CONCEIVING BRIDGES – on the correlation between the production of a professional master and the strategic planning in a federal educational institution.
Professional master's degree. Graduate studies. Public university. University management.
Since 1965, when the Sucupira Report was issued, there has been raised the possibility of creating educational policies for higher education with a better response to the demands and solutions of immediate problems in both the public and private sectors. By analyzing the trajectories that led to the emergence of the stricto sensu post-graduate modality known as Professional Master's degree, this research aims to bring about elements to support the analysis of the alignment between the academic research of the Professional Master in Institutional Processes Management (MPGPI-UFRN) and the strategic objectives of the Institutional Development Plan (PDI) of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN), considering the new requirements of the postgraduate evaluation proposed by the Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES), which focus on the importance of the relationship between strategic planning and intellectual production in the professional master's degree. Based on a method proposed by Laurence Bardin (1977) known as content analysis, 96 masters dissertations presented from 2017 to 2020 will be analyzed in order to raise questions and to understand how the nature of the academic research offered by the Professional Master in Management of Institutional Processes can encourage the development of innovative management practices and organizational policies at UFRN and at both public and private institutions, grounded on the practical capability that these researches inherently hold in favor of solutions of problems outside the walls of the university.