The Self-Assessment Committee of the Graduate Program in Letters, established in accordance with the rules stipulated by Capes, appointed by the Coordination of Graduate Programs in Letters of UFGD, is composed of:

• Edilaine Buin (Vice-Coordinator PPGL – President)
• Adair Vieira Gonçalves (representative of the professors)
• Gislaine Damaceno do Nascimento Orlando (representative appointed by PROPP)
• Gabriela Santos de Carvalho (representative of the students)
• Alexandra Aparecida de Araújo Figueiredo (representative of the former students)
• Cléber José de Oliveira (representative of the former students)
• Clarice de Mattos Goulart (representative of the Post-Doctorate scholarship holders)
• Adriana de Almeida Cristaldo (representative of the technical-administrative staff)
• Doralina Garcia Jara (representative of the external community)

The Committee meets periodically to assess the measures adopted by the Program to fulfill its mission, goals and objectives, and holds an Annual Open Meeting to discuss the results of the instruments proposed for evaluation and deliver them to the Program Coordination and the entire community.

Committee Meetings in 2023:

Meeting of September 5, 2023: At this meeting, the committee was formed and the program’s self-evaluation process was discussed, with the presentation of the actions already carried out and the definition of the methodology to be used1…. It was decided to invite two external professors and prepare questionnaires for graduates and master’s students.

Meeting of September 29, 2023: The committee met to deliberate on the names of the external evaluators and the questions to be included in the questionnaires for graduates and master’s students. Professors Elizabete Aparecida Marques and Frederico Leite were chosen as external evaluators and the questions for the questionnaires were defined

Meeting on November 14, 2023: At this meeting, the information provided by the PPGL coordinator about the meeting with CAPES was discussed, emphasizing the need for quality in self-assessment instruments and visibility of the results. It was decided to create a page on the PPGL website to publicize the self-assessment activities and the committee members were divided into tasks for creating this page and preparing the questionnaires.

The first self-assessment seminar took place on November 17, 2023

The self-assessment seminar of the Graduate Program in Letters (PPGL) held on November 17, 2023 was the first in a series of events planned to evaluate the program and outline an improvement plan. The seminar was held at the School of Communication, Arts and Letters (FALE).

Participants:

• In addition to the members of the self-evaluation committee, the seminar was attended by
  other PPGL professors.
• The invited external evaluators were Frederico Leite (from UEL, evaluator of the Literature area) and Elizabete Aparecida Marques (from UFMS, evaluator of the Linguistics area).

The seminar was an important space to gather different perspectives on the program and begin the construction of an effective action plan. The external evaluators brought valuable contributions to the self-evaluation process. There was also an effort to record the discussions and directions in minutes.