UFBA Affirmative Action Policy: the experience of the Administrative Secretariat of the Permanent Commission for Heteroidentification complementary to self-declaration as a black person/CPHA

Abstract

The Federal University of Bahia (UFBA) was the third federal university in the country to implement a quota system, in May 2004. Regarding the vacancies with a racial background, from 2005 to 2018, UFBA only required the completion of the race/color self-declaration, document that was filled in at the time of enrollment. From 2019, seven years after the implementation of the Quota Law, self-declaration began to be measured using complementary heteroidentification procedures. In this experience report, we will discuss the practice of the authors' work in the Administrative Secretariat of the Permanent Commission on Heteroidentification, complementing the self-declaration as a black person (black or brown) at UFBA (CPHA), prioritizing a technical presentation of the structuring and the role played by them in the CPHA, from the first procedure, for admission via SiSU, carried out in February 2019, its structuring and consolidation, in 2020, and the need to adapt the procedures to the teleface context due to the pandemic of the new coronavirus (SARS- CoV-2)/COVID-19.