The Need for Jointed Actions in Culture and Extension

Abstract

The Culture and Extension Regiment regulates the activities of culture and extension at University of São Paulo. In this context, it might be known as a process that articulates teaching and research to enable the transforming action between the University and society. In this way, it enriches the educational process by encouraging the socialization of academic knowledge and establishing a dynamic which contributes to the community's participation in university life. Due to the importance of the culture and university extension works which were conducted by the University of São Paulo and the need to review the concept of university extension activities used till now by the University, changes were made in order to define the activities of culture and extension foreseen in the Statute and the General Regiment of the University of São Paulo. It is to enhance the cultural and extension activities in the evaluation of professors, students and university staff, even to encourage the establishment of criteria for the evaluation of university extension activities. To be able to achieve the desired purpose, it is necessary the inseparable articulation between teaching, research and extension activities and the culture produced in the academy, and the externalization of the results in favor of benefits to society.