Introduction

The Higher Education Study Center (Cees) is an interdisciplinary research center accountable to the School of Humanities of the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS). It officially opened its doors in 2009, but its researchers have been working together since the end of the 1900s. The goals of Cees are develop and disseminate the findings of Higher Education research at the institutional, national and international levels.