| UNIVERSITY |
PROGRAM, PROJECT OR ACTION |
SUMMARY |
| Ufla MG |
Board of Education Support and Development |
A body linked to the Dean’s Office for Undergraduate Affairs, responsible for providing support, within its scope, for teaching activities at the Federal University of Lavras. It promotes continuing education for faculty and provides advice on the planning of curricular and teaching activities, and support to management staff, besides promoting educational events and the integration of students in the solution of teaching-learning problems. It conducts pedagogical workshops for students and faculty throughout the academic year. |
| UFJF MG |
Individual Service |
Pedagogical support: it aims to reduce pedagogical deficiencies, stimulate and facilitate students’ permanence in the course and advise students with regard to the didactic and pedagogical demands. This service is available to students daily in the afternoon. Psychosocial care: it provides guidance, referrals and social and psychological assessments. It is aimed at receiving and guiding students. It is a time dedicated to listening and reflecting on daily emotions in order to provide support, help and referral to other care services when necessary. The service is available daily, mornings and evenings. |
| UFV MG |
Tutorial Program in Basic Sciences |
Linked to the Dean’s Office for Education Affairs, this program began in 2000 and serves the areas of Biology, Physics, Portuguese, Mathematics, Chemistry, and Biochemistry. Its purpose is to provide academic and pedagogical support to students who have entered the institution with a lack of prior knowledge in these areas. Their difficulties are determined by the success rate in the multiple choice questions or the composition test in the university’s admission exam (Enem or Sisu), or in the student’s performance in a regular course where she/he has failed. The goal of this program is to reduce the basic knowledge gap of students admitted in the University in order to reduce discipline failure and dropout rates and, therefore, their period in the University, while increasing training quality. |
| UFU MG |
Pro-Rectory Graduate Projects Set |
Renovar Project: seeks to reduce the failure rate in the university’s undergraduate programs through teaching-learning actions (training), as well as psychosocial service for students with more than one failure by providing a space to critically reflect on their trajectory in academic life.
Study Planning Project: this helps students with the threefold dimension of learning, studying and researching by providing conditions to master methods and techniques of planning, reading, recording and academic writing.
Research Support Project: this aims to support students with end-of-course projects, research projects and monographs. |
| UNIVERSITY |
PROGRAM, PROJECT OR ACTION |
SUMMARY |
| Ufes ES |
Institutional Support Program (ISP) |
This program emerged from the need for institutional action to support undergraduate students in order to promote academic success and combat retention, discontinuation and dropout in the Ufes’ undergraduate programs. The program proposes the creation of activities that promote a better inclusion of students into the academic environment, monitor their performance over the course and help them with their transition to professional life. The program can also develop students’ protagonist roles in their own education. The ISP is comprised of activities designed to involve faculty, management staff and students so as to affirmatively promote student’s sense of belonging in the courses and the University. In addition, the program seeks to overcome the concept of teaching based on the transmission of knowledge by promoting the participation of students and faculty and stimulating the experience of new ways of teaching and learning. |
| UFABC SP |
Set of programs related to the Dean’s Office for Undergraduate Affairs |
Teaching and Tutorial Learning Program: a unique academic guidance program that promotes student advice by a faculty member (tutor). The program seeks to: promote students’ adaptation to the university through the presentation and dissemination of the Institutional Pedagogical Project; to guide students towards a smooth, organized transition from high school to college, thus promoting a better academic performance; to provide the student with knowledge and reflection on all spheres of academic life; to bring students to recognize, experience and reflect on the interdisciplinary nature of scientific and technological knowledge and the relationship between teaching, research and outreach and the university environment in general; to encourage independence and autonomy so as to make the student an entrepreneur with regard to his own education and to foster students’ reflection about the learning process; to promote student integration into the academic environment; and to enable students to make curricular and educational choices in line with their interests and undergraduate norms. The tutor is an academic advisor with greater experienced and a personal history in higher education.
Academic Support and Development Program: this provides, among others, guidance on studying, enrollment and UFABC bachelor-level program curriculums.
University Introduction Course (CIU): this aims to introduce students into academic life by presenting the necessary tools for this new stage, which requires adaptation to the academic environment, with a new study pace and with contact with scientific research and outreach activities. The CIU discusses the following topics: higher education system and study organization; sciences and the scientific debate; mathematics in higher education; reading and interpretation of scientific texts. |
| UFSCar SP |
Pro-Study |
It seeks to support undergraduate students in developing their studying skills so as to prepare them not only for a better use of educational activities but also for a study practice that is rewarding and goes beyond academic demands. This program conducts a set of actions to maximize students’ use of their study time in all circumstances, through the following products and services: lectures on how to study; printed guidelines on how to study properly; study training workshops; the UFSCar’s program of activities for newly admitted students; a study guidance room; and activities related to identifying the university community’s needs concerning studying, as well as the implementation of actions to meet such needs. |
| UNIVERSITY |
PROGRAM, PROJECT OR ACTION |
SUMMARY |
| UFF RJ |
Academic Development Scholarship Program |
The general objective of the Academic Development Scholarship Program is to integrate socioeconomic and academic supports so as to contribute to the complete development of socioeconomically vulnerable students and to ensure the permanence and graduation of students. The specific objectives of the program are: to enable the UFF’s socioeconomically vulnerable student to receive financial assistance through PNAES resources or, where that is not possible, to make other funding schemes available; to promote academic guidance for students enrolled in this type of scholarship; to ensure that studies occur according to such guidance so as to increase these students’ knowledge and introduce them to research; to improve scholarship holders’ academic achievement; and contribute to reduce dropout and retention rates. |
| Unirio RJ |
Set of Programs |
Undergraduate Student Support Program (Pradig): this program seeks to help students’ training by making them experience an environment close to that of the work they will perform after graduation, and to prepare students in activities pertaining to their area of training, as well as to develop methods for internalizing activities related to their undergraduate program. The program also provides financial support - R$ 400.00 - for students who participate in these actions.
Special Tutoring Program (Protes): this program is designed to assist students admitted to Unirio and those who fail in basic undergraduate subjects. It is regulated by Resolution No. 4,151, of July 9, 2013. |
AN OVERVIEW OF AFFIRMATIVE ACTION POLICIES IN PUBLIC FEDERAL UNIVERSITIES IN SOUTHEAST BRAZIL