Gestão administrativa de secretarias integradas de cursos de graduação na UFSM: uma perspectiva de modernização e inovação

Abstract

This professional master's thesis is connected to the Research Line of Policies and Management of Basic and Higher Education of the Postgraduate Program in Public Policies and Educational Management of the Center for Education at the Federal University of Santa Maria (UFSM) and relates to the studies of the Research Group Gestar/CNPq. Its main objective is to understand the challenges and possibilities for modernization and innovation in the administrative management of integrated undergraduate courses at UFSM, as well as the experiences and possibilities that could contribute to their qualification. The specific objectives prioritizes: I) identifying the assumptions that form the basis of university administrative management; II) identifying the possibilities of modernization and innovation regarding the policies of the administrative university management; III) recognizing conceptions and indicators of quality in Higher Education in its relation to the assumptions that form the basis of university management; IV) knowing the types of administrative management of undergraduate courses at UFSM in their structures, challenges and possibilities for qualification; V) building patterns for qualification of the administrative management of integrated departments of undergraduate courses at UFSM. It is based on a qualitative research approach, as a comparative study of the departments of undergraduate courses at UFSM, using documentary research and an online questionnaire applied to free and informed servers linked to the departments and undergraduate courses. The results indicate to uncertainties about the functioning of the new administrative structures, as well as the understanding of the importance of joint definition about the routines for the qualification of the shared work. As an output of this research, quality parameters were elaborated and, also a suggestion of Draft Normative Resolution for integrated departments of graduation of UFSM, in consideration of its foundations and aspects of organization, resources, competencies and attributions, among others. As a synthesis of the results, we have identified that the academic community has perceived and understood the need for rearticulation and for modernization as well as innovation in the context of the departments of undergraduate courses, however, those involved in this proposed change are still unclear as to how these innovations can be realized or how the administrative activities will be organized, effectively integrated and separated from the pedagogical aspects of the undergraduate courses. We have concluded that it is not enough to just gather courses in a single physical space with joint resources, since the differential is precisely in the capacity of [re]articulation of the work that needs to be joint and collaborative, in a perspective of democraticparticipative management.