Política de cotas na Universidade Federal de Uberlândia: Resultados da sua implementação para os licenciandos em Ciências Biológicas ingressantes no período de 2015 - 2017

Abstract

The quota policy consists of a measure that aims to correct, in the short term, a historical social and racial inequality in Brazil, and has been adopted in different institutions of higher education, after the enactment of Federal Law nº 12.711/2012. The present study aims to analyze the number of students graduating from the Biological Sciences Degree course at the Federal University of Uberlândia (UFU) Umuarama campus, in the Full / Night categories, in the period 2019 - 2022, comparing the number of quota holders and non-quota students graduating quota holders who entered between 2015 and 2017, considering the quota policy at the University. The methodology that indicates the technical means of investigation, which guide this work is the statistical one, characterized as a descriptive and explanatory study, with the objective of establishing a comparison between the number of students graduating quota holders and non-quota holders. As a data source, we used the UFU Portal (institutional website), whose information contained in the academic control systems used in this work are public, in the case of institutional and official data. We observed that the percentage of quota students graduating is very close to the percentage of non-quota students, demonstrating that quota and non-quota students have relatively proportional success rates for the analyzed period. Although the results are positive, the lack of monitoring of quota holders by universities and the inefficient monitoring, and surveys of concrete data by the Ministry of Education on the effectiveness of the Quota Law, point out that there are still great challenges for the permanence and completion of graduation by quota holders.