An Overview of Affirmative Action Policies in Public Federal Universities in Southeast Brazil

Abstract

This article deals with how Brazilian students from underrepresented groups have access to higher education, and how is their permanence in it. It aims to provide an overview of the treatment of affirmative action policies in federal universities in southeastern Brazil. A wide range of official documents of all nineteen federal universities in this Brazilian region was analyzed. After data analyses, three categories were constructed: admission, post-admission support, and pedagogical programs for student permanence. This study indicates that a broader understanding of how affirmative actions are treated is critical if they are to achieve their goals, particularly with regard to the permanence of benefited students.

Mapping the inclusion of affirmative policies in postgraduate nursing courses

“…In the study, it was observed that the Southeast Region had the highest number of programs (24), considering the important factors of demographic density and the number of public universities that offer graduate programs in Nursing, followed by the Northeast, with 18 programs, South, with 15, Midwest, with six, and North, with four programs (Figure 1).…”

“…The South Region, characterized by having the smallest territorial extension at the national level, for having an influential economy and for being the second most populous division in the country, has three states in its composition, which offer AP vacancies in their programs. In the region, measures for the integration of vulnerable students have been discussed, since graduation, through the guarantee of permanence of these students in courses and the strong presence of interculturality in university spaces ( 13 , 22 , 23 , 24 ) .…”

Mapeamento da inserção de políticas afirmativas em cursos de pós-graduação em enfermagem

“…No estudo, observou-se que a Região Sudeste apresentou o maior número de programas (24), considerando-se os importantes fatores da densidade demográfica e do quantitativo de universidades públicas que disponibilizam programas de pósgraduação em Enfermagem. Em seguida perfila as regiões Nordeste, com 18 programas; Sul, com 15; Centro-Oeste, com seis; Norte, com quatro programas (Figura 1).…”

“…Na região, as medidas de integração de estudantes em condição de vulnerabilidade vêm sendo discutidas desde a graduação. E isto se dá por meio da garantia de permanência destes alunos nos cursos e da forte presença da interculturalidade nos espaços universitários (13,(22)(23)(24) .…”

Dual career in Brazil: analysis on men elite futsal players’ academic degree (Carrera dual en Brasil: análisis sobre el nivel académico de los jugadores de futsal de élite)

“…This scenario can be seen as a way of corroborating and strengthening affirmative policies in the field of education, a necessary initiative to the access of students with socioeconomic and sociocultural unpriviledged condition to higher education degree (Piotto & Alves, 2016;Silva, 2019). In the study participants' case, sport scholarships seem to have played an important role in improving the access to the private school/ university, overcoming possible effects of family cultural inheritance (or the lack of this), and providing the opportunities for a higher academic degree to athletes in comparison with their parents.…”