ACADEMIC ADVISING: BETWEEN THE PRESCRIBED AND THE PRACTICED IN A FEDERAL HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTION
Academic Advising. Academic Indicators. Undergraduate Courses. UniversityTeaching.
Considering the importance of academic advising process on the improvement of the results achieved by undergraduate courses at UFRN, it was sought to analyse academic advising practices as they actually happen at CCSA/UFRN in comparison to what was prescribed for this process in UFRN regulation. In order to do so, we interviewed seven course coordinators and nine academic advisors, representing, thus, all CCSA presential undergraduate courses. The information treatment was performed through the content analysis of Bardin (2011) and the IRaMuTeQ Software. Content analysis revealed the categories: University Teaching / Academic Advising / Academic Management and IRaMuTeQ identified three classes: Academic Advising Agents / Academic Advising Operation / The Role of University Teachers. These categories and classes revealed the relationship between what is prescribed and what is practiced in the academic advising in the CCSA / UFRN presential undergraduate courses. Concluding that academic advising is a historical process established since 1975 by Resolução 110/75-CONSEPE [a resolution by UFRN legislative body] of 19 of September 1975, contradicting so the institutional presupposition of its non-existence, revealed by the document "IndicadoresAcadêmicos da Expansãona UFRN – Análise e Encaminhamentos". Also that there is an identity movement between the role of the university professor prescribed in the norm and the requirements to act in higher education in the current scenario. As well as, there are planning elements that might be added to the participants’ suggestions for elaboration of intervention actions for courses improvement.