Rompendo os muros e construindo pontes: uma análise sobre as políticas de ações afirmativas durante a pandemia da Covid-19

Abstract

Affirmative action policies aim to bring reparation and/or compensation to people who are in social vulnerability. And in bringing this concept, this study aimed to identify the impacts of financial aid, derived from affirmative action policies for permanence in higher education, in the socioeconomic situation of students of the Accounting Sciences course of the Faculty of Administration, Accounting Sciences, Production Engineering and Social Service (Faces) of the Federal University of Uberlândia during the COVID-19 pandemic . To perform this research, we used a bibliographic survey and a quantitative approach with a descriptive data analysis of the survey data carried out with the Pro-Rectory of Student Assistance (Proae) and the data collected through a questionnaire with the assisted students. The main results suggest that the financial aid offered by Proae brought positive impacts on the socioeconomic situation of students of the Accounting Course during the pandemic moment, where reductions in the levels of anxiety, stress and/or irritability and an increase in the academic performance of these students were presented, based on their own perceptions. In addition, it is noticed that food aid is the one with the highest number of distributions during 2020 and 2021, followed by emergency aid for digital inclusion.