Fundações de apoio universitário no contexto das políticas para educação superior nos anos de 1990 : a experiência da universidade federal de Uberlândia

Abstract

This study is part of the Policy and Management in Education on line the Postgraduate Education of the Federal University of Uberlândia. Program and has as an object of research of University Support Foundation at the Federal University of Uberlândia. The investigated Support Foundation was founded in 1982 and aims to contribute to the UFU (University Federal Uberlândia) attaining its goals of teaching, research and extension. This study has as main objective to analyze the role of FAU front UFU in the context of educational policies for higher education on the threshold of the XXI century. Alongside this general goal, also intends to analyze the implications and FAU relations with UFU, their difficulties, the Foundation\'s impact in relation to teaching, his contribution with regard to funding and university autonomy in the context of political education to higher education in the 1990. Thus , discusses the role of FAU from socioeconomic changes that engender and determine educational policies , in particular those aimed at higher education , in late twentieth and early twenty-first century. Regarding the methodological aspect of this work is investigative in nature and falls qualitative methodological field , believing that the conduct of research in the methodological field allows the researcher to build a more global view on the social , economic and political aspects . The choice of FAU as an object of study was due to the great interaction that she has with the UFU , through the set of Academic Units comprising this University . The process of data collection used was the semistructured interview . The developed analysis reveals that the University Support Foundation , in its relationship with the UFU has much contributed to the revitalization of administrative actions within the academic units and the university itself as a whole. In turn , the impact of the FAU as regards the financing UFU , it was observed that it is significantly small, as the volume of funds raised , but of great importance to be reached the above dynamics. It was observed, too, that for most interviewees the participation of teachers in the University activities through FAU has brought greater damage to the set of activities developed by FAU has not brought greater damage to the set of activities such teachers at the University. Regarding the privatization of higher education, the interviewees show that the performance of foundations such as FAU is not decisive, because that privatization has walked through other tracks and has reached levels where the maintenance of some, free, public institutions ends up constituting balancing factor between the institutions at this level of education. Furthermore, it is concluded that the universities have greater autonomy, certainly, the performance and the role of foundations as FAU would rather minimized.