Reestruturação e expansão das Universidades Federais: a adesão da UFSCar ao REUNI
Abstract
The Federal University of São Carlos (UFSCar), throughout its slightly over 50
years of operation, has undergone profound changes that have greatly impacted its
actions, resulting in its way of being, producing and presenting itself, and particularly
within the context of Brazilian federal higher education institutions and society in
general. These changes have essentially resulted from a process of decision-making
and democratization of decisions, within the scope of its Superior Councils, which
have been happening since the establishment of the first Superior Council. Currently
the University Council, ConsUni, the highest deliberative body at the University,
composed of representatives from all categories of the university community, has its
decisions taken through a democratic and participatory process. Thus, based on the
assumption that many decision-making processes impacted the Institution itself,
Brazilian higher education and society, this study has the objective of broadly
document how UFSCar’s decision, taken by the University Council, in adhering to the
Program for Support for Restructuring and Expansion Plans of Federal Universities
(REUNI) occured, seeking to understand the causes of internal reactions to its
implementation. Furthermore, it aims to contribute to the recording of history and the
pressing need to preserve the memory of UFSCar, given that 66% of teaching and
technical-administrative employees have spent less than 15 years at the Institution.
Given the unitary nature of the object studied, the methodology used was the case
study, through bibliographical and documentary research, the latter being
fundamental for the development of the theme and understanding of the internal
manifestations that occurred in the process of joining UFSCar to REUNI, as well as
understand the national scenario involving the Program launched by the federal
government. This research, in another instance, will contribute to studies in Science,
Technology and Society (STS), highlighting the importance of interdisciplinarity, and
its potential to understand and record the history of the Institution, preserving its
institutional memory, in addition to contributing to future research related to the topic.
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