TY - JFULL AU - Correa Arias and César PY - 2009/8/ TI - Effectiveness and Equity: New Challenges for Social Recognition in Higher Education T2 - International Journal of Educational and Pedagogical Sciences SP - 1485 EP - 1493 VL - 3 SN - 1307-6892 UR - https://publications.waset.org/pdf/8016 PU - World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology NX - Open Science Index 31, 2009 N2 - Today, Higher Education in a global scope is subordinated to the greater institutional controls through the policies of the Quality of Education. These include processes of over evaluation of all the academic activities: students- and professors- performance, educational logistics, managerial standards for the administration of institutions of higher education, as well as the establishment of the imaginaries of excellence and prestige as the foundations on which universities of the XXI century will focus their present and future goals and interests. But at the same time higher education systems worldwide are facing the most profound crisis of sense and meaning and attending enormous mutations in their identity. Based in a qualitative research approach, this paper shows the social configurations that the scholars at the Universities in Mexico build around the discourse of the Quality of Education, and how these policies put in risk the social recognition of these individuals. ER -