Contents of the book "The University: where to?" by Dimka Guitcheva-Gotcheva

A few words in advance

Part one: The Idea of University and the Embodiment of its Forms in our Country

I. What is a "University"?
The University as communitas - a community.
Universitas magistrorum et scholarium.
Universitas sui iuris facta. The University as an autonomous institution with a legislation of its own.
 Libertas philosophandi et docendi. The academic freedom of research and teaching as an aim of university. Some episodes in the history of Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridsky": 

a) The crisis in 1907 - a conflict with the monarch; 
b) The crisis in 1922 - a conflict with the most radical anti-monarchists; 
c) The financial restrictions in the 30-s and the 50-th Anniversary of the SU.
Epilogue: The violence against the University and the crushing of its autonomy in the 40-s.


The University as an educational center conferring degrees.
5. Universitas litterarum. The University as a universe of knowledge. 

II. How many universities should we have in Bulgaria? (Reflections on the march against the private universities in Bulgaria in the period 1999-2001)

III. How  is the autonomy of University possible?
1. The prose of the material.
2. With what kind of a Law are we going to have autonomy?
3. How does the University govern itself?
4. What does the autonomous university owe to society? 

Part two: Teaching at the university and educational legislation

I. On the principles of   higher humanitarian education and its governance.

II. The project for a new Scientific and Doctoral degrees Law - pro and contra.

Part three: What happens to the credit system?

Ten questions on the credit system.

A  draft proposal for  implementing the credit system in Sofia University.

A draft proposal for  implementing the credit system for speciality Philosophy.

An appeal of the Assistants' collegium for  implementing the credit system in Sofia University.

The International rectors' meeting in Sofia (and what it clarified).
 
Supplement: The Bologna Declaration

Part four: Sincerely speaking…

The university: My understanding why (A letter to the colleagues from the students' philological seminar "Small nasal" and from the students' philosophical circle "Projectoria")
1. The University is history.
2. The University reproduces a tradition and produces bureaucrats. 
3. The University is in danger.
4. The University speaks to itself.
5. The University - an European one.
6. The moral irresponsibility meets the apathy of the students.
7. The University has an excuse.
8. The University is the student's Diploma.
9. The University as chaos and annoyance.
10. The University has not reached maturity. 

Why do we need an Academic campus? Why do we need young academics? 

Instead of a conclusion: The university for me 

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