The university in Brazil has its origin linked to the elitist interests, where the first
higher courses were directed only to the dominant class of the country, but most of
these students were to carry out their formation in the great European universities, in
front of this, only in Century XX, that the first university is established on national soil,
and under the circumstances of the need to grant the title of doctor honoris causa to
the King of Belgium. The expansion interests of higher education have been in the
background for almost the entire history of Brazil, and with high selectivity, access
was restricted to a few, and in this context, the Student Assistance policy did not
have a specific plan of action, but with the expansion of Higher Education from the
first years of the twenty-first century, became fundamental for the permanence of the
new public that began to attend university. This point, what we propose to analyze in
the present work the Student Assistance Programs of the Federal Institutions of
Higher Education of Palmas, UFT and IFTO, with the purpose of verifying the
differences and levels of effectiveness of the policy against the reality of the
undergraduate students of the two institutions. For this purpose, this research was
based on bibliographic, documentary and field research methodology, in which the
questionnaire was applied to the beneficiaries of the programs that form the said
policy of each institution.
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