O REUNI na UFJF: um estudo sobre os principais desafios enfrentados pelos gestores

Abstract

Higher education in Brazil has been going through great changes mainly as a consequence of the public policies developed by the federal government. The federal government, having as an objective the broading of access and staying of the alumni in university education and obtaining a better use of the physical structure and human resources already existent in the federal universities, established through the decree number 6.096/2007 a Supporting Program to the Federal Universities Restructuring and Expansion Plans– REUNI. Conceived under the perspective of the accountability of universities’ management, as REUNI associates goals of expansion of the offer of higher education, not only in undergraduate but also in graduate courses, counting on capital investments, structural and human resources expansion, it also has brought an even bigger commitment to the univesity managers when it comes to meeting the goals stablished by the Program. This way, facing this new scenery and bearing in mind that the Federal University of Juiz de Fora (UFJF) has adpoted REUNI, this work has the means to analyze the main challenges confronted by the managers of the academic units of UFJF in face of the expansion process that has occured in the institution’s campus and the increasing of access to higher education provided by REUNI, identifying important changes that took place in their academic and administrative routines. This is a case study of qualitative approach with data collection and bibliographic research, such as the legislation concerning REUNI and UFJF’s project of adopting the program, in addition to field research, in which five managers have been interviewed (Directors of Academic Units and Dean) and the difficulties they confront when it comes to the human resources and structural enlarging of the institution, confronting the university’s public policies for the higher education. Given this, an intervention proposal is made, by the means of implementing discussion workshops and evaluating the impacts of REUNI at UFJF, and having as a target audience the directors of the academic units as well as the other professionals that work with management and planning at the institution.