UHRA – UNIVERSITY, HISTORY AND CURRENT CHALLENGES

Knowledge of the history of our universities is a determining factor in the construction of the modern university and society. Among our objectives we set ourselves a serious challenge: from a clear orientation towards the contemporary age, without abandoning previous stages, we propose to give answers to questions in which the university was and is directly involved: the incorporation of women to the classrooms and chairs; the new disciplines and their adaptation to the new scientific, economic and social realities of the different degrees through the curricula; the selection and promotion of the teaching staff; the participation of the university community in the main political and social debates as well as the new challenges of the university in today’s society.

We will also open the study to other cross-cutting themes that will allow us to delve deeper and learn about issues of strict university history from a political dimension -liberalism, fascism, political exile- or social -biographies, relationship between universities, attitude of the university community to the most current issues at any given time-. Among the expected results, together with scientific publications, meetings and seminars and transfer activities, we want to propose a basis for the good governance of universities derived from their history.