Management and university organization to face the COVID-19 pandemic. Contributions from the public university in Colombia
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University management, COVID-19, pandemic, university, ColombiaAbstract
This article analyses the university management developed in a public institution in the initial stage and during the pandemic in Colombia in 2020. The case study method was used to identify the strategies implemented by the institution to face the crisis from the planning, academic management, administrative management, welfare management, research management, and extension. The results show a configuration of university management that was mainly oriented to guarantee the processes of teaching and face-to-face attendance assisted by technology, to support students economically and psychologically through strategies of articulation with other entities, and to withstand the national crisis through academic research and knowledge.
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Brammer, S., & Clark, T. (2020). COVID-19 and management education: Reflections on challenges, opportunities, and potential futures. British Journal of Management, 31(3), 453-456. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8551.12425
Cáceres, P. (2003). Análisis cualitativo de contenido: una alternativa metodológica alcanzable. Psicoperspectivas, 2, 53-82.
Cejas, M. J., & Alfonso, R. D. (2012). Aproximación al estado y tendencias de la gestión universitaria en América Latina. Gestión Universitaria, 5(1).
Cheng, S. Y., Wang, C. J., Shen, A. C. T., & Chang, S. C. (2020). How to safely reopen colleges and universities during COVID-19: Experiences from Taiwan. Annals of Internal Medicine, 173(8), 638-641. https://doi.org/10.7326/M20-2927
Cicha, K., Rizun, M., Rutecka, P., & Strzelecki, A. (2021). COVID-19 and higher education: First-year students’ expectations toward distance learning. Sustainability (Switzerland), 13(4), 1-20. https://doi.org/10.3390/su13041889
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Corral, C. E., Izurieta, L. M., & Macías, M. Y. (2020). Gestión universitaria en post-pandemia: implicaciones para una estrategia de gobierno electrónico. Revista Educare, 24(3), 456-472.
Crawford, J., Butler-Henderson, K., Rudolph, J., Malkawi, B., Glowatz, M., Magni, P. A., & Lam, S. (2020). COVID-19: 20 countries’ higher education intra-period digital pedagogy responses. Journal of Applied Learning & Teaching, 3(1), 9-28. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.37074/jalt.2020.3.1.7
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Ebner, M., Schön, S., Braun, C., Ebner, M., Grigoriadis, Y., Haas, M., Leitner, P., & Taraghi, B. (2020). COVID-19 epidemic as e-learning boost? Chronological development and effects at an Austrian university against the background of the concept of «e-learning readiness». Future Internet, 12(94), 1-20. https://doi.org/10.3390/FI12060094
Izumi, T., Sukhwani, V., Surjan, A., & Shaw, R. (2021). Managing and responding to pandemics in higher educational institutions: Initial learning from COVID-19. International Journal of Disaster Resilience in the Built Environment, 12(1), 51-66. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJDRBE-06-2020-0054
Johnson, N., Veletsianos, G., & Seaman, J. (2020). U. S. faculty and administrators’ experiences and approaches in the early weeks of the COVID-19 pandemic. Online Learning Journal, 24(2), 6-21. https://doi.org/10.24059/olj.v24i2.2285
Mahmood, S. (2021). Instructional strategies for online teaching in COVID-19 pandemic. Human Behavior and Emerging Technologies, 3(1), 199-203. https://doi.org/10.1002/hbe2.218
Marek, M. W., Chew, C. S., & Wu, W. C. V. (2021). Teacher experiences in converting classes to distance learning in the COVID-19 pandemic. International Journal of Distance Education Technologies, 19(1), 89-109. https://doi.org/10.4018/IJDET.20210101.oa3
Meléndez, M. A., Solís, P. C., & Gómez, J. G. I. (2010). Gobernanza y gestión de la universidad pública. Revista de Ciencias Sociales (RCS), 26(2), 210-225.
Mishra, L., Gupta, T., & Shree, D. (2020). Online teaching-learning in higher education during lockdown period of COVID-19 pandemic. International Journal of Educational Research Open, 1. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijedro.2020.100012
Organización Mundial de la Salud (OMS). (2020a). Brote de enfermedad por coronavirus (COVID-19): orientaciones para el público. https://www.who.int/es/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019/advice-for-public
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Paudel, P. (2021). Online education: Benefits, challenges and strategies during and after COVID-19 in higher education. International Journal on Studies in Education, 3(2), 70-85. https://doi.org/10.46328/ijonse.32
Regehr, C., & Goel, V. (2020). Managing COVID-19 in a large urban research-intensive university. Journal of Loss and Trauma, 25(6-7), 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1080/15325024.2020.1771846
Revista Semana. (3 de marzo de 2021). Por pandemia, cayó la cifra de matrículas universitarias en Colombia. Semana. https://www.semana.com/educacion/articulo/por-pandemia-cayo-la-cifra-de-matriculas-universitarias-en-colombia/202105/
Shenoy, V., Mahendra, S., & Vijay, N. (2020). COVID-19 lockdown technology adaption, teaching, learning, students engagement and faculty experience. Mukt Shabd Journal, 9(4), 698-702.
Sobaih, A. E. E., Hasanein, A. M., & Elnasr, A. E. A. (2020). Responses to COVID-19 in higher education: Social media usage for sustaining formal academic communication in developing countries. Sustainability (Switzerland), 12(16), 1-18. https://doi.org/10.3390/su12166520
Sulisworo, D., Astuti, A. Y., & Fatimah, N. (2020). Online learning implementation during COVID-19 mitigation in indonesia: Measuring the lecturers’ technology readiness. International Journal of Advanced Science and Technology, 29(7), 2252-2263.
Tesar, M. (2020). Towards a post-COVID-19 «new normality?»: Physical and social distancing, the move to online and higher education. Policy Futures in Education, 18(5), 556-559. https://doi.org/10.1177/1478210320935671
Unesco. (2020). COVID-19 y educación superior: de los efectos inmediatos al día después. Análisis de impactos, respuestas políticas y recomendaciones. http://www.iesalc.unesco.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/COVID-19-060420-ES-2.pdf
Universidad del Valle. (2020). Anuario estadístico. Recuperado de https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xiDjaTReQrGzL3F_ZjUvM9nzAM6RTEbJ/edit
Vicerrectoría de Bienestar Universitario. (2020). Informe de gestión. Universidad del Valle.
Wang, C., Cheng, Z., Yue, X.-G., & McAleer, M. (2020). Risk management of COVID-19 by universities in China. Journal of Risk and Financial Management, 13(2), 36. https://doi.org/10.3390/jrfm13020036
Watermeyer, R., Crick, T., Knight, C., & Goodall, J. (2021). COVID-19 and digital disruption in UK universities: Afflictions and affordances of emergency online migration. Higher Education, 81(3), 623-641. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-020-00561-y
Yin, R. (1989). Case study research, design and methods. Beverly Hills, CA: Sage.
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