THE INSTITUTIONAL OBSERVATORY AS A STRATEGY TO CONTRIBUTE TO EQUITY IN HIGHER EDUCATION

The proposal for an Institutional Observatory of Equity at the Universidad Juarez Autonoma de Tabasco (UJAT), in Mexico, is the product of the research project Regional Observatory for the Quality of Equity in Higher Education (ORACLE), sponsored by the European Union through the Erasmus+programme. In this project, 35 Higher Education Institutions from 16 Latin American and 5 European countries participate, and among other things, proposes the systematic observation and registration of equity policies in higher education institutions. The proposal presented here is conceived as a strategy to contribute to equity in higher education. Its objective is to obtain information for the analysis, monitoring and evaluation of equity policies implemented by UJAT To this end, it addresses the concept of equity, some policies implemented by UJAT and defines the activities in which the observatory may have the greatest impact.