The cut and the cut: What does UNICAMP's budget and political crisis have to say about social injustice?

Abstract

The purpose of this text is to contribute to the debate on budget cuts at the State University of Campinas proposed by the rectory in 2016. It is intended to reflect on such contingency in the light of the budget structure in general. First, it presents the current funding framework for the Public University, and particularly for Unicamp. Then, this framework is discussed in view of the more general tax structure and the resolution solutions presented for the budget deficit. We seek here to think about these budget cuts, relating them to the current economic situation, without losing sight of the structure of public university education funding. With this reflection, we intend to bring more subsidies to the debate without giving up the demands in favor of financing policies and a democratic teaching project and at the service of the public.