A universidade brasileira no período de 1960 a 2000: a influência empresarial em questão

Abstract

In the Operational University context (Chauí, 2003), the political reforms of higher education associate university and market and these changes bind on macrosocial determinants, as the neoliberalism advance in higher education. This dissertation has its main goal to analyze the features of Brazillian Contemporary University, characterized by Chauí (2003) as Operational University. To attend to this proposed goal, at first was presented an overview of the universities and next, understand the creation process of this teaching institution in Brazil. It is also analyzed the features of Brazilian university in University Reform in 1968 such moment, considered embryo of the current model, characterized by commercial and industrial influences, which becomes visible in the next moment of this paper when it is discussed about the university in the 1990s, regarding the State Reform and the document analysis Contribution of Industry to higher education reform (CNI, 2004). This paper is based on theoretical references which approach the university as research theme and point out the necessity and relevance to follow the directions that university has been taking. Was possible to verify that Brazilian university history is recent and was characterized in several ways on each historical moment, been used as a maintenance instrument of power and having its organization focused to political and economic needs of each period.