A Meta-planing Systemic Model for Mexican Public Universities

 

R. Llarena del Rosario¹, F. Lara-Rosano*²

 

¹ CENEVAL.

² Centro de Ciencias Aplicadas y Desarrollo Tecnológico Centro de Ciencias de la Complejidad Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México México, D. F., México. *rllarenat@yahoo.com.mx.

 

ABSTRACT

Planning has been performed in Mexican public universities, since the 1940s, as a function promoted by government policies. However, the results were not as expected. We found through an exploratory study that this lack of planning efficiency derived from the obsolete planning conceptions and methods adopted.

In this paper a meta-planning model is proposed, based on the application of complexity sciences to social organization problems. In this context, only an eminently participative meta-planning process would allow to impulse change and development at the Mexican public universities.

Keywords: Complex systems, university planning, soft systems, meta-planning.

 

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Acknowledgements

This work was supported in part by the project Conacyt 152008

 

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