Incidencia del TLC Colombia -EE.UU en la autonomía de la Universidad Pública

Abstract

College marketing is a trend worldwide, globalization involves important but questionable challenges for universities, so, the essential ideal of the university: "nonprofit" may be threatened. The marketing push is based on the buying and selling of higher education services at national and international levels. This paper addresses the layout of commercial presence as a hub of services and their involvement in higher education, above, seen from the free trade agreement signed by Colombia and the United States in 2012, (TLC Colombia-United States). the issue of education view is identified as a service that is provided for in the treaty in the eleven (11) called Chapter: trade in services and this will be dealt one of its points: commercial presence is the modality by which foreign university establishes subsidiaries in the country, makes trade agreements with foreign educational institutions or franchises to act on their behalf. In addition, it is noted that, although economic globalization creates the framework conditions for the commercialization, the Colombian state plays a strategic and decisive role in its realization and this in turn has an impact on the autonomy of public universities