The University of Puerto Rico is the main public university system in the U.S. Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. It is a government-owned corporation with 11 campuses and approximately 58,000 students and 5,300 faculty members. UPR has the largest and most diverse academic offerings in the commonwealth,with 472 academic programs of which 32 lead to a doctorate.
The University of Puerto Rico,Mayagüez Campus (UPRM) or Recinto Universitario de Mayagüez (RUM) in Spanish,is a public land-grant university in Mayagüez,Puerto Rico. UPRM is the second-largest university campus of the University of Puerto Rico system. In addition to its status as a land-grant university,it is also a member of the sea-grant and space-grant research consortia. In 2009,the campus population was composed of 12,108 students,1,924 regular staff members,and 1,037 members of the education staff. In 2013,the student population remained relatively steady at 11,838,but the instructional faculty dropped to 684. In the second semester of 2019 around 12,166 students where enrolled. UPRM has been accredited by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education (MSCHE) since 1946.
Central Connecticut State University is a public university in New Britain,Connecticut,United States. Founded in 1849 as the State Normal School,CCSU is Connecticut's oldest publicly funded university. It is made up of four schools:the Ammon College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences;the School of Business;the School of Education and Professional Studies;and the School of Engineering,Science,and Technology. As of Spring 2022,the university is attended by 8,898 students:7,054 of whom are undergraduates,and 1,844 of whom are graduate students. More than half of students live off campus and 96 percent are Connecticut residents. The school is part of the Connecticut State Colleges &Universities system (CSCU),which also oversees Eastern,Western,and Southern Connecticut State Universities. Together they have a student body of 25,774 as of Spring 2022.
The University of Puerto Rico,Río Piedras Campus is a public land-grant research university in San Juan,Puerto Rico. It is the largest campus in the University of Puerto Rico system in terms of student population and it was Puerto Rico's first public university campus.
The University of Puerto Rico at Arecibo is a public college in Arecibo,Puerto Rico. It is part of the University of Puerto Rico. UPR-Arecibo was previously the Colegio Regional de Arecibo and Colegio Universitario Tecnológico de Arecibo.
Tarleton State University is a public university with its main campus in Stephenville,Texas. It is a founding member of the Texas A&M University System and enrolled over 14,000 students in the fall of 2020.
Colegio San Ignacio de Loyola is a private,Catholic,Jesuit,all-male college-preparatory school run by the U.S. Central and Southern Province of the Society of Jesus in San Juan,Puerto Rico. It was founded by the Jesuits in 1952. It has educated some of the most influential figures in Puerto Rico such as Fernando Picó,Ruben Berrios and Raúl Juliá.
Jaime Benítez Rexach was a Puerto Rican author,academic and politician. He was the longest serving chancellor and the first president of the University of Puerto Rico.
Cambridge College is a private college based in Boston,Massachusetts. It also operates regional centers in Lawrence,Massachusetts,Springfield,Massachusetts,Guaynabo,Puerto Rico,and Rancho Cucamonga,California.
Kristina M. Johnson is an American business executive,engineer,academic,and former government official who served as the 13th chancellor of the State University of New York from September 2017 until June 2020. In June 2020,the Ohio State University Board of Trustees named her as the university's 16th president,succeeding the retiring Michael V. Drake. She has been a leader in the development of optoelectronic processing systems,3-D imaging,and color-management systems.
Rafael Luis Bras is a Puerto Rican civil engineer best known for his contributions in soil-vegetation-atmosphere system modeling. He served as the provost and executive vice president of Academic Affairs at the Georgia Institute of Technology from 2010 to 2020 while maintaining faculty appointments in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences. He is currently a professor of water engineering at the Georgia Tech School of Civil and Environmental Engineering.
Domenico Grasso is an American engineer,professor and the sixth chancellor of the University of Michigan–Dearborn. He has previously served as provost of the University of Delaware,vice president for research and dean of two different colleges at the University of Vermont. Grasso is Smith College's Picker Engineering Program's founding director.
Central Connecticut State University's annual undergraduate commencement exercises are held each May at the XL Center in Hartford. At present,this is the only occasion upon which bachelor's degrees are conferred by the university. Since 1989,a separate graduation ceremony has been held for recipients of postgraduate degrees. Additional midyear undergraduate commencements were held at the end of the fall terms from 1988 to 1993, and at several other points in the university's history.
The Board of Regents for Higher Education (BOR) is a government body in the U.S. state of Connecticut that oversees the Connecticut State Colleges &Universities (CSCU). CSCU and the BOR were created on July 1,2011,consolidating the governance of the state's twelve community colleges,four state universities,and Charter Oak State College. The BOR assumed the powers and responsibilities of the respective former Boards of Trustees and the Board for State Academic Awards;it also retains many responsibilities for setting statewide policy of the former Board of Governors for Higher Education.
Harold L. Martin Sr. Ph.D. is an American engineer,educator,former chancellor of Winston-Salem State and current chancellor of North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University. He is the first alumnus in the history of North Carolina A&T to hold the position of Chancellor. Under his leadership,N.C. A&T has become the nation's largest historically black university (HBCU),its top-ranked public HBCU and North Carolina's third most productive public research university. It has also increased its standing as a land-grant institution and doctoral research university.
Minerva Cordero Braña is a Puerto Rican mathematician and a professor of mathematics at the University of Texas at Arlington. She is also the university's Senior Associate Dean for the College of Science,where she is responsible for the advancement of the research mission of the college. President Biden awarded her the Presidential Award for Excellence in Science,Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring (PAESMEM) on February 8,2022.
Jorge Haddock Acevedo is a Puerto Rican engineer and academic administrator serving as the president of the University of Puerto Rico (UPR). On July 7,2021,the Governing Board of the UPR unanimously requested his resignation and his term ended on July 31,2021.
Damián J. Fernández is an American academic administrator and political scientist serving as the fifth president of Eckerd College. Fernández assumed office on July 1,2020,succeeding Donald R. Eastman III.
Enrique Jose Lavernia is a Cuban-American material scientist and engineer. He is currently Distinguished Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of California,Irvine's Henry Samueli School of Engineering. From 2015 to 2021,he served as UC Irvine's provost and executive vice chancellor. Lavernia previously taught at the University of California,Davis,where he served as Dean of the College of Engineering and as the university's interim provost and executive vice chancellor.
