Three modes of university historically constituted in Colombia are identified
from the 16th century to the present: the confessional, state, and private-lay
university, which correspond to three forms of organization of three powers:
the Church, the State, and the Enterprise. Nevertheless, this research, in its first
exploratory phase, reveals another university in Colombia: peasant, intercultural,
indigenous, and of the peoples. This another university is characterized by its
strong relationships with interculturality and popular education. It promotes
the educational intention of the political subject on the contribution of their
construction as a historical subject, who enables social practices, which act on
the popular and collective subjectivity, which is an effort to create the conditions
for another life in community.