This text highlights the link with society as a strategic pillar that articulates academic training with the real needs of the environment, presenting the book on the UNAE Zamora Support Center as an essential contribution under a process and quality management approach. The book transcends theory by offering a contextualized diagnosis of Zamora Chinchipe, proposing an operational model that includes indicators, process maps and monitoring systems to ensure the efficiency and social impact of the university. In a global scenario marked by crises that demand humanistic and intercultural responses, the text is consolidated as a fundamental methodological and technical guide for managers and teachers, providing concrete tools to transform higher education into an agent of sustainable change, whose proposal is fully replicable in other national contexts to strengthen the university-community link.

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Dr. Sabina Marlene Gordillo Mera is an outstanding academic with a Doctorate in Educational Sciences and a Master's Degree in Educational Management and Leadership, whose professional career covers with excellence the basic, high school and higher education levels. Her extensive experience highlights her work at the National University of Loja-Ecuador.