Luisana Zarraga Rodriguez is a 40 years old woman graduated in 1999 from the school of Education, mayor in Pedagogical Sciences, from the Universidad Católica Andrés Bello (UCAB) She has become an example to follow since she now works as a marketing agent in Canada that which she accomplished thanks to her graduate studies.
Luisana first choice of studies was Social Communications, specifically with a mayor in Advertizing. However, due to the great amount of applicants to enter the school she could not get in so she decided to apply for the School of Education.
It was for this reason that I started in Pedagogical Sciences, I started here because I had no other choice, and I ended up loving it, it is career that offers so many possibilities within the education, corporate and technological environment.
She also speaks of how she always liked the UCAB since she finds it cozy but that she especially liked the fact that within the institution the relationship between students and professors is rather close.
Whenever someone would tell me that the UCAB was like a big high school I would reply that that was what I liked the most. The fact that a teacher would greet me by my name and last name in the hallway is something which you don´t see in every university.
During her years as a student she was part of the Protocol Group of the School of Education as well as in the Continuing Education Direction as a work for scholarship. Ever since she started the university she obtained financial aid until, while in the fifth semester, she became an employee and her tuition fees were exonerated.
I would not have been able to begin my career without the proportional financial aid. My family was going through some difficult economic times and from the social – economic study that they conducted I was able to get an 85% discount on my tuition fees. Later on the benefit of having a scholarship for work at the Direction of Continuing Education during my fourth year was the best thing that could have happened to me, it allowed me to cover my fee expenses, I got to know yet another facet of the University, I acquire work experience within my area of expertise, learn and grow as a professional with an A1 Director, Lizbeth Sánchez, and to get to know those who would become my second family for the next 15 years.
In 2005, Luisana graduated Cum Laude in the Human Resources and Industrial Relations Management Magister.
Luisana now feels immensely grateful to the university and for all the support that she got during her studies.
This support changes lives, offers possibilities, the future and hope that the country so desperately needs. When I was in school many people around me did not know that the UCAB offers these financial aids, they thought that because it was a private institution it was only for people with economic resources, but it has never been so. UCAB has always been a supportive, caring university and today, more than ever, with the current economic crisis that the country faces, is in need of generous donations that will allow the university to keep on offering study possibilities to the Venezuelan youth so affected by the crisis.
