Nuevos desafíos de las Universidades socialmente responsables.

Abstract

Since the middle of the twentieth century it has introduced into the economic and academic

societies the concept of Social Responsibility and its variants: Company, Corporate,

Organizational and University, with a clear objective and to transform the purely financial sense

of the organizations to guide them Towards the Social, Environmental and ethical. From the

RSU that is the subject here, it was determined that as a social entity, the university has a double

commitment: to train responsible citizens with the example of the socially responsible

organization. This same premise has generated six new challenges for higher education

institutions that understand University Social Responsibility as a transversal axis of all processes:

1) define and put into operation a policy of selection of teaching and administrative staff; 2)

guarantee the academic updating of the collaborators; 3) train professionals with high levels of

excellence and committed to the development of society; 4) to ensure that the institution's

graduates work for the development of the local, regional, national and international context (in

their order); 5) directly impact the construction of comprehensive public policies and economic

systems that guarantee and improve the labor supply for all, and 6) help other institutions to

emerge and move towards excellence and quality.