A (des)continuidade de programas sociais em organizações públicas de ensino superior: o caso do programa vizinhança na UFPel

Abstract

This work deals with the social service program of the Federal University of Pelotas (UFPel) called Programa Vizinhança (Neighborhood Program), while representing, at a micro level, the execution of a policy. The analysis addresses the decision-making process in this program, highlighting the dynamics of continuity and discontinuity that occur as a function of the organization's internal configurations. It considers that such setbacks occurred outside the relevance and return achieved by the program. It seeks to identify factors capable of impacting the continuity of the program. It highlights the political dimension as the main interference in the development of the initiative. It refutes the simple reissue of the program as a way to rescue the successful aspects of that practice. It emphasizes the inadequacy of this solution, due to the impossibility of reproducing the window of opportunity existing at the time of the conception of the action. It proposes the adoption of the curricularisation of extension, as recommended by strategy 12.7, annexed to law 13.005 / 2014, in order to preserve future actions to extend the disturbances imposed by conjunctural changes. Suggests the incorporation of the knowledge and residual structure of the Programa Vizinhança to the University and Society Integration Section of PREC, in order to implement a new body, designated to intermediate social service initiatives inside UFPel with the target public located around the Porto campus, and as a way of distancing social service programs from personalism, harmful to continuity.