“Respondability” in Higher Education Institutions

Abstract

This article is oriented to the study of “respondabil-ity” in Institutions of Higher Education, particularly in Colombia’s education system. For this purpose, and resorting to the method of document analysis, four elements of development were divided in: “Re-spondability”,  Responsibility,  "Respondability"  in higher education, and conduction of “Respondabil-ity”  in  higher  education  institutions  in colombia, to achieve a conception of its postulates in each of them, and finally, from a critical analysis to account for  some  efforts  done  in  this  country  within  the scope of “respondability”. It was possible to match the perspective of different authors of the concept of “respondability”, with the approaches of Manno, Mcmeekin, puryear,  Winkler  and  Winters  (2006), for which at the end of the document, a set of ac-tions is promoted for higher education institutions as a way of working immersed in this new mecha-nism  called  “respondability”. the  study concludes that in Colombia, public institutions of higher edu-cation show efforts toward the design and develop-ment of beneficial academic programs for students, which have their respective monitoring and track-ing mechanisms, thus, engaging institutions into ac-countability.