The notion of governmentality is presented here is part of a methodological foucultiana apprehension made by master Carlos Noguera, however, and as a contribution of the doctoral research reforms to higher education and university teaching that the author of this text is to develop, integrate the theoretical perspective of Niklas Luhmann or systems theory to explain how new forms of governing higher education, the contemporary university teaching has become psychic systems of operation or operations research and teaching, which allow self-reference and government itself and be governed by a system of cognitive production from the immaterial labor of the two psychic systems of teaching operation under two systems: economic: human capital and cognitive capital and the Reformed higher education.