School Assemblies Will Help Address Community Needs: Reyes Sandoval

Reporter: Enrique Soto / Photographers: Israel Vera and Javier González

During the General Council session, the IPN Director General instructed school administrators to establish assemblies aimed at addressing community demands.

To hear the collective voice of the community and ensure that the institutional transformation process emerges from the grassroots level, the Director General of the Instituto Politécnico Nacional (IPN), Arturo Reyes Sandoval, instructed the heads of academic units, research centers, and outreach centers to establish community assemblies in coordination with their School Technical Consultative Councils within no more than 15 days.

The goal is to foster open dialogue and gather concerns and needs from the different areas of the institution in order to advance solutions.

During the Seventh Ordinary Session of the XLIV General Consultative Council, and after listening in recent days to concerns raised by student representatives, faculty members, and school directors, Reyes Sandoval emphasized that issues that can be resolved within the current fiscal year will receive immediate attention.

“On the other hand, those that exceed the current budget cycle will be incorporated into an institutional diagnostic report that will be delivered to the next IPN administration so they can be addressed in the medium term,” he stated.

He affirmed that Polytechnic authorities have received and analyzed the petitions submitted so far.

“However, we consider it essential to encourage broader and deeper participation across all Polytechnic units,” he emphasized.

“Our administration has embraced permanent dialogue as a cross-cutting action, and we understand that our reason for being comes from the community itself. Therefore, it is the collective voice that defines the roadmap for the transformation of the Instituto Politécnico Nacional,” he added.

Reyes Sandoval stressed that, as has been done before and will continue to be done, the necessary participation mechanisms will be established so that community voices can be transformed into concrete actions. He expressed confidence that the document resulting from the Polytechnic community’s input will provide a comprehensive overview of the needs identified across all institutional sectors.

Within this framework, Reyes Sandoval requested that the General Secretariat and the General Coordination of Institutional Planning and Information compile all demands, concerns, and information emerging from the assemblies in order to create a guiding document for the Institute’s next administration.

In his role as President of the IPN General Consultative Council, he reaffirmed his commitment to open and transparent dialogue in order to continue transforming the Instituto Politécnico Nacional and upholding its historic motto, “La Técnica al Servicio de la Patria.”