O Desenvolvimento Local e a relação com as Políticas Públicas REUNI e SISU: o estudo de caso da Universidade Federal de Pelotas

Abstract

In 2007, the Ministry of Education (MEC) began a policy of expansion and restructuring of Federal Universities, this expansion works with a Support Program to Plans Restructuring and Expansion of Federal Universities - the REUNI, which was implemented in Federal University of Pelotas - UFPel, in 2008, with the accession to the SISU - Unified Selection System, this institution was one of the pioneers in implementing this policy. Since its creation in 1968, the UFPel was seen as a way to bring more dynamism to Pelotas economy and help solve the historical problems that hindered, in view of its promoters, the development of the southern region as a whole (Magalhães, 1999 p. 44-45). Observing the intense expansion and reorganization of the Federal University of Pelotas and possible participation in the development of this city of Pelotas, this work aims to conduct an analysis on local development and the relationship with public policy REUNI and SISU implemented in UFPel.