Hacia una extensión de calidad: los supuestos de una experiencia.

Abstract

Outreach activities appear as the challenge for the university of the future. The cultural and social change involved in globalization has affected universities while society demands that they prepare an efficient form of cultural supplementation. Thus, university quality is not measured by their specific contents or by their ability to add resources to academic activities, but by their ability to achieve a precise adaptation resulting in the development of both society and universities as institutions. It is not possible to separate the extension of quality from a concept of the social function of knowledge and the role that universities are called upon to play in this respect. The experience of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile reflects the variety and extent to which this relationship can take place.