Implantação de unidade educacional fora de sede na expansão e interiorização da educação superior: busca de indicadores de inovação regional

Abstract

This work was presented under the Program of Post Graduate in Production Engineering, research line "Quantitative Methods", dealing with the configuration and deployment of an Educational Unit outside the main campus of Federal University of Santa Maria, UFSM from 2006 to 2010. The research required a qualitative research, case study with descriptive and interpretive bias, organized from four different sources: bibliographic study; text documents, image and sound; interviews; allowing the argumentative construction and reliable mapping of the studied reality. The aim of this study is to analyze the CESNORS deployment experience in search of regional innovation indicators that stand in CESNORS creation process as an educational unit outside the main campus of UFSM and planned and implemented in the period of expansion of Brazilian higher education (after 2006). Developed conceptual axes were: a) higher education in Brazil; b) expansion of public federal universities as state policy; c) University Management Models for Innovation and d) Regional Socio-Economic Indicators. With these conceptual axes, the study proposes The analysis of state policy formation which led to the expansion of higher education in Brazil occurred from the first decade of this century, showing the relationship between a need to increase the supply of places in institutions Higher Education and government actions that gave the necessary response to the question. Deriving from this Policy, Higher Education Expansion took place already from 2003, and the case studied started with an agreement signed between UFSM and the Ministry of Education and Culture in late 2005. This work deals with the creation Centre for Higher Education in the North of Rio Grande do Sul (CESNORS) during the period of 2006 to 2010, in order to follow up the effectiveness of planning. The CESNORS was created in two cities 280 km far from the main campus, that are, Frederico Westphalen and Palmeira das Missões. The approach results in an analysis of socio-economic data of cities evolved, in order to create categories for further development, since the time window proposed for this work is short, focus on the initial period of the unit where the CESNORS did not yet developed its potential social impact. The contribution proposed here is an exploration of possible socio-economic improvements in the region covered by the project.