Abstract

CATANI, Afrânio Mendes  and  OLIVEIRA, João Ferreira de. A universidade pública no Brasil: identidade e projeto institucional em questão. Avaliação (Campinas) [online]. 1999, vol.04, n.04, suppl.01, pp.31-36. ISSN 1414-4077.

The diversification of higher education can neither signify a classificatory hierarchization nor serve as an alibi to drown the small and medium-size institutions in a world of mediocrity and conjectural necessaries. The mission of the university is valid for higher education as a whole: the university reenergizes itself through this historical capacity of being immersed in given objective conditions, in a specific time and space, remaining faithful to its nature and motivated by its primary vocation: to be a space of critical reflection, discovery, invention of new knowledge, committed to the construction and consolidation of a democratic society.

Keywords : Higher Education; University; Quality.

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