"Se eu já cheguei até aqui, eu vou chegar até o final": perspectivas da permanência universitária

Abstract

This research aimed to investigate aspects that contribute to the permanence of students from popular classes on the campus of a public federal university. To this end, interviews were carried out with five students, who were assisted in an extension project that serves new students at the university, with the purpose of identifying and analyzing, based on the reported experiences, factors involved in the students' permanence, strategies used by them to remaining and possible interactions between the intention to drop out and to continue their courses. The reports pointed out that the intention to withdraw and remain can be intertwined, at any time, during the trajectory of students from lower classes in a university course and that institutional, personal and collective factors can be fundamental in promoting retention.