Education paper by Maior, Enikő
New Challenges in a New Era: The History of the Partium Christian University
Type of Abstract (select):Abstract (max. 250 words):
In my paper I want to present the history of the Partium Christian University from Nagyvárad, Romania. The university was set up after the events of 1989 in order to help the ethnic Hungarians to study in their native tongue. It was the first Hungarian university after more than forty years of Communism. The beginnings were characterized by many hardships but the founders believed in their dream to have a university where the language of instruction would be only Hungarian and that would give the possibility to the Hungarians from Transylvania to study on their native tongue. I will offer a detailed study of the university. I will present the different specializations from the beginnings till nowadays.
Brief Professional Bio (max. 100 words):
Enikő Maior, PhD. teaches at Partium Christian University in Oradea, Romania. She is the author of several scholarly publications on Jewish American literary themes. In the first half of 2013 she was a SCIEX fellow working at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland under the guidance of Professor Thomas Austenfeld. She was awarded a Fulbright scholarship and would work at the Central Connecticut State University for the first half of 2018. She likes to balance teaching, administration and research in her life.enikomaior@yahoo.com