Políticas de inclusão universitária: permanência estudantil na Universidade Federal do Piauí.

Abstract

This work was carried out with the main objective of knowing the operationalization of the permanence policy adopted in the UFPI and its implications on the Quality Indicators (IQ) published by Inep-MEC, referring to the evaluative cycles from 2007 to 2016, as a cut, the courses of the health area, in baccalaureate degree, taught at the Campus headquarters: Nursing, Pharmacy, Medicine, Nutrition and Dentistry. As specific objectives, we sought to understand: the IQ results, referring to the last three evaluative cycles, observing the qualitative and quantitative evolution in each cycle, through the concepts Enade, CPC and percentage of beneficiaries among the annual students, by integral course of the sample, as well as to investigate the extent of student assistance programs during the study period and the implications on the academic life of students in situations of socioeconomic vulnerability. The focus of the research was the UFPI, where there are no previous studies on thise subject. The methodological course involved: documentary research in official sources of the UFPI, Inep and CGU; interviews with managers and responsible for the operationalization of student assistance policy (PAE); information obtained through semi-structured questionnaires applied online to beneficiary students, non-beneficiaries, former beneficiaries, applicants to the benefits of the PAE, as well as teachers and servants who were willing to collaborate with the research. The results revealed that the permanence policy is composed of a set of actions developed in the context of teaching, research and extension and, more specifically, actions developed by the Pro-Rectory of Student and Community Affairs (Praec), at the expense of Pnaes, involving pecuniary resources, in the form of grants, exemption from food fees at university restaurants, housing at university residences and services: pedagogical, social, psychological and dental. The IQ of the courses studied, represented by the results Enade, showed that the concepts grew throughout the evaluative cycles and that, from the 2010 cycle, the courses had the general average and the specific component higher than the national average. Regarding the role of student assistance in completing the courses, the visualization was not so effective in all the courses studied, due to the reduced percentage of beneficiaries. In the Pharmacy and Nutrition courses, which had the highest number of beneficiaries (30% and 40%, respectively), it was possible to verify that, in the group formed by beneficiaries, the percentages of completion of courses in the regulatory time exceeded those in the group of not beneficiaries. In Medicine, Dentistry and Nursing courses, with lower percentages of beneficiaries (14%, 17% and 7%, respectively), the percentages of completion in the regulatory time were more effective in the group of non-beneficiaries. These results allow to infer that the permanence policy adopted by the UFPI tends to contribute so that the beneficiary scholars can finish their courses in the regular time. It is necessary to expand the research, to contemplate the totality of the courses, in order to better characterize the policy of permanence developed in the UFPI.