The Academic Vice President has a responsibility to ensure unity, the harmonious development of quality academic project. He is responsible for proposing to the Rector training policies undergraduate, postgraduate degrees, postgraduate, research and academic career, while safeguarding their effective implementation. Universidad San Sebastián (USS, St. Sebastian University) is a private autonomous Chilean university with its headquarters situated in Santiago de Chile. It is also located in Concepción (its previous headquarters), Valdivia, Osorno and Puerto Montt. It was founded on 1989, and later on 2001, USS gets a formal state recognition as University.[1] By 2011, it counted with 21.572 students.