 |
|
‘Avram Iancu’ University was founded in 1992. It figures among Avram Iancu’s testamentary ideals. He read law and philosophy in Cluj and resorted to the knowledge thus obtained in order to protect by means of ‘the weapons of logics’ the rights of the Romanians persecuted by history in the middle of the 19th century. Our university is deeply rooted both in the Romanian values from Transylvania and in the European values. It represents an institution for high education of a generally liberal tendency. Not politically speaking, but as an orientation towards all the social strata, cultural groupings, age, genre, etc.
|
The university has an endowment of European standards and is provided with highly efficient information technology. It has a professionally well educated teaching staff, with considerable scientific and publishing achievements, a considerable part of it of a young age, in friendly terms with the students. An important part of our teaching staff has Ph.D. degrees, or attend courses in order to to get their MA or Ph.D. degrees.
The endowment of the university consists of four buildings. One of them includes the Rector’s Office and a flat for the use of visiting professors, while another one is for our administration department. The main building is located at no. 6-8, Fabricii-de-Zahar Street. It is a four-storey building, with 21 classrooms. It is designed as to meet the needs of all our departments, i.e.: Anthropology, Social Welfare, Management, Public Administration, Physical Therapy, Physical Training and Sports. The university has a large computer and Internet lab, as well as three other socio-human four-storey research labs, located at no. 1A, Ilie Macelaru Street. In the same building there is also a library having thousands of books, magazines and papers, computers and Internet connections, a large reading room, plus some additional rooms for auxiliary activities.
‘Avram Iancu’ University is an institution for high education with no political affiliation, set up in compliance with the law for high education in Romania. All the specializations are authorized and re-confirmed, it being conceived as a university according to the classical meaning of the term, i.e. it consists of some departments that intend to include and cover a wide range of the sciences and culture. ‘Avram Iancu’ University is a private and non-profit high education institution, set up by the ‘Avram Iancu’ Academic Association, which has got and still gets the financing necessary for its current activities exclusively out of the fees paid by the students.
The Chairman of the ‘Avram Iancu’ Academic Association, founding member and Rector in office, profoundly dedicated to the ‘Avram Iancu’ University almost during the whole period in this capacity, since its foundation to the present time, is Prof. dr. Achim Mihu. A well known scientific and cultural personality, a fact properly illustrated by the reference book Enciclopedia marilor personalităţi din istoria culturii româneşti de-a lungul timpului şi de pretutindeni (vol. 4, Ed. Geneze, 2003), where he has a significant presentation, by the book Clujeni… , as well as by Dicţionarul … from 2006. You can also find plenty of data on him by accessing Google or Yahoo. He has asserted himself in various scientific and cultural fields: sociology, cultural anthropology, philosophy and literature. He began the Grammar School in Sibiu and graduated from it in Cluj. He graduated from the Faculty of General Economics in Bucharest (1954). He was assigned as assistant professor in Bucharest and later on as assistant professor, reader, lecturer and full professor at ‘Babes-Bolyai’ University in Cluj-Napoca. He got his doctorate degree in sociology at the University of Bucharest, in 1970. He got a grant at the Cornell University, New York, USA. From 1974 till 1975 he taught at ‘Nicolae Iorga’ Romanian Culture and Civilization Department of the Columbia University, New York. During the 1978-1979 period, he taught candidates for a doctorate degree and students of the Minnesota University, Minneapolis, USA. He is a member of the American Association of Sociology. Dr. Mihu has been several times nominated as Man of the Year and is a member of the Academy of Sciences in New York. He is coordinator for many candidates to a doctorate degree and has been awarded many diplomas by important national and international institutions. Dr. Mihu has a vast scientific and journalistic activity, as it is illustrated by the list of his scientific and journalistic works attached to this site.
|
|
 |
