This paper intends to reconstruct the recent history of university policies in Argentina, with particular reference to university evaluation. We expect to offer an account describing the origin and the development of said policies and the bodies that put them into practice in the nineties, based on a program for modernizing universities, suggested within an international context (agencies) and latter implemented at regional and national levels. The student movements, marches, strikes and other reactions of the university stakeholders highlight a renewed perception of the crisis of the institution in the region, which shows peculiarities and similarities relative to the globalization processes that are taking place at the closing of this millenium.
university; evaluation; Argentina