Carolina Gomez Mena
La Jornada Newspaper
Saturday, February 7, 2026, p. 9
Until last Thursday, 20 of the 35 state public universities had signed the 2026 Financial Support agreements for the Federation to begin allocating the resources, reported Gustavo Cruz Chávez, general coordinator of Strategic Linkage of the National Association of Universities and Higher Education Institutions (Anuies), who added that many of them will probably be able to use the money next week.
The administrative process for institutions to access federal resources sometimes takes longer than some can expect, he said. This is the case of the Autonomous University of Sinaloa (UAS), which called on Mario Delgado, head of the Ministry of Public Education, and Ricardo Villanueva Lomelí, undersecretary of Higher Education of this department, so that the budget could be delivered “immediately.”
In a communication spread on its social networks, it states that “as required by federal regulations, since the first days of January it covered each of the administrative procedures for the signing and operation of the 2026 Financial Support Agreement.”
However, “after having received from the Secretariats of Public Education and Finance and Public Credit the promise to deliver the resources that correspond to us, no later than Thursday, February 5, they have informed us that they have still not transferred them.”
The case of the UAS
Cruz Chávez detailed The Day that the UAS has faced economic problems. In December, the rector, Jesús Madueña Molina, told this medium that he did not have 920 million pesos to pay bonuses. Finally, the state government gave him a loan.
Thus, the university made this “request for support to accelerate the transfer,” and after efforts by Anuies, the expectation is that at the beginning of next week the institution will be able to have the money to cover the payment of the second half of January to academic and administrative workers, active and retired.
The financial agreements are “tripartite, signed by the state public university, the financial authority of the entity and the federal government.”
In addition, observations and subsequent corrections are made to some agreements; “then it starts to take a while.”
The expectation is that the remaining 15 federal public universities that have not signed the agreements will do so shortly, and thus the financing of the majority will be dispersed, probably this month.
