Proposal of a panel with synthetic information about universities: application of the “X-Ray” in the Federal University of Santa Catarina

Universities are peculiar organizations whose operational and budgetary information assume significant complexity. The objective of this article is to present the proposal of a panel with basic institutional information about Brazilian universities, with a synthetic and illustrated conception. With the identification of available information, those considered basic and relevant, were selected according to the space restriction for the synthetic approach of a panel. Then, it was proposed a panel entitled “X-Ray”, which application can be carried through for any Federal Institutions of Superior Education of the Brazilian Federal Government, taking in to consideration the common and minimum reports demanded.