The appropriation of educational policy in Mexican public universities: between ambiguity and diversity

Abstract

In this paper, the degree of appropriation of the higher education policy in forty Mexican Public Universities (upm) is evaluated. In such a manner, the relationship between institutional indicators and the desirable scenarios proposed in the main public programs associated to the field of higher education through the calculation of multidimensional indexes based on fuzzy logic is analyzed. Main findings show the policy ambiguity to determine its scope in differentiated realities; it also reinforces competition and the development of institutional abilities, resulting as an expansion of fractures in the institutional performance.