UNIVERSITY POLITICS, MANAGMENT AND PLANNING IN THE PANDEMIC. THE CASE ON UNICEN

Abstract

This article aims to continue the analyzes that we have been carrying out since the first year of the pandemic, recovering the contributions of references from the field of Situational Strategic Planning (PES) and higher education, in addition to systematizing documents and regulations of the National Interuniversity Council (CIN), of the Ministry of Education of Nation (ME) and from the Secretariat of University Policies (SPU) issued during the health emergency, a set of considerations are made explicit about the characteristics that the Argentine university system acquired, particularly at the National University of the Center of Province of Buenos Aires (UNICEN), in relation to the strategies and planning actions that its managers carried out to address the contingency. In this way, based on the same methodology and maintaining the axis of analysis described, the purpose of this document is to identify continuities and ruptures in the so-called “return to face-to –face” and, in the transition to the post-pandemic. To this end, the following questions are raised: ¿What were those responses in terms of university regulations and provisions to face the progressive return to in-person attendance in a pandemic context? ¿Were they reactive or planned responses? ¿What place does planning occupy in national universities, specifically in UNICEN, to be able to face this transition?