A expansão universitária e o Programa de Educação Tutorial – PET no Centro de Desenvolvimento Sustentável do Semiárido no período de 2011 a 2016.

Abstract

This work deals with a relevant study about the university expansion in Brazil from the years 2002, correlating with a case study on the Extension Program Tutorial - PET of the Center for Sustainable Development of the Semiarid. The central axes of the work are about the internalization of the campuses and also how this public policy can impact the local society. In a broader approach, it is investigated, as the CDSA PET, fruit of this process of internalization, contributes to the process of social transformation in that region. This research is justified by the need to elaborate an in-depth analysis on the subject, since there are few studies on these issues, especially CDSA and PET. For this, the methods that were used to develop this article started from a case study, with quantitative and qualitative bibliographic research, of descriptive character, comprising the period from 2002 to 2018. The main points registered in the work are the economic and social impacts that the construction of higher education centers brings to the regions where they were installed and how the university extension models, even in a specific way, a more citizen society, refuting in many cases the common sense that the university does not promote the transforming results. Finally, the paper presents, in a succinct way, all the pillars in relation to university expansion, correlating these analyzes with the actions developed in the PET / CDSA, center of a policy of university expansion.