Reforming the Postcommunist University

Issue Date April 1997
Volume 8
Issue 2
Page Numbers 159-67
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About the Author

Andrei Marga is dean of the Faculty of European Studies and rector at the “Babes-Bolyai” University of Cluj, Romania, where he has taught philosophy since 1971. In 1991 he was a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. In 1996, he was a visiting fellow at the International Forum for Democratic Studies in Washington, D.C.

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