Faculdade Federal de Direito de Mato Grosso : semente fecunda da grande árvore universitária (UFMT - 1961-1976)

Abstract

In this research of a historical nature, we understand that the history of a school institution can be better analyzed through the understanding of its path, institutional and normative structures that govern it. The object of study is the Federal University of Mato Grosso – UFMT, instituted by Law nº. 5,647 of december 10, 1970, with headquarters and venue in the city of Cuiabá, but whose constitutive act, in fact, occurred on december 27, 1971. We assume that its constitution took place from the College of Law of Cuiabá, whose existence dates back to 1933 and which was federalized from 1961. The research objectives were: I) Investigate the historical trajectory of Federal University of Mato Grosso, campus Cuiabá, and how it was founded consolidated int the state of Mato Grosso, in period between 1961, when the College of Law was federalized until 1976 when the first class of the Law Course started in 1972, already at UFMT graduated; II) Analyze and record the fouding contexto of UFMT bringing reflections on some crucial events; III) Point out and record the historical path of law of Cuiabá, bringing reflections on importance of this higher education for the foundation and consolidation of UFMT. Sources of the analysis were constituted: institutional documents such as fouding minutes, management reports, internal bulletins, legislation and normative acts, in addition to sources such as the oficial press and iconography. The sources were collected in diferente archives, among them, the Public Archive of Mato Grosso, Internal Archive of Secretary of Communication and Multimedia – SECOMM/UFMT, Archive of the Rectory of UFMT, Memory Institute of Legislative Assembly of Mato Grosso. The contributions of Benefito Pedro Dorileo (2005), Rubens de Mendonça (1977), Humberto Marcílio (1963) allowed us to build a trajectory of the period that perceded and succeeded the constitution and implementation of UFMT. Carlo Ginzburg (1987), Michel Ceteau (1996), Peter Burke (1992), among others, detailed the research paths and led us to question documents and institutional collections in a thorough and insistente way to find a set of sources that provided the researcher to write as forgotten story. Responding to the questioning of the research on how UFMT was constituted and consolidated, it seems pertinente to point out that the College of Law in Cuiabá, after surviving numerous challenges, and after being federalized in 1961, enabled the Federal University of Mato Grosso – UFMT finally materialized as the only federal university in the vast state of Mato Grosso, a situation that would only change in 2018, with the publication of Law nº. 13,637, of march 20, 2018 that created the Federal University of Rondonópolis – UFR, by breaking up the campus of the Federal University of Mato Grosso.