Mata Rivera, Enrique2023-02-202023-02-202013-071405-0234http://hdl.handle.net/11056/24735La universidad, desde su nacimiento, se constituyó como espacio de expre sión y preservación de la universalidad del conocimiento; es decir, como el lugar donde se transmite y se difunde el saber humano. Hoy, esa misión de la universidad está en peligro de desaparecer ante las medidas neoliberales y los programas de ajuste estructural, que promueven la mercantilización de la educación y, por ende, transforman la casa de estudios superiores en instituciones empresariales, lucrativas, en la que la universalidad, ele mento fundamental de la universidad, se perdería ante el predominio de una cultura virtual y superficial.From its origins, universities where conceived as a space to express and foster the universalism of knowledge; or in other words, as a place in which human knowledge can be transmitted and disseminated. Today, this essential mission of universities is in danger of disappearing as the result of neoliberal policies and programs of structural adjustment that promote a market oriented approach to education, and therefore, policies that are transforming institutions of higher education into enterprises that have profit as their main goal, and by which universalism is almost entirely eliminated from the curricula in order to implement an education highly specialized and with a very superficial and virtual un derstanding of the humanities.spaAcceso abiertohttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/UNIVERSALIDADUNIVERSIDADNEOLIBERALISMOEDUCACIONESTUDIOS GENERALESUNIVERSALITYUNIVERSITYNEOLIBERALISMEDUCATIONGENERAL STUDIEShttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501