Student permanence and university autonomy: the SiSU issue in the context of a state university in the interior of Bahia

Among the twenty-one strategies expressed in the National Plan of Education (PNE) to achieve goal 12, strategy 12.5 associates the expansion of the policy of student stay in higher education with the policies of access, inclusion, affirmative action and student assistance, as a way to ensure academic success for students at this level of education. In light of this strategy, the present study aims to analyze the policy of student stay adopted by a state university in the interior of Bahia in the context of adherence to the Unified Selection System (SySU), a policy of external access to the university and comprehensiveness national. In order to do so, the methodological course consisted of bibliographic review, documentary research and field research, whose data and information were systematized and analyzed through the technique called content analysis. Among the results obtained, it was observed that access to student residence policies is still restricted, bureaucratic and has little visibility in the institution, due to the existence of an extremely demanding student socioeconomic profile. However, adherence to policies linked to the democratization of access to higher education, as a way to raise financial resources for the execution of student stay at university, brings with it the following concern: what is democratizing in a logic in which does a selection process need to be segregated? This is an issue that will undoubtedly not be exhausted in this study.

Keywords:
Democratization; College education; Student stay; National Education Plan (PNE); Unified Selection System (SySU)