Avaliação do impacto da política de cotas na Unioeste: quem de fato foi incluído?

Abstract

The objective of this study is to evaluate the impact of the quota policy at the State University of the West of Paraná - Unioeste - Campus de Cascavel, which was implemented in the institution in the year 2009. The cut for this research are the students from the 2009 period 2016. The intention is to verify if the implementation of the quotas in the university has had an impact in the undergraduate courses, increasing the number of students of public schools, as well as to verify who they are included, if they remain in the university and what their academic performance in non-quota students. The research is of quantitative nature and the methodological procedure for the accomplishment of this study was based on the cadastral information of the academic life of the students, which is in the computerized system of the Unioeste called "Academus", being used the universe of the data, that is, this study did not is by sampling. The micro data were provided by the Unioeste Technology Center. The result of the research indicates that there was a high impact of the quota policy in the university, with a high increase in the number of public school students, especially in the courses where there is greater competition in the selective admission process, reaching a percentage of 390% in the medical case The study also revealed that the included students are: economically most needy; that these students, in the general average, enter younger, have a higher grade of achievement, have fewer disapprovals, are less likely to graduate from the university and are more educated. As well as, once included, these students do not interfere, negatively, in the quality of the teaching of the institution, demystifying the idea that the quotaholders would possibly lower the level of education in the universities.