Knowledge Society, Academic Activity and University "Third Mission": A Latin American Perspective

MARQUINA, MÓNICA; REZNIK, NICOLÁS

Hiroshima

Congreso; Changes in the Academic Profession in the Knowledge-Based Society and International Comparison; 2024

Research Institute for Higher Education (RIHE)

We analyze the changes on the external academic activity of three Latin American countries, based on policies aimed at promoting the “third mission of the university”, under the paradigm of the knowledge society. It is about studying to what extent teachers at universities of Argentina, Mexico and Chile develop activities with their environments (extension, linkage, transfer), and identifying regularities and differences according to their disciplines. Likewise, the extent to which these tasks show differences in orientation is investigated, depending on whether these external activities are more oriented to the indistry, commerce, supervision or more linked to a social commitment. By using data from the APIKS Project,this study places processes of transformation of academics' activity in national and international context. It is, therefore, a matter of identifying different academic profiles based on the external activity they carry out, and projecting to what extent these changes collaborate in the future with greater diversity and complementarity of functions of the institutions.