%0 Journal Article %T ¨ªndice integral para evaluar la responsabilidad social universitaria en Ecuador %A Viteri-Moya %A Jorge %A J¨¢come-Villacres %A Mar¨ªa Bel¨¦n %A Medina-Le¨®n %A Alberto %A Piloto-Fleitas %A Neydalis %J Ingenier£¿-a Industrial %D 2012 %I Scientific Electronic Library Online %X the role of universities, facing the vertiginous changes of a globalized world, is considered essential for students¡ä capacities and values formation, in such a way that it allows them to meet the demands and needs of society as well as to communicate and establish a culture of social responsibility within the professional practice. nowadays, it is perceived a tendency to use global indicators to evaluate different aspects of organizational management. consequently, this article proposed an integral index in order to evaluate university social responsibility, through key processes: academic, management, involvement with the collective and the inclusion of 2 essential perspectives in the social responsibility management process: environmental and communicational. its formulation was based on the application of a methodology that compiled bibliography on social responsibility indicators, reduced the list obtained and then conformed the integral index that was finally proposed. %K strategic planning %K university social responsibility %K stakeholders %K management integral indicators. %U http://scielo.sld.cu/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S1815-59362012000300009&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en