Faculdade Zumbi dos Palmares

About Faculdade Zumbi dos Palmares

According to Wikipedia, Faculdade Zumbi dos Palmares, also known as Unipalmares or FAZP, is a private educational institution in the Ponte Pequena neighborhood in São Paulo. Founded in 2004 and named after Zumbi , it is the only institution of higher education in Brazil to focus primarily on attracting Afro-Brazilians and teach an Afro-Brazilian-focused curriculum. One of the objectives of the faculty would be to reduce the inequality between blacks and whites in higher education, since in Brazil, only 13.3% of students in higher education are black, according to data from the 2012 Census of Higher Education. In 2012 accounted for 1,600 enrolled students and 1,400 graduates.