Access to higher education in the process of expansion of the Universidade do Estado de Mato Grosso – UNEMAT

Abstract

We discussed the process of expansion and democratization at the State University of Mato Grosso - Unemat from the perspective of participatory democracy in Santos (2002).What policies and expansion programs implemented by the IES that contribute to the democratization of access? What is the profile of the Unemat participant? We use the case study as a methodology. We analyzed documents about the trajectory of the IES; we identified Programs and actions for access and we profiled the participants in the period from 2005 to 2011, from the database ENGRESSANTES. The results show that access is being thought of at Unemat, only in terms of the size of the entrance; it can therefore be considered as being democratized, as the IES serves traditional communities and students, most of them from public schools, blacks (colored or black), low income, the unemployed and unmarried. However, we reaffirm the incompleteness in the analyzes on the democratization of higher education only by the dimension of entry, since we understand access in interdependence, entry, permanence, completion and quality teaching.