The Social Responsibility of Universities in Higher Education: The Challenge and Opportunity in International Education. (Word Doc)
In the past two decades, education has been considered a factor in economic growth. The value that it has in the growth of newly developing countries, as well as its strategic value in the development of a knowledge based society help to emphasize its social importance, referred to more specifically as the social responsibility of universities (RSU by its Spanish acronym). This presentation will address the need to refocus the social role of the university as an mechanism to induce improvement not only in the quality of life for the community, but also in the institutions involved in the organization, development of social and political life in the region. Four responsibilities of the university towards society are: a) the socially responsible administration of the organization itself; b) academic preparation; c) the production and diffusion of knowledge; d) participation in the socially sustainable human development of the community. In the framework of the internationalization of higher education, one of the challenges and opportunities is the adoption of RSU, manifest in a variety of actions that span from institutional policies to its consideration as a transversal axis in the curriculum. This presentation reviews a variety of actions that incorporate RSU, and presents a proposal for the construction of RSU networks within the framework of CONAHEC.
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