The analysis of faculty work in higher education has been extensively mentioned in literature due to the specificities of its activities. The present work analyzes the changes higher education has been undergoing as a consequence of the Brazilian State Reform and the clear influences of such changes on professors' work. This work also focuses on analyzing the recommendations that have been made by regional, national, and international higher education conferences in the last few years aiming at establishing relationships of those recommendations with the role the university has assumed more recently and with the new demands on its faculty members.
faculty work; higher education; educational reforms