Meaning of the venezuelan public university management: Rectoral perspective

Abstract

The work describes the meaning of Venezuelan public university management from the perspective of its governing authorities and it is framed in the interpretive paradigm, following the steps of the qualitative approach, the hermeneutic method and content analysis as a working technique. In order to obtain the required information, some theoretical references were taken and institutional documents of public access related directly to seven representatives of the national autonomous universities were located, who formed the units of analysis considered. The process led to the discovery of the categories act, confluence, functions and mission, basing the reliability of the study on a triangulation of data and theory. The final reflection reveals that despite their complicated current situation, the selected organizations have a management capable of facing the challenges of the millennium, among which are their permanence, sustainability and insertion in the processes of globalization and internationalization under a transformative guideline.