USP<\/strong>: 20 since 1952 Note<\/strong>: The above figures refer to titles awarded by the universities as a whole, not including those awarded by individual departments.<\/p>\n Sources<\/strong>: USP, UNICAMP, UNESP, UNIFESP, UFABC and UFSCar \u201cPotential recipients are usually nominated by someone from the department where they worked,\u201d explains Marilde Loiola de Menezes of the Institute of Political Science (IPOL) at the University of Bras\u00edlia (UnB), who represents her department on the university council. Among other duties, the council is responsible for formulating the institution\u2019s internal policies and analyzing and approving its annual research schedule. \u201cThe name of the honoree is only made public after approval by the university council, at which point the recipient is informed and a formal ceremony scheduled,\u201d says Menezes. Before a nominee can be approved, however, the secretary of the department that nominated them must gather all documents needed for the evaluation process. This includes a detailed overview of the nominee\u2019s academic career, analysis of their scientific r\u00e9sum\u00e9, copies of their published papers and books, and transcripts of any interviews given to newspapers, journals, or television programs. \u201cThe secretary has to do extensive research into the nominee\u2019s academic and scientific work and present a cohesive opinion on the retired professor,\u201d Menezes stresses.<\/p>\n After being approved by the department\u2019s own board, the dossier is submitted to the university council, at which point it is analyzed by another secretary, appointed by the dean. \u201cThis is the conclusive verification of all the information gathered in the process, which can be rejected by the secretary if there are any doubts or even inconsistencies in the data presented,\u201d she explains. Once this process has been completed, a recommendation to award the title is subject to a vote at an ordinary meeting of the university council. At UnB, a simple majority is enough for approval. \u201cIt is difficult for a nomination to be rejected at this stage because it has already gone through several phases of assessment to confirm its merit,\u201d Menezes points out. After approval from the council, a formal ceremony is scheduled and invites extended to members of the academic community, such as the university’s dean, the secretaries and other faculty members who supported the nomination, and of course, the professor receiving the title. \u201cOur statute also allows for the title to be awarded posthumously to professors who died before they were nominated or during the process. In these cases, the honor is given to family members of the recipient,\u201d she adds.<\/p>\n At the S\u00e3o Paulo State University (UNESP), in addition to the nine distinctions that have been granted by the university itself since 1996, the institution\u2019s 34 departments also award emeritus titles autonomously. At UNESP, the title is granted to retired professors whose teaching services are considered of exceptional relevance. \u201cThe title is the greatest academic recognition that a university can bestow on its professors,\u201d says Erivaldo Ant\u00f4nio da Silva, secretary general at the university.<\/p>\n Emeritus procedures initiated and implemented by UNESP departments are analyzed by internal panels\u2014requiring two-thirds of the vote for approval\u2014and aim to recognize the careers of professors who have distinguished themselves in the region or area where the department is located. For professors whose performance extends beyond their region, whose work is recognized nationally or internationally, the process is conducted by panels from different areas of the university. The university council is responsible for final approval. \u201cThe ceremony for awarding the title is very formal. Speeches are usually made by the dean, the nominators, and the recipient themselves, who at UNESP wears formal academic dress, composed of a gown and cap,\u201d explains Silva.<\/p>\n The approach is similar at the University of S\u00e3o Paulo (USP), where honors can be awarded both by the university council, which represents the institution in its entirety, and by separate panels in each department. This was the case with historian and literary critic Alfredo Bosi (1936\u20132021), who spent more than four decades teaching Brazilian literature in the Department of Classical and Vernacular Literature at USP\u2019s School of Philosophy, Languages and Literature, and Human Sciences (FFLCH), which awarded him the title of professor emeritus in 2009. Sociologist and literary critic Antonio Candido de Mello e Souza (1918\u20132017), who received the title posthumuously in 2021, is one of the 20 names honored by the university as a whole. This list also includes former FAPESP staff, such as physician Alberto Carvalho da Silva (1917\u20132002), who was scientific director and president of the executive board, legal expert Celso Lafer and physicist Jos\u00e9 Goldemberg, both former presidents of the foundation, and biochemist Walter Colli, who was assistant coordinator of the scientific board.<\/p>\n At the University of Campinas (UNICAMP) the first professor emeritus title was awarded to Gabriel Oliveira da Silva Porto (1902\u20131976), from the School of Medical Sciences (FCM), in 1975. The 60 professor emeritus titles granted by the institution include physicist Cesar Lattes (1924\u20132005), who received the honor in 1986, linguist and former FAPESP president Carlos Vogt, and physicist Carlos Henrique de Brito Cruz, the foundation’s former scientific director. In November last year, UNICAMP\u2019s university council unanimously voted to award the title to Carlos Alfredo Joly of its Biology Institute, who cofounded FAPESP\u2019s Research Program on Biodiversity Characterization, Conservation, Restoration, and Sustainable Use (BIOTA). \u201cThe names of all recipients, as well as the minutes of the meetings, are publicly available on the website of the university’s secretary general,\u201d says \u00c2ngela de Noronha Bignami, secretary general at UNICAMP.<\/p>\n
\nUNICAMP<\/strong>: 60 since 1975
\nUNESP<\/strong>: 9 since 1996
\nUNIFESP<\/strong>: 1 since 1994
\nUFABC<\/strong>: 3 since 2014
\nUFSCar<\/strong>: 9 since 2005<\/p>\n
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