Avaliação do plano de desenvolvimento institucional da Universidade Estadual de Mato Grosso do Sul como instrumento de gestão

Abstract

Through the institution of SINAES, the Institutional Development Plan (IDP) has acquired a prominent role in the context of the Higher Education Institution (HEI), both for its mandatory content and its possibilities. Elaborated for a period of 5 years, the IDP is a document that identifies the HEI regarding to its work philosophy, its mission, the pedagogical guidelines that guide its actions, its organizational structure and the academic activities that it pursues develops or intends to develop. Due to its characteristics and mandatory content, the IDP can be a fundamental management tool for the HEI. In a search for the subject in the literature, it was observed that the IDP often presented itself only as a bureaucratic requirement met by universities. In this context, the present research dealt with the and analyzed the context of the IDP in a specific institution: UEMS. In addition, its general objective was to propose actions to make UEMS’s IDP more effective in its institutional context. From the methodological point of view, the research is descriptive, bibliographical and documentary, and its approach is qualitative. The results indicated that: the IDP is the reference for all UEMS activities; is called by its makers as the strategic planning (SP) of the institution; and that over time the document has evolved from a bureaucratic aspect to a quest to represent the institutional SP. However, according to the assumptions adopted, improvements are required regarding its content and its construction process. In addition, an undesirable level of lack of knowledge of the academic community about the IDP was also observed.