Políticas públicas de expansão do ensino superior : a implementação do PROUNI e FIES por instituições comunitárias de ensino superior no RS.

Abstract

This study analyzes how the public policies of expansion of Brazilian higher education, initiated from the 2000s, were interpreted and implemented by the Community Institutions of Higher Education (ICES). Taking as an empirical reference two institutions located in the State of Rio Grande do Sul, the University of Santa Cruz do Sul (UNISC) and the Regional University of the Northwest of the State of Rio Grande do Sul (UNIJUÍ). It was investigated how these institutions have appropriated these public policies, especially the University for All Program (PROUNI) and Student Financing (FIES) in the critical juncture established between 2010 and 2015. These higher education community institutions have peculiarities in relation to public and private higher education institutions, since they are constituted from the organization of several segments of the regional community and are not owned by an individual or a private group, being situated in the sphere of the non-state public organizations. Based on the theoretical contribution of historical institutionalism, one can see how the institutional trajectories of these ICES, which share the same model of university, have produced different results in their relationship with public policies and its developments in the present. The research was performed starting from several research strategies combining multiple case studies, semi-structured interviews with the managers of the researched institutions, documentary research and analysis of secondary data. As result, the study points out that the investigated ICES presented distinct appropriations of FIES and PROUNI, conditioned by their institutional history, their status quo in the territory and the resources (relational, financial and organizational) that they had at the due the policy juncture.