Responsabilidad Social Universitaria y desarrollouna aproximación regional para Colombia

Abstract

Higher education has the capacity to contribute to the positive transformation of the main problem situations associated with poverty, inequality, and the deterioration of the environment. In this sense, social responsibility as a model of management of universities, tends to train professionals in economic and social development, whose individual goals are compatible with the improvement of their environment and the sustainability of the territory. This research is located in the disciplinary field of comparative education, and its purpose is to promote the rapprochement between the discourse and the practice of the RSU in Colombia; For this purpose, we start by reviewing different categories of development and their identifiable variables, from which the socioeconomic and educational panorama of the Colombian departments is characterized, and it is related to the exercise of the RSU in different universities of the country. Among the main findings there is a clear correspondence between the regional profiles of socioeconomic development, the educational scope at the higher level, and the presence of social responsibility policies in universities. These forms of relationship reinforce the hypothesis that the RSU is an axis of effective and pertinent articulation in the partnership society-state-university, by acting as a catalyst for development models.