Universidade Tuiuti do Paraná

About Universidade Tuiuti do Paraná

From a small preparatory course for admission exams to the former high school, to consolidation as one of the largest higher education institutions in Southern Brazil: this is the trajectory of Universidade Tuiuti do Paraná, an institution with 57 years dedicated to education. The embryo of UTP was the Tuiuti Course, founded in 1958, in Curitiba, by the Infantry officer, professor and educator, Sydnei Lima Santos. Always alongside his wife, Maria de Lourdes Rangel Santos, he dedicated a good part of his life to the training of generations of students and to the construction of Universidade Tuiuti do Paraná. For more than two decades Tuiuti was the only educational institution in Paraná to offer preschool, elementary and high school, and higher education. The first higher education unit, the Faculty of Philosophy, Sciences and Letters, in 1973, offered courses in Pedagogy, Psychology and Letters. In 1981, courses in Physiotherapy, Speech Therapy and Occupational Therapy were created. In 1990, courses in Data Processing, Dentistry followed, and the following year, the Law course. In 1993, Tuiuti consolidated into the Integrated Faculties of the Tuiuti Educational Society – FISET, expanding the offer of courses that met society's demands. On July 7, 1997, through a decree by the then President of the Republic Fernando Henrique Cardoso, Universidade Tuiuti do Paraná was created. Curitiba's first private university was born with 17 courses and one guideline: “To weave the soul of the University of the Third Millennium”. The transformation into a university allowed a leap in research development in line with teaching and extension. Master's programs in Communication and Languages, Education and Communication Disorders were created, which in 2006 also became Doctoral programs. The recognition of CAPES (Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel) – body...