Resumen

HUERTA-RIVEROS, Patricia  y  GAETE-FERES, Héctor. Social accountability through the Global Reporting Initiative's sustainability reports: the experiences of a public university. Rev. iberoam. educ. super [online]. 2017, vol.8, n.23, pp.120-137. ISSN 2007-2872.

This article tries to approach the concept of university social accountability and carries out a brief description of the methodologies that have been implemented in order to draw up sustainability reports, and particularly the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI). Afterwards the author provides, by means of a contextual analysis of the GRI and the practical experience of a higher education institution, empirical evidence about this subject. The results show that amongst 7,650 institutions only 90 are universities; besides, implementing a case study for the Bío-Bío University in Chile, we can find out that the GRI allows to give account of the social responsibility actions reaching the A level. This is why it is possible to state that the sustainability reports show the activities carried out by the institutions through a certification framework and their commitment for social accountability as well.

Palabras llave : social accountability of university; social accountability; universities; Chile.