Meaning of the 1918 university reform in Argentina

This article shows how the ideals of Democracy, Republicanism, Socialism or Liberalism take social body in modernity as well as how reformist principles find in university students a social subject that upholds such principles. The students rebellion that caused the events in Córdoba was the convergence of an Argentina that was entering the modern world and a university refusing to change. The movement did not exhaust within the Argentine University of Córdoba but it expanded to build a political program proposing a new university to construct a new society. Undoubtedly, reformism became an identity and a utopia of alternative thinking in Latin America.