PUBLIC UNIVERSITY: MAPPING OF POLICIES OF EDUCATION, RESEARCH, EXTENSION AND INNOVATION

In order to understand the place of the university in the progress of nations, we are guided by the following research question: what is the predominant institutional discourse of the public university when it refers to its policies of teaching, research, extension and innovation, having as reference point the Institutional Development Plan? The study aims to: understand the concept of university in the course of its history as an institution; identify the challenges of the university facing the dimensions of development promoted from the knowledge produced in the context of this institution; analyze the statements of the Institutional Development Plans of Federal Universities with regard to the university policy of teaching, research, extension and innovation; identify, from the institutional development plans, development proposals, taking into account the cultural, social, environmental and economic dimension. The methodology was qualitative, considering documentary analysis as data collection technique and content analysis to give data treatment. Institutional Development Plans of 27 Federal Universities were analyzed. The founding category of the analysis was: university challenges to the dimensions of development from the policies of teaching, research, extension and innovation. The data indicate that the university is strongly committed to the production and socialization of scientific and technological knowledge as primacy, so that the documents themselves insert in the policy of innovation, very forcefully, the relationship with new markets.