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Metamorfoses de uma universidade: os estudantes da USP entre 2000 e 2020

2024; UNIVERSIDADE DE SÃO PAULO; Volume: 36; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.11606/0103-2070.ts.2024.222323

1809-4554

Ana Maria F. Almeida, Graziela Serroni Perosa, Guilherme Lamana, Rafael Pimentel Maia,

Education Pedagogy and Practices

Following the end of the authoritarian regime and the increase in elementary and secondaryeducation in the 1990s, there was a rise in demands for broader access to higher education and for public universities to become more inclusive to historically underrepresented groups. This article explores how USP responded to them by discussing the expansion of recruitment and the adoption of affirmative actions and retention policies. Furthermore, we examine the changes in the composition of the student body. Our analysis highlights the gains, contradictions, and asymmetries that have emerged during this university’s recent democratization process.