Hospitality is the reason why one is able to host the other in its impossibility and in theunforeseen with reception policies. This article aims to discuss the idea of hospitality in theacademy from the case study at the Federal University of Ouro Preto (UFOP) as a result ofthe results of a scientific initiation project. The theoretical assumption is used by frenchauthors such as Derrida, Mauss and Gotman, in addition to brazilian authors who work onthe theme of hospitality in its social notion. In addition to the theoretical debate, the articlebrings a survey with reports and information on social reception projects to UFOP students. Itis concluded that the human concept of academic hospitality can be improved through apolicy for social inclusion in the university that, in the case presented, is carried out throughsome institutional projects.