Typology of the Universities Colombian and Typical of his Corporate Government, a Review from his Bylaws

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to describe the types of universities that exist within the university system in Colombia as well as the most relevant characteristics in their corporate government structure composed by the Maximum Collegiate Body (MCC) and the president as the executive actor of the university organization. 83 organic bylaws of the Higher Education Institutions (IES) with university academic character were considered. Variables were analyzed related to distribution and presence in the country, action fields and academic programs, juridical nature of the institutions, quality assurance, government organs and the university president. The results show a government organ diversity differentiated by their definition and functions both in the collegiate bodies and in the personal authorities, aspects related to the found typologies. It was concluded that it is necessary to establish a common criteria to orientate the practices of a good government in the IES in the framework of their autonomy that approaches topics such as conflicts of interest, to articulate the relation between coverage and quality, that promotes qualification of the managerial teams for the university management, the encouragement of meritocracy in the processes of selection, the definition of functions in the MCC and the participation of all of the groups of interest (internal and external) of the university community.