Academic Project and democratic management in public higher education: the case of UNIFESP – Guarulhos campus

Abstract

This work presents an experience report about the academic management (2013-2017) in the Human Sciences´campus of the Federal University of São Paulo (Unifesp), based in Guarulhos/SP, Brazil. We highlight three important aspects involved in the consolidation process of the campus and which we seek to problematize in the text: i) a perspective of democratic management, the incentive to the ecology of knowledge and the expansion of the social appropriation of the campus in its territory; ii) the limits and possibilities of collective production Political Pedagogical Project of the campus, with the identification of convergent points and their interfaces; iii) the presentation of the main academic results achieved in the period analyzed in the areas of teaching, research and extension. In the period of academic management, there were significant advances in terms of infrastructure and internal democratization, but it was not possible to construct - effectively and collectively - a solid, integrated and integrative Pedagogical Political Project. Nevertheless, important academic results were obtained for the campus, for Unifesp and also for the municipality of Guarulhos, in the areas of teaching, research and extension, even in an environment of clear dispute for internal hegemony on campus, considering the context of your implementation process.