University management from an integrative academic perspective: strategies and challenges in teaching, research, and outreach

Abstract

The intention of this article is to interpret university management from an integrative perspective, referring to the administration and coordination of all activities and resources of higher education institutions, seeking harmony between teaching, research and outreach governed by a theoretical philosophical epistemic framework, tending to the understanding of these substantive functions, as a construction of knowledge in learning spaces. It was methodologically addressed through documentary research, carried out from primary and secondary sources of information, hermeneutically in the interpretation and understanding of texts or phenomena, as well as human communication and understanding in general, focusing on how we understand and explain the meaning of what is said or written, considering the context and the different perspectives of the bibliographic documentary review specialized in the object of study. The main objective is to establish a modern vision in decision-making in university management, as an intelligent strategy based on trends and invocations and harmonious development between teaching, research and extension. In conclusion, the results will reveal the positions regarding the divergent discernments that emerge from the organizational characterization, offering a theoretical-interpretative reflection on research management in universities, whose current ontology is perceived in linear, simplistic and reductionist practices, which does not visualize university management as multidimensional and emerging in the contemporaneity of higher education institutions, to elucidate a new allegorical vision of university management from an academic, integrative and strategic perspective that leads it to address the organizational gaps in higher education, related to teaching, research and extension.