Una mirada regional a la extensión universitaria

Abstract

This paper presents an ambiguous examination from the viewpoint of the regions of university outreach activities especially from the Universidad de La Serena. On the one hand, it vindicates the value of local heritage and history as a valuable resource while at the same time it complains against the paradigm or prejudice that leads to ascribing value exclusively to what originates from the political, cultural and economic center of the country. One of the proposals is the need to produce synergies between supplementary assets to enhance the values that emerge from the universities throughout the country. Regional universities produce cultural raw material and this increases in value (and matures and triumphs) in national and foreign centers. New policies and institutional actions could create a more cooperative and less competitive relationship among the universities throughout the entire country.