UFSC receives maximum grade in institutional reaccreditation process
The Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC) received from the Ministry of Education (MEC) the maximum grade in its institutional reaccreditation process, recently completed. The final grade for UFSC was in the range of 5, and the final continuous grade was 4.96. With this result, the University is among the institutions with level of excellence in the evaluation of the Anísio Teixeira National Institute for Educational Studies and Research (Inep). The last UFSC reaccreditation process was carried out in 2013.
The reaccreditation evaluation process began in September 2024, with the constitution of a committee of three evaluators appointed by Inep. From then on, UFSC began to file a series of documents in the e-MEC system, including the Institutional Development Plan (PDI), Risk Management Plan, evaluation reports, ordinances, resolutions, regulations, reports and institutional policies.
Between 11 and 13 November, members of the committee carried out an on-site visit to the University – in fact, a virtual visit. On the first day of the visit, the committee was welcomed by the rector Irineu Manoel de Souza, the vice-rector Joana Célia dos Passos, pro-rectors, secretaries, the Institutional Attorney of UFSC and president of the Institutional Evaluation Commission (CPA), in addition to other university leaders. Subsequently, the committee virtually visited part of the premises of UFSC campus in Florianópolis. The visit lasted four hours and presented the University Library, the Culture and Events Center and their living areas, areas for sports such as gymnasium and swimming pool, Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology (Marque), University Restaurant, practical class environments, classrooms, laboratories and living places of the School of Health Sciences (CCS), School of Biological Sciences (CCB), School of Technology (CTC), School of Sports (CDS); School of Education (CED) and School of Philosophy and Human Sciences (CFH). Other Education Centers that didn’t receive the virtual tour sent in videos, including the Student Housing and the Planetarium.
The committee also had access to institutional videos and held meetings with faculty, students, technical-administrative staff (TAEs) and the Institutional Evaluation Commission itself. In these meetings with members of the categories, there was representation of the entire UFSC community.
The institutional evaluation for reaccreditation took into account aspects such as accessibility, position and career plans for faculty and TAEs, Faculty Qualification Index (IQCD), degree, number of foreign faculty and students and socio-environmental sustainability, among others.
In the report prepared by the committee, UFSC scored 5 in all items of Axis 1 – Institutional Planning and Evaluation; in all items of Axis 2 – Institutional Development; Axis 3 – Academic Policies; and Axis 4 – Management Policies. In Axis 5 – Infrastructure, the grade was 4.88, with grade 4 in only two out of 17 items evaluated (Sanitary facilities and Technological infrastructure). In the qualitative analysis of Axis 5, however, the committee stated that “the University’s infrastructure is robust and up to date, fully meeting institutional needs”.
Rector Irineu Manoel de Souza stated that the maximum grade obtained by UFSC in the institutional reaccreditation process is a collective achievement of the university community. He highlighted the maximum grades obtained in the dimensions of planning, evaluation and institutional development, in addition to academic and management policies. “We would like thank everyone who was involved in this process, especially the School Deans and everyone who contributed showing our facilities to the MEC evaluation committee”.
Translated by SINTER/UFSC.
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