The creation projects of the National University of Entre Ríos during the 20th century: actors and politics in a game of advances and setbacks (1914-1973)

Abstract

In this article, we are interested in studying the numerous projects for the creation of a University for the Province of Entre Ríos that were presented between the rise of radicalism in 1914 and its realisation in 1973. We start from the hypothesis that the Universidad Nacional de Entre Ríos, far from being the result of a process of creating a university "by authoritarian means", was the result of the confluence of different fronts and actors in civil society and politics: local demands for socio-economic development that were not always homogeneous, the demands of secondary school students, the nation's university policy, and the resistance of the National University of the Litoral, which did not want to lose Entre Ríos as part of its sphere of influence. From our point of view, its characteristics were the result of the political and social situation at the time when the conditions of possibility were in place.