**Development of Public Policies for the Retention of Affirmative Action Entrants: Management of Strategies for Dissemination of Results and Coordination with the Public Administration of the State of São Paulo**

• Grant number: 24/09342-6
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Journalism
• Start date: December 01, 2024
• End date: November 30, 2025
• Field of knowledge: Applied Social Sciences - Communications - Journalism and Publishing
• Principal Investigator: Sueyla Ferreira da Silva dos Santos
• Grantee: Luiz Henrique Gonçalves Santos
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia (FCT). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Presidente Prudente. Presidente Prudente , SP, Brazil
• Institution abroad: Faculdade De Ciências E Tecnologia De Presidente Prudente, Brazil
• Associated research grant: 23/10240-0 - Public Policies and Affirmative Actions at Public Universities: defining an algorithm to predict drop outs of entrance students with racial quotes, AP.PP

Abstract

The research project aims to assist public management in improving affirmative action policies through reserved vacancies and racial quotas, using dropout rates and academic performance of the target group of the study as parameters. The project will be divided into four interrelated phases: data preparation and construction of a predictive model (phase 1), coordination of a public discussion agenda and creation of an alert mechanism to predict dropout risk (phase 2), drafting of a support proposal for the Affirmative Action Policy (phase 3), and dissemination of knowledge (phase 4). The Scientific Journalism (SJ) fellow will be responsible for defining topics, developing scripts, recording, editing, and publishing videos and written articles about the activities carried out in phases 3 and 4. These practices aim to ensure the translation of the predictive alert model for dropout risk among higher education entrants through reserved vacancies and quotas, developed in phase 1, into a language that supports public management in making decisions to improve public policies and affirmative actions aimed at democratizing higher education.**