Regarding the centrality of higher education institutions in the globalization process and the emergency of new conflicts inside the same, this article introduces itself as a study that builds a multidimensional theoretical proposal, based on the social political theories, to analyze the higher education political process. The study acknowledges educational institutions as political spaces in which different conceptions and alternative projects are confronted and main conflicts spin around some central themes, such as: access, social use of knowledge, resource allotment, professional and academics characteristics.
University; Politic; Autonomy; State; Power