This article includes a series of reflections on the scope and limitations of tutoring in Higher Education Institutions in Mexico. It offers theoretical conceptual statements about the purpose of academic tutoring. Besides, it emphasizes the role of the faculty as a tutor, bearing in mind the current demands of his / her role as a facilitator in the training and academic development of the student.

It recognizes the pedagogical implications of the coaching process that occurs from tutoring in order to promote the achievement of moral and intellectual autonomy of university students. Furthermore, it samples some results of the impact of tutoring in Mexico and concludes by sharing some considerations that should be kept in mind in the tutoring action to favor the integral education of the 21st century university students.