Articulation of the substantive functions in the Intercultural University of the State of Tabasco

Abstract

Intercultural University of the State of Tabasco incorporates the main functions such as teaching, research and outreach. The purpose of the current work was to know the state about the coordination among these functions. The research was carried out through collective and individual interviews to different actors and considering the analysis of documents previously selected. The results show that the outreach and teaching have a bigger grade of coordination since students and teachers consider that the relation among different academic and community actors has allowed taking advantage of the activities for learning and the development of the communities. The coordination between teaching and research is not clear in the actions that are carried out. In the case of outreach and research it was identified that it is necessary to carry out actions that allow improving the interrelation of these functions since no many activities have allowed reaching a relation between these functions. The coordination of the three main functions is almost non-existent and in the cases that it is identified, the activities were not planned with that purpose.