PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP IN THE MANAGEMENT OF THE BRAZILIAN PUBLIC UNIVERSITY

Abstract

The article analyzes the reform occurred, in both, of the State apparatus and the higher education system adopted in Brazil, at the end of the 20th century and early in the 21st. It argues that such a reform creates a new organization and administration model in public universities grounded on the management paradigm of administration in order to adjust those institutions to the privatization productivism logics and commercialization of academic production, supplies and services. Therefore principles such as flexibility, diversity and competitiveness were adopted by those institutions to achieve the contention of public expenses. As a result of that policy, based on fiscal adjustment and cuts in the social costs, the universities have been induced to searching for resources in the market through the establishment of public and private partnerships.