Ética del cuidado en entornos de educación superior ante la COVID-19

The COVID-19 pandemic had made visible the importance of care as one of the strategies to stop contagions, given the gradual return to classes for the 2021-2022 school year in Mexico, educational institutions of all levels face great challenges. At the higher level, security measures have to respond to the educational offer, research projects, university extension work, among others, it leads to the question: what are universities doing to avoid contagion and promote shared responsibility of care? In this way, the objective of the article is to share the learnings and challenges that the continuity of a university program of community intervention in the face of the pandemic and the return to face-to-face activities has meant, in order to initiate a dialogue on care among university communities. The ethics of care is proposed as a starting point to make care work visible in public life and as a strategy to strengthen biosafety protocols. The article recovers the systematization of the program, the discussion of focus groups between students and graduates, as well as the biosafety protocols before returning to face-to-face activities.