Abstract
This text was made with the preliminary results of a research that has sought to analyze the creating process of four federal universities in Brazil as part of a national strategy for regional/territorial development. These university institutions are known as “brand-new Brazilian federal universities” because they were created under the aegis of a national public policy that understood higher education as a development strategy for the territories of Brazil. Given the possibilities of disseminating scientific research findings, the cordel format was used as one of these chances, since the revelation of the bases of assembly of the analyzed universities could be translated into different formats, such as the cordel. It is assumed that this literary species can approach the phenomenon of constitution of two of these universities − one in Bahia and the other in Ceará − from poetry, rhyme, and metrics very specific to cordel. At the end of this work, some contributions to the theme are presented, aligned with themes such as sustainability, public policies, regional/territorial development, and local issues, among others.
Keywords
regional development; public policy; higher education; brand-new federal universities; cordel