Evasão, um problema comum, origens diversas: um estudo sobre a evasão entre os diferentes grupos de alunos da UFJF

Abstract

This works, developed for the Professional Master in Management and Evaluation of Public Education, has as study object the evasion in public higher education, specifically in the Federal University of Juiz de Fora (UFJF). In this context, this study also addresses the expansion of vacancies in public higher education that occurred in recent years, and the adoption of quota policy by the federal public universities, factors that may have contributed to a change in the profile of students. For the data presentation and analysis, we took as base the annual evasion in the institution, and they were considered the enrollment groups, formed by quota and non-quota students. The analyses showed that the UFJF does not have information and indicators about the main reasons for dropout in the undergraduate study groups. Therefore, this case study aims to propose a management tool that provides the institution with information and indicators on the reasons for graduation evasion, with the purpose of adopting institutional mechanisms which may reduce it. For that, it was made a survey of data on evasion in the studied university with students entering between 2010 and the first semester of 2015. The survey carried out deals with admission groups, year of cancellation of enrollment, and the courses. In addition, interviews were conducted with the managers of the Undergraduate ProRector Office, the Student Assistance and Inclusive Education Pro-Rectory, Affirmative Action Directorate and Coordination of Academic Affairs and Records. The interviews proved the lack of accurate information about the evasion and its causes, and allowed a better knowledge about some of the proposals and needs of the managers, besides proving that evasion is undoubtedly a problem of institutional management. From this perspective, the Intervention Plan proposes a systematization of data on evasion and the creation of a special commission to discuss evasion in the Federal University of Juiz de Fora.