Las universidades nacionales de la Argentina en el lapso 1990-2010:: su salto de complejidad organizacional y una discusión sobre el panorama actual de la educación superior latinoamericana

This article aims to contribute to the current debate on Latin American universities. For this purpose, it presents the Argentine case  during the period 1990-2010. It describes the accelerated transformation that took place in many public universities: the sudden  appearance of ne...

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Main Author: Stubrin, Adolfo
Format: Online
Language:spa
Published: Centro de Estudios Avanzados 2024
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Online Access:https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/restudios/article/view/46173
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Summary:This article aims to contribute to the current debate on Latin American universities. For this purpose, it presents the Argentine case  during the period 1990-2010. It describes the accelerated transformation that took place in many public universities: the sudden  appearance of new functions and the postgraduate level with multiple organizational consequences. The following section explores  whether the resources and efforts invested in this diversification had effects, intentional or not, on the system’s main collective  actors and their reciprocal links. The comparison of the Argentine case with other university systems in the region allows, in a  second step, to discuss the viability of the recommendations of experts for the reconversion of Latin American higher education.  These proposals support sectoral public policies to distribute roles among universities. It is concluded that the functional expansion chieved by many Argentine institutions during the period studied is irreversible, which obstructs the reengineering imagined. The  question remains open as to whether or not this specialization among institutions can take the form of an inter-institutional division  of labor in other countries of the region. In this political dilemma, the authorization of private commercial investment and the legal  definition of what functions a quality university should fulfill are at stake in each nation.