Extensão universitária e sua eficácia: estudo de caso do UnB Idiomas

The evaluation of the actions of extension in the scope of universities is an important tool to verify the validity of its processes and results in relation to the objectives of the policies established. Moreover, evaluation can be a fundamental tool to reach better results and to provide better use and control of the resources applied to the programs and projects of extension, as well as to provide the managers important data to draw policies that are more consistent. This research focus on the evaluation of the efficacy of university’s extension in light of the rules practiced in the federal universities in Brazil, using as object of this research UnB Idiomas, an extension program of the University of Brasilia. In order to get the necessary information to the research, documents were analised and data was collected through the Integrated Management System of UnB Idiomas. From the analysis of the data, the efficacy of the program was certified as it cooperates through the development of knowledge and solutions proposed to attend the necessities and expectations of the society, as it is advocated in the extension policies at UnB as well as the extension policies in the universities of Brazil. Yet, some challenges to the program were identified such as the necessity to increase the partnerships in order to improve the articulation of extension activities with graduation and post-graduation programs , and the investment in the evaluation process as a whole, which will offer a relevant contribution to the construction of the extension evaluation policy at UnB.