Education, in all its cycles, allows us to notice what the new generations do, think and dream. Thus, university life reveals quite well what social dynamics have changed in the last twenty or thirty years in Colombia. Such institutions, considered by modernity as the centers par excellence for the creation of new knowledge, reveal that there is already a generation of students in the country who have new expectations; students who have been permeated by a society that was invaded by the new information and communication technologies -ICT-; a matter that makes them have conceptions of knowledge, truth and information very different from that of most of their teachers. This paper reflects on this situation, starting from the idea that, in Colombia, the University as an institution of knowledge is not up to the changes that have occurred in society and the proposals to face its own problems do not come out of it. of current life, given that it remained cloistered in a formation crossed by instrumental rationality, analytical thinking and its consequent partition of knowledge into multiple portions that do not reveal the complex relationships of the world that its students live. Hence, it is concluded that a university institution founded from a complex thought is necessary. This work is the result of reflections made from the doctoral work undertaken by the authors, based on an interpretive-comprehensive methodology, with a documentary analysis technique.