Aplazamiento académico estudiantil del programa de Arquitectura en la Universidad Gran Colombia en el primer periodo 2016 - Seccional Bogotá

Abstract

One of the main concerns of universities worldwide is the desertion of students, Colombia is no exception and the University of Gran Colombia, It is due to this concern that the need to investigate and take a sample of the Faculty of Architecture and study this problem. The objective of this study is to determine the causes for the student of Architecture of the University La Gran Colombia to the academic postponement and its respective treatment in the first period 2016. With the final propose the research question is: What are the factors of academic deferment from the perspective of the university community in the first period of 2016 within the Faculty of Architecture at the University of La Gran Colombia? The research question is answered through tools such as the survey and the interview; the same were applied to students, administrators and teachers who raised their opinions regarding student deferment. The answers show university what happens with its students and the most important aspects that lead them to make a difficult decision as to postpone an academic semester.This research could turn into a guideline to improve the methods of permanence applied by the university, accepting that there are institutional efforts to avoid desertion, but also failures in cases of student deferment