The Cordoba Reformation centenary calls for a review of the public university’s role, and with it the function of Extension, since precisely the events of 1918, took place in response to a University model that turned backs on social problems and cloistered in the senility. The Universidad de Panama (UP), the country’s first house of higher learning, has grown and evolved, in the face of national circumstances; with commitment and responsibility, in a belligerent way, fostering and guiding the free debate of ideas leading to public policy decisions. This article includes, based on documentary analysis, a historical account of the main milestones that characterize and describe the “Extension Model” at the Universidad de Panama and its approach from university policy. In it, there is a need to reorient the Extension policy, procuring its own identity, vitality (from common spaces of interaction, linking and feedback with the other university functions), and a privileged place for its strategic institutional importance.
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