The Contemporary University and It ́s Contribution to a Prosper and SustainableSociety

Abstract

The contemporary university has a fundamental role in the preparation of new professionals from a perspective that corresponds to the new demands that the knowledge requires, in order to reach higher levels of performance. It means the insufficiently updated state in which some of these institutions of the third world are located, with regard to the structural-functional aspects and ways of thinking about themselves, in particular the Latin American and Caribbean ones, however a brief overview is made of what cuban universities have achieved in some of these aspects.
Particularities are proposed that these institutions must attend to update, as well as to obtain a professional formation that positively influences the necessary transformations in what refers to the change of mentality and the achievement of educational excellence, to reach a prosperous and sustainable society.