Recent history of the University of Alcalá (Continued)

Abstract

These two years attended another story, as bizarre as described above, related to the recovery of Alcala de Henares University. To begin, we say that the elements which determined the search for new sites in Madrid university persisted for four years now and even had worsened, despite the entry into operation in 1971 of the new facilities at the Autonomous University. The student overcrowding had worsened and was the capital of Spain and 60,000 college students (half of those in Spain, but Madrid only had about 10 100 of the national population). Moreover, the authorities of the newly named "Complutense de Madrid", perhaps because of this, increasing their tendency to look at Alcala the "seal historic" they lacked, and in any case, the idea of Alcala had traveled some circles of opinion due to the great debate of the previous years.