Alvarado Sánchez, Jairo Augusto2015-03-282015-03-2820132256-3911http://hdl.handle.net/10567/1314Universities, by means of their education programs, play a relevant role in the formation of professionals who, in the future, will be able to work as teachers or professors in education institutions. The licenciados (licensees) are the people certified by a university with a title, thus assuring they are apt to exercise teaching. This recognition could be considered as the most important and the central function universities comply within the education system, but this work tries to demonstrate that this way of “credentialism” is nothing but a shortness of seeing in the role of universities and that their academic responsibility is, also, a social responsibility.esCorporación Universitaria LasallistaFacultad de Ciencias Sociales y EducaciónEducación superiorEducaciónMaestrosFormación de docentesArticle