Gestão da política de assistência estudantil: uma análise a partir da evasão nos cursos de graduação na UFFS Campus Chapecó

Abstract

The creation of UFFS is part of a policy of expansion of places in higher education in the country, generating opportunity for many people could attend college. However, that institution comes registering high rates of evasion. Therefore, the present work has as its main objective to analyze the circumvention of the undergraduate courses offered by UFFS, campus Chapecó, as well as their main reasons, in the period from 2013 to 2017. The research is, therefore, as a case study and as a qualitative researchand descriptive. To make this possible, we used data and information provided by UFFS as the reports of the Office of the Dean of undergraduate education and the system of academic records (DRA), as well as through questionnaires applied to students the dropouts UFFS, campus Chapecó. The results showed that among the freshmen most is of female gender, aged 18 to 24 years and 74% are sourced from the State of Santa Catarina. General avoidance of campus Chapecó, in the analyzed period was 41.77%, medium evasion of the courses was in 47.82 percent, the largest of which were in graduate courses avoidance on the day shift, as in social sciences, geography and Philosophy. Among the courses of Bachelor's degree, the highest rates were in the course of computer science (nighttime), Environmental Engineering (full-time) and computer science (newspaper). It is worth mentioning that the students who received economic aid this index of circumvention is much smaller, 15.09%, indicating a positive result of the student assistance policy practiced by the University. In relation to causes/reasons for avoidance of course occur, mainly on the basis of exchanges of courses within the UFFS or to attend in other public INSTITUTIONS of HIGHER EDUCATION. The results pointed to by field research showed that the main reasons of avoidance are the impossibility of reconciling the schedule of classes and work, lack of time to study outside of class form, difficult to follow and content problems family.