Legal requirements and policy on disability in the Universidad Veracruzana: breakups, misunderstandings and omissions

Abstract

This text is part of an investigation that seeks to analyze how the Universidad Veracruzana (UV), Mexico, has been reconfigured in terms of institutional policies to respond to disability. The particular aim is to analyze some disability policies that have been established from international sources and how they have permeated the local environment. Educational policy for inclusion of students with disabilities in higher education as well as several policy documents both international and national, in addition to the University's own, are analyzed as well. The resulting outcome is that disability policies recently have little changed the ways in which the university attends this student population, because due to their null mandatory characteristics, basically left to free choice, it has not been allowed the full inclusion of students with disabilities.