Recent history of the University of Alcalá

Abstract

Although it may seem strange to any ordered thinking, we must start by saying that the opening of the current University of Alcalá was not for those instances that have the capacity to decide on a project to recover the old University. Moreover, it is also difficult to determine when a decision was clear and definite to reopen a university in Alcalá de Henares by the Spanish educational authorities. As outlined below, the rebirth of the University of Alcalá in the twentieth century is more than a fact capable of dating, a process of confluence of circumstances that are produced and weaving since 1965.

In the story that follows is not easy to find an agent re-founder. Only a few groups of Alcalá and in some cases, the municipal institution, were clear that Alcala de Henares should take every opportunity that presented itself to regain its university status.