Índice integral para evaluar la responsabilidad social universitaria en Ecuador

Resumen

The role of universities, facing the vertiginous changes of a globalized world, is considered essential for students´ capacities and values formation, in such a way that it allows them to meet the demands and needs of society as well as to communicate and establish a culture of Social Responsibility within the professional practice. Nowadays, it is perceived a tendency to use global indicators to evaluate different aspects of organizational management. Consequently, this article proposed an integral index in order to evaluate University Social Responsibility, through key processes: academic, management, involvement with the collective and the inclusion of 2 essential perspectives in the social responsibility management process: environmental and communicational. Its formulation was based on the application of a methodology that compiled bibliography on social responsibility indicators, reduced the list obtained and then conformed the integral index that was finally proposed.