New Paradigms for University Management

Abstract

This paper addresses the new paradigms that have been consolidated in the State in the last decade: E-Government, Transparency and Social Responsibility. They constitute government and management policies that should be introduced in the University for its effective management, to guarantee the transfer of knowledge and services with efficiency, openness and community sense.

The new Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) contribute to implement these management policies, facilitating the mission of universities through continuous actions from the digital government, accountability and systematized practices of commitment to citizenship.

It is important to emphasize that Universities need to become fully aware of its social dimension and increase their contribution in order to improve citizens’ life quality. This could be achieved by including social, economic and environmental objectives in their Strategic Plans, which for society may turn into a satisfactory return of the resources aimed to finance them if we take these paradigms as key strategic values in this process.

The University should promote a policy leading to fulfill the mission of the institution, through a continuous process of quality improvement and a responsible management of the impacts that are evident in four main strategic lines: the organization of the University itself and its three pillars: Teaching, Research and Extension.

Translation: María Sol Jorda, Ivana Lozano