The University: Between the rational uncertainties of the present and the visionary gaze of the future

Abstract

The university, in this change of era that we are experiencing, plays a key role given the vertiginous development of knowledge and its early obsolescence; hence, learning must be permanent, in order to face the rational uncertainties of the present and complexity of this world system, which allows responding to that complexity that the university, well positioned in its social role, can transform. Facing uncertainties, having a visionary gaze, implies asking what university do we have to imagine and build for the future? It is a reflection that the university community must carry out with great responsibility; In order to thus find relevant answers that position the university in this 21st century, as an institution that, as a public good, must make an invaluable contribution to society. A 21st century centered on the human being is an unavoidable commitment that the university must endorse; hence the relationship between the human and the scientific must be dialectical. Also, the forging of professionals, from the highest House of Studies, must be impregnated with values and emotional education, two axes that would be complemented with teaching, extension and research, the latter becoming the pedagogical task of the university. On the Bicentennial of the Independence of Central America, the motto of our university in this 2021, the spirit of Rubén Darío and Leonel Rugama, are guides of the university endeavor in the fields of letters, the revolutionary commitment and the sense of homeland and nation.