Mexico's National Institute for Historical Studies Becomes Public Center for Higher Education

The National Institute of Historical Studies on the Revolutions of Mexico (INEHRM) has officially transitioned into a decentralized public body, now integrated within the Secretariat of Science, Humanities, Technology and Innovation (SECHITI). This significant change was formalized through a decree published in the Official Gazette of the Federation, following an announcement by President Claudia Sheinbaum.

Previously an institute focused solely on research, INEHRM is now positioned as a public center for studies, joining the ranks of institutions like the Institute of Investigations Doctor José María Luis Mora and the Center for Economic Research and Teaching (CIDE). The decree establishes INEHRM with its own legal personality and assets, operating under the coordination of SECHITI.

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The decentralized public body of the Federal Public Administration, named the National Institute of Historical Studies on the Revolutions of Mexico, henceforth with its own legal personality and assets, which will be grouped in the sector coordinated by the Secretariat of Science, Humanities, Technology and Innovation.

The institute's mandate has expanded to include providing excellent, free public higher education. Its focus will encompass the study of history, social sciences, humanities, the historical memory of indigenous and Afro-Mexican peoples, women's history, gender relations, diversity, childhood, youth, and Mexican humanism. The aim is to cultivate new generations of students.

With this new status, INEHRM is now authorized to grant higher education certificates at the bachelor's, master's, and doctoral levels. It can also accredit study plans, develop cultural content, and disseminate its research findings. The institute announced that it will soon launch its admissions call for the first cohort of students.

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INEHRM's objective is to provide excellent, free public higher education, dedicated to research and the study of history, social sciences and humanities, the historical memory of indigenous and Afro-Mexican peoples, women's history, gender relations and diversity, childhoods and youth, and Mexican humanism, in order to train new generations of students.