HIGHER EDUCATION: A STUDY ON STUDENT ASSISTANCE POLICY IN THE UFOPA TRAJECTORY
Higher Education. Student Assistance. Public policy. Right.
The present study has as its theme the “Higher Education: A Study on the Policy of Student Assistance in the UFOPA Trajectory”. The research proposal was delimited to the three Institution Units located in the Municipality of Santarém-Pa. The pertinent analyzes here discuss from the historical process of insertion of the higher education in Brazil, incursing by the policies of permanence of the student in the Universities over time, until reaching the main focus of this investigation, that is the approach with the actors of UFOPA, directly involved with student care management in the academic setting. The analysis discusses meanings of student assistance policy, its materiality, the right to education, university stay and equity. This is a qualitative research with quantitative data, based on the historical-dialectical materialism method, understood here as the most appropriate for this type of approach. As a problem to be solved by this study, it was asked: “How did the Student Assistance Policy of the Federal University of Western Pará materialize along its trajectory?” Thus, the main objective is to analyze the policy implementation process. student assistance at the Federal University of Western Pará, along its path. As sources of study, were used in addition to analyzes in institutional documents, such as resolutions, legislations, management reports, budget tables and institutional histories, semi-structured interviews with administrative technicians, managers and former managers of the Dean of Student Management , as well as informal conversations and questionnaires applied on the Google Forms platform for UFOPA active-learner students who are student assistance users. This incursion is still initial, much to be deepened, but preliminarily it is noticed that in the Institution there are some constraints to the equalization of human rights to education, since in face of the political context, they attach student assistance much more to the logic of service than to right.