O Reuni e a Reforma Neoliberal do Ensino Superior nas Universidades Federais

Abstract

This paper deals with REUNI (Program to Support Federal University Restructuring and Expansion Plans), seeking to analyze it based on its relationship with neoliberal guidelines in the scenario of capital offensive on social policies; where it is demanded through the action of the State, "reforms" to meet the new capitalist interests, demanded by the current crisis of the capital. In this context, higher education starts to meet the needs of capital expansion more intensely, while the university is reconfigured by the logic of mercantilization and financialization of higher education. REUNI is presented by the Lula government as a program that has as its central goal the expansion of public higher education, but contrary to what the official discourse makes it seem, the program actually presents itself as another form of scrapping and precariousness of federal universities , to benefit the private sector and meet the requirements of international higher education financialization and commercialization bodies. The choice of the object of study was motivated by experiences within the student movement and observations of the precarious conditions in the academic scope of UFAL. To better understand the object of study in its entirety, the research was based on the theoretical-methodological framework with a historical-critical basis. Marxist-based bibliographic research was based predominantly on the concepts of Tonet, Santos Neto, Netto and Braz, Lima, Leher, Santos, Bastos and Cunha. In order to prove our surveys on REUNI, we also collected data to analyze the implications of the program within Federal Universities and thus base our analysis.