Santo Domingo, R.D.- The Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra (PUCMM) and the Popular Foundation held the Opening Ceremony of the Fourth Cohort of the Master's Program in Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainability taught with a dual degree with the Polytechnic University of Valencia.
Participating in this virtual event were Arturo Grullón Finet, Executive Vice President, Talent Management, Cultural Transformation, Service Quality and Systems and Processes of Grupo Popular; Joel García, vice president of the Talent Management and Culture area at Banco Popular Dominicano; Mr. Elías Dinzey, general manager of the Popular Foundation; and Silvia Pesquera, manager of Training and Induction in the Talent Management and Culture area of Grupo Popular.
From PUCMM, Paulo Herrera, Dean of Graduate Studies; Angye Rincón, Director of the “Alejandro E. Grullón E.” Sustainability Chair; Stefanie Pou, Director of Admissions; and from the UPV, Gabriel García, director of the Master in Corporate Social Responsibility.
The words of welcome were given by Mrs. Angye Rincón, who thanked the support and collaboration of the Polytechnic University of Valencia, and the Popular Foundation for this academic program in the country. He reported that the Fourth Cohort is made up of the students: Alda Iris Reyes Santiago, Alfredo Logroño Rodríguez, Alina Victoria Flores Ballester, Ana Isabel Rojas Fortuna, Carmen Bienvenida Blanc Knipping, Delffin Rafael Peralta Familia, Emilia Deshire Ramos Díaz, Griselda Torres Acevedo, Lucidami Mercedes Suárez Neris, Maileny Alexandra Abréu Olmos, Miguel Ángel Hernández Haché, Rahisy De La Cruz, Silvia Paola Lora Padrón, Vilma Licena Mejía Soto and Yara María Hernández Gutiérrez.
Dr. Gabriel García continued, who thanked the trust and support of being able to share this training space in this university, in the Dominican Republic and specifically this path that they are going to start. "He stressed that for the Polytechnic University of Valencia the start of the Fourth Cohort is enormously satisfying, which endorses a clear consolidation of the beginning of this new chapter and of this training project that, without a doubt, is an important support for our trajectory and our learning experience in the field of training in Corporate Social Responsibility.He gave great thanks to the Chair of Sustainability "Alejandro E. Grullón E." promoted from the Mother and Teacher and the Popular Foundation since without this support it would not be possible.
Mr. Dinzey congratulated all the students for joining this new challenge. He thanked Mr. Grullón Finet since, thanks to him, we can count on five new Banco Popular scholarship holders for the second consecutive time in this Fourth Cohort. The master's degree has allowed the creation of a legion of business leaders in the Dominican Republic prepared to promote, from within their organizations, sustainability strategies that not only benefit their companies, but also benefit Dominican society as a whole and that is part of the magic of this master's degree, which makes it possible to strengthen business systems, develop much more robust corporate structures, but also makes it possible to promote a very important contact linked to the "2030 Agenda, since it is an issue that concerns us all and that is really going to to be able to learn in this training space those elements that will be able to take us a little further”, indicated Mr. Dinzey.
Finally, Mr. Herrera, thanked this walk together that is proof of ups and downs, since this that all of humanity has had to experience in the last year, the result has been a strengthening of quality ties. It has transformed all of us, it has transformed the way we operate, how we relate, but ultimately, it has made us more human because it has made us more aware of our humanity.
To the students who are part of this new adventure, this new path, that they know that the institutions that are involved in this program will not disappoint them, they will jointly face the challenges that this path holds for them and the circumstances that they represent, together we will arrive Herrera said.