On strike for five weeks, USP students protest against failure

On strike for five weeks, students from the University of São Paulo (USP) invaded a university administration building, this Thursday (26), in protest against the possible disapproval of the strikers.

According to USP, from the sixth week out of class, students will no longer be able to make up for absences.

When talking to Folha de São Paulo, the director of the university’s Central Student Directory (DCE), Davi Barbosa, said that the invasion was an isolated action, but considered “the method of occupation” as an action “legitimate and used historically ” by students.

In a statement, the DCE accused the university of political persecution against the strikers. USP informed that the academic calendar will not be changed.

Students demand the return of the automatic trigger; hiring 1,683 teachers, based on the 2014 student-teacher ratio; end of the merit and competition notice; that no course closes; that quotas for black and brown people and also indigenous people be instituted in competitions and; the hiring of administrative technicians.

The dean of USP, Carlos Gilberto Cartolli, informed the press that, between 2014 and 2022, the institution lost 879 professors. Even after the dean announced the hiring of new teachers, the students decided to continue the strike.

According to the rectory, only students and employees of the Faculty of Philosophy, Letters and Human Sciences (FFLCH) and the School of Arts, Sciences and Humanities are continuing the strike.