Graduate denounces evils affecting society and urges graduates to contribute to a new social order

SANTO DOMINGO. –The ITechnological Institute of Santo Domingo (INTEC) delivered to society 854 new professionals de degree y postgraduate, during his ssixty-fifth graduation ceremony, among them the first graduate a national doctorate of the university and first graduates of the degree in Financial engineering.

At the investiture ceremony held at the Sans Souci Convention Center, the graduate with the highest promotion rate, Maria Eugenia Portela, PsychologyHe pronounced the speech on behalf of all the graduates and made a reflection of social conscience.

"We are the same Dominican Republic whose weak institutions mostly serve the political party in power and not its citizens," said Portela, who took advantage of the stage to exhort all the graduates to understand their responsibility to contribute to the construction a new social order that allows them to live in a Fairer Dominican Republic for all.

He insisted that, despite the passage of several governments and their promises, the country is still anchored in underdevelopment, "I observe, with deep sadness, that we continue to be the same country where a poor person does not have access to health or education dignity, fundamental pillars for development, the same country where impunity continues to prevail for those who steal billions of pesos from our taxes, supported by a corrupt justice system and an complicit society through its silence and lack of action; we are the same country where electric power continues to be one of the most expensive and inefficient in the world, the same country that has been "growing" economically for almost 20 years without translating this expansion into an improvement in the quality of life of our people," said the graduating

During the ceremony, the first graduate of a national doctorate from INTEC was invested, Miguel Aybar, the Doctorate in Energy Management for Sustainable Development. This pioneering doctoral program in the country began in 2018 with the objective of training highly qualified professionals in the energy-environmental area, with theoretical-practical skills and the use of advanced technology tools, to solve problems in an innovative way. .

Similarly, they received their titles the first financial engineers of the INTEC, Alvaro Fabian Almanzar Dihmes y Astrid Aurora Cabral Jobtboth with honors Summa Cum Laude. These young people are professionals capable of efficiently facing the challenges of business management in a globalized world, helping to solve problems through innovation, planning, organization, leadership and control.

about graduation

El guest speaker of the sixty-fifth graduation was the tourism entrepreneur, Frank Rainieri, who encouraged the graduates to have vision, passion, perseverance and to work constantly to achieve their dreams.

“Perseverance is a virtue that brings us closer to our goals and that includes the ability, will and courage to achieve a goal, overcoming fatigue, setbacks and frustration. It is one thing to start new paths and accept realities and quite another to change course because we believe we have found an easier path or because we let ourselves be carried away by the immediacy that is so harmful and so in vogue today,” he said. 

El welcome speech of the ceremony, was pronounced by the President Julio Sanchez Marinez, who highlighted that doctors graduated from INTEC represent the 18% of doctors in the country, while the engineering graduates are 40% of engineers in the Dominican Republic.

Statistics from the Pan American Health Organization indicate that, as of 2019, there were 15,510 doctors in the country, "Based on that estimate and counting the 100 new graduates who are invested today, we reached a total of 2,783 doctors trained at INTEC, for 18% of all doctors in the country, that is, almost a fifth of the total”, he emphasized.  

“With the new 163 graduates from our Engineering Area, we reached a total of 12,592 graduates from this emblematic INTEC Area. This represents 40 percent of the country's engineers," said Sánchez Maríñez, while urging graduates to begin their professional lives with the conviction of the value of the work to be undertaken, that of forging a worthy and promising future for you and theirs. But include building a better country for everyone as part of your work”, he stressed.

La swearing-in of graduates was in charge of Mark Alexander Benitez Kernogo, Summa Cum Laude, of the career of Cybersecurity Engineering, who obtained an academic index of 3.98 points.

Statistics

During the act, which was broadcast through the INTEC YouTube channel, they were invested 535 women and 319 men, of which 443 graduates (51.87%) belong to the level of degree y 411 (48.13%) at the level of postgraduate

32.43% graduated with Summa Cum Laude honors; 43.78% Magna Cum Laude and 21.62% Cum Laude. In this graduation, 13 scholarship holders of the INTEC Program with Outstanding Students (PIES) received their professional degrees, eight (8) of them with academic honors: three (3) Summa Cum Laude, four (4) Magna Cum Laude and one (1) cum laude.

36.79% of the total number of undergraduate graduates correspond to the Engineering Area; 25.06% to the Economy and Business Area; 22.80% to the Health Sciences Area; 7.90% to the Area of ​​Social Sciences and Humanities and 7.45% to the Area of ​​Basic and Environmental Sciences.

While 39.42% of the postgraduate level belong to Health Sciences; 30.41 a Social Sciences and Humanities; 19.71 to Economy and Business; 9% to Engineering and 1.46% to the Area of ​​Basic and Environmental Sciences.