This present study has as a starting point the dual responsibility that universities have nowadays and this refers to the university as a promoter for economic growth, but also as propeller for fostering social cohesion. In this sense, we can bring into discussion the steps that have been made at a legislative level by mentioning the Bologna process and all papers derived such as the Prague communiqué 2001, which emphasizes the need to start working towards the development of a more inclusive higher education system. In order to understand how the inclusion vision was implemented across Romanian universities, this paper focuses on data collected through a qualitative methodological approach, that relies on a semi-structured in-depth interviews conducted with professionals from academia. The interview guide seeks to evaluate what was the impact of educational policies regarding the higher education social dimension in Romania and how do Romanian universities respond to the need to develop of more equitable and inclusive higher education system, with a focus on the support mechanisms developed by universities in order to grant students' access, retention and employability and on the opportunity of developing an Inclusion Index for higher education. Results show that progress in this view is constantly, but still the impact of educational policies is quite low and this is due to the absence of expertize in implementing the established indicators and to the absence of procedures related to the process of policy monitoring.