Resumen

PENA RUIZ, Rosa Mercedes; PARRA OLIVARES, Javier Enrique  y  MENDEZ DE SOUKI, Betty. The Sucre Mission: Student Profile and Opinions from its Direct Actors in Maracaibo. Revista Venezolana de Gerencia [online]. 2009, vol.14, n.48, pp.562-577. ISSN 1315-9984.

Since 2003, the Venezuelan State has been following different strategies in the search for empowering institutional synergy and community participation to guarantee access to university education for all high-school graduates without a place in the university and overcome the condition of exclusion in this education subsystem. The Sucre Mission was defined within this framework. This article examines two aspects of it: a) a profile for the incorporated student population and b) the opinion the most immediate actors (students, professors and coordinators of village universities) have regarding execution of the Sucre Mission in the municipality of Maracaibo. To accomplish this, official documents were reviewed and self-administered questionnaires and semi-structured interviews were applied to a random sampling of the actors. Conclusions were that the Sucre Mission, to a great extent, has fulfilled its objective of incorporating high school graduates who previously had not been admitted to university education and that the actors involved are of the opinion that new educational models have been implemented.

Palabras clave : Sucre Mission; student profile; actor’s opinion; university public policies.