Overview
- Students remain inside the University of São Paulo’s central hall, which they occupied Thursday, after the university cut water and power on Friday and stationed Military Police, including BAEP officers, near the site.
- The group demands a steep increase to PAPFE, a grant for low‑income students, to R$1,804 and fixes to student housing and dining after reports of mold in dorms and larvae and other contaminants in meals.
- USP leadership says it ended talks on Monday after roughly 20 hours of meetings and offered to raise the top grant from R$885 to R$912 and the partial grant from R$335 to R$340, while denouncing property damage and publishing notes from units that criticized the takeover.
- Rector Aluísio Segurado said he may seek a court order to retake the building but plans to wait for student assemblies expected next week before moving ahead.
- The dispute has become a test of spending priorities across São Paulo’s state universities, with students citing USP’s roughly R$9 billion budget and a recent R$240 million faculty bonus to argue that larger aid increases are viable.