The present study appeared from the realization of recent changes at the Universidade Federal Fluminense scope from the adherence of the Programa de Apoio à Reestruturação e Expansão das Universidades Federais (REUNI) in 2007, which generated important developments in the democratization of the access to the University with the expansion of placements offered at enrolment, the increase of nightly courses and the implementation of branches in the rural areas of Rio de Janeiro s state. As a reflection of these expansion polities, we noted an extension on student demands for assistance resources, in cases like the training scholarship , current academic development , in a number far above the offered placements. Coincidental to this, we observed the expansion and restructuring in the Policy of Student Assistance developed by UFF with the resources increasing arising from the Programa Nacional de Assistência Estudantil (PNAES) implemented in 2008. This resulted in a larger service offer with the objective of supporting the student s permanency, especially of the ones from poorer social segments that started to join the University in a greater number. These changes also resulted in a reorganization of the University s bureaucratic structure in response to these new demands. As a result of this, we used documental analysis of primary and secondary sources produced in the UFF and other governmental agencies scope, such as the analysis of quantitative and qualitative data collected within the Pró-Reitoria de Assuntos Estudantis (PROAES/UFF) as ways of understanding UFF s Policy of Student Assistance, in this new expansion and restructuring University context. Simultaneously we seek even more comprehension about the perspectives of the student s participation in this process, seeking institutional support for the promotion of their permanency in the public University education. In the results, the study highlights the fact of actions promoted by UFF showing high consonance with what was defined in the PNAES rules in relation to actions to be offer by the IFES, such as lodgings and board, health care, and day care center, etc. In the same way, we saw that UFF s option by the establishment of university poles in rural areas of Rio de Janeiro state had an important impact on the distribution of assistance scholarship offers. The technical-bureaucratic apparatus also suffered intense makeover in the period 2007-2014 to meet the changes set out in the decrees of REUNI and PNAES. Therewith we see intensification of the attendance with student demand bureaucratization, which reflected in the requirements of the selection process for the assistance scholarship. Lastly, in the student perspectives analysis as to the institution resources solicitation we highlight speeches and representations that emphasize the scholarship access as part of a university project , a social right to education or even an aid in answer to the needs arising from their social condition, that extrapolate the immediate objectives of their permanency in the public University level education system.