Notes on an agenda for the modernization University of Costa Rica: context and priorities

Abstract

This article provides an analysis of cyclical Rican public higher education, ofagainst the historical context of the decades of the yearseighties and nineties, where there is a process of reversal of the welfare state.It offers a thorough review of the philosophicaladministrative and public universities in general, andUniversity of Costa Rica in particular, culminating with an agenda of priorities for the modernization of university management, so that the public higher education project undertaken by theU.C.R. For more than forty years, meets the new requirements of the economy, culture and society of this century