The extension in Latin American and Caribbean universities to 100 years of the University Reform of 1918. What extension are we talking about? How is the extension projected in the universities of Latin America and the Caribbean?

Abstract

After 10 0 years of the University Reform, we ask ourselves: what it meant for higher education institutions, not only in Latin America and the Caribbean, but also globally? How is the role of the university's social mission weighed in the present and how the extension is projected for the future? What extension are we talking about when we mean university extension? In the Centenary of the University Reform, an important consensus has been reached in the higher education institutions of Latin America and the Caribbean regarding the full validity of reformist guiding principles, in the search for a democratic and democratizing university; co-governed by their own community; with quality and social commitment; autonomous and with full capacity to develop critical thinking.  This Reformist University today renews its commitment to think about itself to face future challenges in increasingly complex, unequal and unjust societies. The present work gives an account of this tour, taking as a historical reference the University Reform of 1918 and analyzing the development of the Public University "between the two centuries". It is part of its content: The extension and social mission of the university from a reformist perspective; the conceptual dimensions of the extension and its main theoretical and analytical categories that define and support it;  identifying the most relevant agenda - in the context of Latin American and Caribbean universities - for the development of their management policies and instruments, and in particular, planning and evaluation as a fundamental perspective in terms of quality and relevance.