IMPACTUL CRIZEI ANILOR 1980 ASUPRA UNIVERSITĂȚII DIN BUCUREŞTI – O ÎNCERCARE DE ANALIZĂ CANTITATIVĂ –
THE IMPACT OF THE 1980s CRISIS ON THE UNIVERSITY OF BUCHAREST – AN ATTEMPT AT QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS –

Summary/Abstract: In the 1980s, the hope for normalization, in the sense of liberalization and international opening in the Romanian higher education, was totally shattered. In the following text I will attempt to analyze, mainly through the prism of primarily quantitative indicators, how the general crisis of the communist system in the 1980s Romania influenced the higher education. I will use for this purpose the specific case of University of Bucharest. Thus, this paper aims to demonstrate that in 1980s, against a background of scarce resources allocated to Romanian education, University of Bucharest has fully felt the decrease of investment funds for teaching materials, household expenditures, inventory items and current repairs and maintenance works. More special challenges that decision makers in the University were striving to solve, in the late 1980s, consisted in exceeding the electricity quotas planned for student dormitories, the need for funds to replace the linen, dishes and other materials essential for the functioning of canteens and dormitories, which in 1988 were long overworn due to intense use, the sustained efforts that the University leadership had to ensure the current supply of student canteens. The review of enrollment figures of the University of Bucharest in the last decade of the communist regime also enables us to see the deep crisis crossed by the institution, together with the whole higher education system in Romania. As I will attempt to present below, 1980s marked a sharp quantitative decline in the dynamic of the teaching staff of University of Bucharest.

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