O momento das ações para a permanência no ensino superior: visitando a política de assistência estudantil da Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora

Abstract

The present study deals with the student assistance politics at Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora. The general perspective is to discuss the combination of two variables: the universal assistance to the attending graduation students under socioeconomics vulnerability and the expressive increase of places in higher education in the period of 2009 to 2012. This point of view is developed under the theoretical basis of the discussions on the democratization of higher education and social inequality implicating in the delineation of school pathway. The central objective of the Educational Action Plan is to present proposals to modernize the aforementioned politics and harmonize the institutional norm with the national legislation. The specific objectives of this Educational Action Plan are described in the partial analysis of the execution of the Educational Assistance Politics at UFJF, aiming the possibility of modernization due to the evolution of the aforementioned politics; besides the harmonization of the institutional norm with the national legislation, due to the publication of the Decree-Law 7.234, of July 2010, and the change in the assisted student profile. Based on these objectives, two main hypothesis are considered: if the Student Assistance at UFJF contributed, along the studied period, to reach the aims that were stipulated by the Restructuring and Expansion Program of the Brazilian Universities to reduce dropout rate and to guarantee higher indices of graduation. The study is divided in three main parts, in the first chapter it is show both the national and the institutional scenarios of Student Assistance, consisting in a brief historical description and in demonstrating the format of the assistance to the supported students. Next, in chapter two, besides pointing the research methodology, it is presented the theoretical contributions about the themes aforementioned. In the third and last chapter it is presented the educational action proposals, aiming to the modernization of the institutional norm, coordinated with the national legislation and the increase in the number of supported students.