Review of the institutional social projection from the educational impact on graduates

Abstract

From a notion of educational quality conceived as one that ensures the acquisition of significant knowledge and the development of citizen capacities committed to the transformation of reality, the universities entrusted to the Society of Jesus in Latin America have been generating initiatives that aim at training of students for commitment and solidarity. This article aims to determine the emerging factors linked to the institutional culture that affect the training of its graduates, and in this way, infer the changes to be introduced in the policy of institutional social projection. The methodology used included an interpretive, retrospective and cross-sectional analytical approach, developed through a qualitative methodological design through documentary analysis, interviews with institutional referents, graduates, and external referents (employers and representatives of deontological entities). In light of the results, it was possible to determine the value, procedural and instrumental reviews that the university's social projection policy should face, in order to fully comply with the mission that has been entrusted to it.