The text seeks to contribute to the discussion and understanding of the change in public universities, especially to understand teaching in the expansion of graduate studies in the 1990s and 2000s, when the country sought to upgrade/adequate its economic fundamentals to the transition from the Monopoly Accumulation Regime to the Financial Accumulation Regime and its structural consequences for the republican institutions, with a strong emphasis on the public university. This article focuses on the change of research professors in the face of the sharp expansion of graduate studies in Brazil and its consequences for them as social beings who work, the meaning of their work and the sense that they attach to their lives due to this fundamental mediation.
expansion of public universities; teaching; graduate studies
