ECOCUIDA 360: propuesta de modelo institucional multicampus para la diversidad, la equidad, la inclusión y la construcción de entornos protectores en la Universidad Santo Tomás

Abstract

This research aims to formulate ECOCUIDA 360 as a proposed multicampus institutional model for diversity, equity, inclusion, and the construction of protective environments at Universidad Santo Tomás. The study is based on a progressive institutional experience developed within the consolidation of the Multicampus Office for Gender and Inclusion, the implementation of guidelines derived from Resolution 014466 of 2022, and the articulation of actions aimed at prevention, detection, response, and cultural transformation in relation to gender-based violence, discrimination, harassment, and exclusion. Institutional documents show that, since 2023, the University has made progress in updating its organizational structure, establishing Gender Attention Mechanism teams, and defining action fields linked to regulatory compliance and the consolidation of multicampus processes.

The research follows a qualitative approach and relies on the critical systematization of institutional experience as a methodological strategy to reconstruct, interpret, and organize the lessons learned from this process. This methodological decision is grounded in the initial research proposal, which had already outlined phases of reconstruction, critical interpretation, and generation of lessons and recommendations based on the analysis of official documents, reports, records, databases, and interviews with key actors.

Institutionally, ECOCUIDA 360 has been presented as an ecosystem for diversity, equity, inclusion, and the construction of protective environments, supported by an organizational transformation that began in 2023 and articulated through axes such as structural transformation, cultural transformation, and collaborative participation. The experience has also incorporated regulatory harmonization processes, articulation with the institutional quality assurance system, the creation of indicators, budget traceability, inclusion pathways, reporting mechanisms, and multicampus pedagogical actions.

This study therefore seeks to move from the accumulation of actions and evidence toward the configuration of an institutional model with clearer conceptual, organizational, and operational foundations. To do so, it proposes a critical analysis of the components, achievements, tensions, barriers, and sustainability conditions of the process, in order to consolidate a proposal capable of strengthening university management and offering criteria for contextual adaptation in other higher education institutions. From this perspective, ECOCUIDA 360 is understood not merely as an ongoing strategy, but as an institutional architecture in the process of formulation, grounded in ethics of care, ecological systems theory, governance, due diligence, and organizational transformation.