This paper offers some guidelines for the characterization and development of college pastoral work, understood as a specific form of the service to the faith and the promotion of justice instrinsecally implied by this service, through a communicative offer of a dialogal, interpersonal and social character, inseparable from an inculturated proposal - i.e., intimately fused with the concrete cultural reality, of the Gospel of Jesus Christ in our communities of higher education directed by the Society of Jesus in Latin America