This dissertation seeks to analyze and understand the extent to which the extension policy
practiced by the Federal University of Tocantins (UFT), having as a cut-off for the research the
Institutional Extension Grant Program (PIBEX), has fostered the university's interaction with
other sectors of the society, through the analysis of the extension projects approved by said
program, as well as to understand how the perception of these extensionist practices by the
scholarship students who are involved in this process. To do so, initially, a survey was made of
the institutional documents related to UFT's extension policy in order to confront them with the
main guidelines and norms of university extension in Brazil. It should be emphasized that the
national policy of extension and, consequently, that of the institution under study, is in
permanent process of discussion, resignification and implementation due to its unfinished
character and still under construction. With a qualitative and quantitative approach, the
exploratory and descriptive research also included bibliographical and documentary research
and the application of questionnaires to fellow scholars participating in the Academic PIBEX
in 2016 in order to understand the perception of these subjects about the extensionist policy of
UFT. In this sense, to support the study, we used as theoretical reference: (I) authors already
consecrated in the studies about the university extension in the country, such as Fagundes
(1986), Gurgel (1986), Botomé (1996), Souza 2000), Melo Neto (2001), Nogueira (2005) and
Cunha (2007); (II) the debates and documents proposed by the Forum of Pro-Rectors of
Extension of the Public Institutions of Higher Education in Brazil (FORPROEX); and, finally,
(III) the extension regulations developed within the UFT. With regard to the extension policies
of the university under study, it was verified that the norms, guidelines and conceptions about
extension are in line with the main national guidelines developed by FORPROEX; as far as the
perception of the students is concerned, it was found through the questionnaires that their
perceptions are largely matured and understood, but with regard to the aspects related to the
dissemination of university extension in UFT, it was observed the need for greater publicity
among the students in order to further strengthen the extensionist practices in UFT.
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