Elements of the debate on the public function of the university

Abstract

This article examines some of the most significant arguments of current political debates in relation to the transformation processes that affect the Uruguayan public University. In this sense, the challenges faced by the university institution to process internal reforms that favor the regeneration of its social legitimacy are analyzed, especially those arising from the reelaboration of the role traditionally assigned to the University in the context of the model of the expansive cycle of policies. assistance and benefactors of the Uruguayan State.