The expansion of Universidade Federal do Amazonas

implications from financing in times of crisis

Abstract

In this article, we start from the material reality of the expansion of Universidade Federal do Amazonas (UFAM), ongoing in the interior of the state, to analyze: the financing; the quantitative objective of access to higher education, estimated by the federal government; the positive evaluations of the federal government on the Program to Support Restructuring Plans for the Expansion of Federal Universities (Reuni); and elements inserted in the context of the society of the capital in crisis. Our hypothesis is a determinant link between the financing and the categorization of a precarious education in UFAM's expansion camp, as a reflection of the global conjuncture of the crisis of capital continuity and the Temer Government's adjustment policies for higher education.