The attempts of institutionalization and “university normalization” of the last dictatorship. University law, new statute and teaching competitions in the case of the University of Buenos Aires (1980-1983)

Abstract

The attempts of institutionalization and "university normalization" of the last dictatorship. University law, new statute and teaching contests in the case of the University of Buenos Aires (1980-1983). Once the last Argentine dictatorship considered defeated the so-called "subversion", the Ministry of Culture and National Education sought the institutionalization of the university system reformed by the intervention since March 1976. For this, in April 1980 a new university regulation was enacted (Law No. 22207). In this article we analyze the peculiarities of the so called "normalization" process in the University of Buenos Aires. We will approach our case study with theaim of contributing to the complexity of available knowledge about the history of the national university system, considering that it is a heterogeneous whole