Became coordinator of a University Extension Program

Engagement

As soon as my second year of college¹ started, I tried to remain engaged in extracurricular activities. I was invited by the same professor with whom I had worked in a previous university extension program to be the coordinator of a new extension program he had submitted to the university. I volunteered to lead the “Student - University - Society Integration Program” project, which aimed to advocate for education and strengthen the university’s mission by providing training to students and encouraging their interchange with teachers, staff, classmates, and the community.

The extension program

In this first stage of the project, we conducted focus group interviews with professors from different academic programs to identify what the main problems were in the social relations among employees, professors and students. We repeated these focus groups with students, also from various programs.

At the end of the semester, I presented the project and its current results at the university’s Extension Workshop.

¹ Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Minas Gerais (PUC Minas) is a private and non-profit Brazilian Catholic university. Recently, the Congregation for Catholic Education of the Vatican chose the Pontifical Catholic University of Minas Gerais, PUC Minas, as the largest in the world.