. Students were required to read and write and to know basic arithmetic operations . Besides being intensely trained in workshops, students studied algebra , descriptive geometry , trigonometry , technical drawing , industrial mechanics , physics and chemistry , besides Spanish , history and geography . This

1540-592: The undergraduate programs are concentrated: Auditing and Control Management Engineering, Business Engineering, Law and Political Sciences and Public Administration. It is located in the city of Santa Cruz and was created by the joint effort of a group of businessmen from the O'Higgins Region and the Universidad de Talca to develop a project linked to the needs of regional development. It is an academic unit devoted to training Professional Technicians, continuing education for professional and research and development for

1584-468: The university reform in 1981, Universidad Técnica del Estado Radio and its subsidiaries in the country broke up and were replaced by Universidad de Santiago Radio, Universidad de Talca Radio, Universidad del Bio-Bio Radio, Universidad de Atacama Radio, Universidad de Antofagasta Radio, Universidad de La Serena Radio, Universidad de los Lagos Radio, Universidad de Magallanes Radio and Universidad de la Frontera Radio. Universidad de Santiago de Chile Radio assumed

1628-465: Was rector for 16 years (1867–83). Domeyko gained Chilean citizenship in 1849, but declared at the time that "I may now never change my citizenship, but God grants me hope that wherever I may be—whether in the Cordilleras or in [the Vilnius suburb of] Paneriai —I shall die a Lithuanian." The term "Lithuanian" at that time designated any inhabitant, whatever his ethnicity, of the territories of

1672-687: Was a Polish geologist , mineralogist , educator, and founder of the University of Santiago , in Chile . Domeyko spent most of his life, and died, in his adopted country, Chile. After a youth passed in partitioned Poland , Domeyko participated in the Polish–Russian War 1830–31 . Upon Russian victory, he was exiled, spending part of his life in France (where he had gone with a fellow Philomath , Polish poet Adam Mickiewicz ) before eventually settling in Chile , whose citizen he became. He lived some 50 years in Chile and made major contributions to

1716-548: Was a four-year education that later, in 1858, extended to five years. Graduates were called 'apprentices'. In 1886 the EAO moved to a bigger building, located at Quinta Normal , where it would stay up until now. In 1912 it started to educate 'industrial sub-engineers', later known as 'technicians'. By the time, the EAO was able to grant two education level degrees: Arts and Crafts degrees (secondary education level) and Technician degrees (tertiary education level), and by 1936 it granted Industrial Engineering degrees too. Later during

1760-656: Was accredited for five years (2014-2019) by the Comisión Nacional de Acreditación (National Accreditation Commission). The Universidad de Talca was founded in 1981, upon the fusion of the seats in Talca of the Universidad de Chile and the Universidad Técnica del Estado . For this reason it is known in the Chilean system as a "derivative university". In 1998, the Faculty of Engineering was founded and established in

1804-571: Was declared void, and new guidelines were reformulated with appointments done entirely by the military regime. The musician and poet Víctor Jara , who worked as a professor at the university, was arrested by Pinochet's forces , tortured and murdered days later In 1981, the military regime through the DFL Decree No. 23 of March 21, 1981, divided the headquarters of the State Technical University, giving rise to new universities and professional institutes. Steps were taken to form

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1848-478: Was forced into exile in order not to face Russian reprisals. Journeying through Germany, he arrived in France, where he would earn an engineering degree at Paris' École des Mines (School of Mining). He also studied at the Sorbonne and maintained his political engagements with Belarusians, Poles, and Lithuanians. In 1838 Domeyko left for Chile . There he made substantial contributions to mineralogy and

1892-569: Was president of the local land court ( Polish : sąd ziemski ), died when Ignacy was seven years old; the boy's uncles then served as his guardians. In his youth Ignacy was a subject of the Russian Empire . He had, however, been brought up in the culture of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth , a multicultural state whose educated and dominant classes had spoken Polish as a lingua franca . Shortly before Domeyko's birth,

1936-528: Was referred to as "a citizen of the world". Ignacy Domeyko was born in the then Russian partition of the former Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth , at Niedźwiadka Wielka ( Belarusian : Мядзьведка , romanized :  Miadzviedka ) Manor (Bear Cub Manor) near Nieśwież , Minsk Governorate , Imperial Russia (now Karelichy district, Belarus ). The Domeyko family held the Polish Dangiel coat of arms . Ignacy's father, Hipolit Domeyko, who

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