Everyday Events and Decision-making at the University

Abstract

In the present work we attempt to develop a perspective for the analysis of university management processes, taking the relationship between everyday events in the university academic context and decision-making agents as a starting point. Our reflection is centered upon two state institutions, used as case studies: Universidad Nacional de San Luis and Universidad Tecnológica Nacional de la República Argentina. We analysed the curriculum updating of graduate and postgraduate degrees. We attempted to demonstrate the mutation of university events from conflict to problem or issue in virtue of the tension emerging from the same relationships that are at stake, between experts and university collegiate governing bodies. The document is based on theoretical frameworks from multiple disciplinary fields, as well as on thematic experience in university management. The conceptual development, problematized in specific contexts, aims to question institutional features and practices that deploy particular styles in academic cultures in their management dimensions. The relationship between capital and unity paves the way to proposing critical views upon organizational reality.