Elaboração de um código de conduta discente para a Universidade Federal de Alagoas – UFAL

Abstract

Considering the disciplinary power inherent to the Public Administration and the duty of reporting specific to public agents, possible infractions identified within the scope of the Institution need to be investigated following the relevant procedural guarantees. In the case of students linked to the public agency, the Student Disciplinary Process - SDP is constituted as the appropriate instrument for the investigation of practices subject to penalty. However, given the absence of specific regulations, the Administration may not fulfill its objective, as well as the procedures may not guarantee effective legal certainty and be susceptible to nullities. Thus, this work aims to propose a Code of Student Conduct for the Federal University of Alagoas (Ufal). To achieve the proposed objective, we sought to describe the foundations of student investigation procedures within the disciplinary scope of Ufal, with the exposure of the instruments that are currently used, to analyze the conditions of effectiveness in the establishment and conduct of Student Disciplinary Process in the period of 2015 to 2019 within the scope of Ufal; to verify the relationship between the results of disciplinary procedures and the amount of regimental violations practiced by undergraduate students in the face-to-face modality within Ufal, at Campus A. C. Simões; and to carry out a survey at federal universities in Brazilian capitals in order to obtain information on the number of SDPs, the specifications of the violations verified/under investigation and the number of processes concluded with sanction of exclusion or suspension from 2015 to 2020. The research adopted a mixed methodological approach, with the combination of qualitative and quantitative techniques, using the literature review and documental research, as well as the use of a questionnaire, semi-structured interview. With this, there was a need to improve the transparency of the student disciplinary regime at Ufal, in the composition of the commissions, in the subjective relationships, and in the structure and process for the development of SDPs, as well as a more restorative procedural conclusion. After the presentation of the results, it was indicated the elaboration of a Code of Student Conduct - CSC that aims to regulate the disciplinary procedures to students within the scope of the institution with the alignment of the norms to be built with justice, democracy and integral human formation.