Cidadania e produ o universitária: o perfil dos dirigentes e a institucionaliza o de práticas democráticas

Based on research on institutional processes of conflicts administration and long experience on university routine, the article focus on the opposition between university teachers’ and university staff’s practical professional knowledge, considered as responsible for an undesirable hierarchy on their social positions at the University professional ranks. This hierarchy is also disputed by political groups which are competing for offices at university elections. It is proposed a reflection on these processes in order to make progress towards a more efficient and effective university administration both at the administrative and the academic levels. It is also discussed which criteria should be required to build profiles to be filled up by members of the university Board of Directors, in an effort towards democratization and univesrsalization of the institutional resources necessary to the proper development of the university commitments on teaching, research and extension.