Strategies to promote university permanence in times of COVID-19

Abstract

The research provides strategies that allow to promote school permanence at the Technological University of the Southeast of Veracruz (TUSV) during the period of confinement derived from the contingency due to SARS COV II. Information was collected from various sources: department of school services, tutoring and through a survey-type instrument with seventy questions, using the Likert scale and it was carried out to evaluate four tutorial areas experienced during the pandemic, such as: health, academic, socioeconomic, and personal. The survey was applied to 420 students out of a population of 1208, for which there is a level of confidence higher than 95%. Derived from the analysis of data on failure, monitoring of tutorials and tutorial areas, the diagnosis was made, generating a list of findings, derived from the above, strategies validated by a group of experts are proposed, such as: Establish an induction program for teachers and students, institutionalization of leveling courses related to the result of the entrance exam, creating the area of emotional support, Implementing technological tools for academic monitoring, establishing regularization groups, peer support, positive incentives for outstanding students, generating financial plans and establish a personal development program.