A municipalização do ensino superior no Brasil: um estudo de multicasos na dimensão estrutural e de gestão de pessoas

The municipalization of higher education is a reality in Brazil, but it is a poorly structured mechanism, dependent on the collection capacity to obtain greater administrative and financial autonomy for the municipality. The objective of the article is to understand the structural and people management dimension of municipal and free public higher education institutions in Brazil. To achieve the objective, bibliographic and documentary research methods were used, with a qualitative approach and through explanatory and descriptive data analysis. Thus, the study sought to answer how the legal and functional structures of four IMES (Municipal Institution of Higher Education), USJ, FMP, FAIBI and FACELI, are classified as public and free. The results of the study made it possible to identify, among other aspects, that the FMP is an autarchy maintained by the city while the other IMES are maintained by educational foundations; the USJ is configured as a university center represented by the dean and the others are classified as Faculties portrayed by its directors; FAIBI is the only one that does not have a quota system for students to enter the institution; FACELI and FMP have the job and career plan in place, however FACELI has actions closer to strategic management of people by competence, with the Positions, Career and Compensation Plan in place for both faculty and administrative technicians, as well as the performance evaluation system focused on competencies.