Instrumento para Evaluar la Cohesión Social en Universidades Mexicanas: Resultados de la Validación Cultural UNIVECS-MX

The objective of this article is to offer a system to assess the social cohesion in Mexican universities. Based on the UNIVECS evaluation model validated in the Spanish context, cultural adaptation and validation has been carried out in Mexico; developing an expert trial with 9 professionals in the area of Anthropology, Linguistics, Pedagogy, Psychology and Sociology, a judge with 51 teachers in higher education, 4 reagent validation groups between 3 universities with 42 teachers and a validation group with 10 students University students All this, based on four criteria of quantitative and qualitative assessment: relevance, clarity, feasibility and absence of linguistic, cultural, organizational and gender biases. From the results and proposals for improvement, a package of validated reagents is obtained based on eight dimensions of analysis of social cohesion in education: Sustainability, Social Welfare, Inclusion, Personal Autonomy, Sense of Belonging, Trust, Social Mobility and Responsibility Social. The results enable and conclude a pertinent, clear, feasible and bias-free evaluation system. UNIVECS-MX is offered to Mexican universities to be able to identify social cohesion in their university careers and make an institutional diagnosis of each proposed dimension.