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The University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus (UPRRP) —or Universidad de Puerto Rico, Recinto de Río Piedras in Spanish— is a state university located in the city of San Juan, Puerto Rico. UPRRP is the largest campus of the University of Puerto Rico System, and the first public university in the history of Puerto Rico. ISO 4217 Code USD User(s) the United States, the British Indian Ocean Territory,[1] the British Virgin Islands, East Timor, Ecuador, El Salvador, the Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Palau, Panama, Caicos Islands, and the insular areas of the United States Inflation 2. ... Crowded Shibuya, Tokyo shopping district An urban area is an area with an increased density of human-created structures in comparison to the areas surrounding it. ... Bantam may mean: American Bantam, a series of compact cars produced between 1937 and 1941 Bantam (chicken), a small (or miniaturized) domestic fowl Bantam (military), British Army jargon (First World War) for men below the minimum height for enlistment X-4 Bantam, a US test aircraft Bantam (city), a city... Rooster crowing during daylight A Rhode Island Red. ... quagmire:For alternate meanings see state university (disambiguation). ... Nickname: Location of San Juan within the island of Puerto Rico Coordinates: Country United States Territory Puerto Rico Founded 1508/1521 Area  - City 76. ... The Universitätscampus Wien, Austria ( details) Campus (plural: campuses) is derived from the (identical) Latin word for field or open space. English gets the words camp and campus from this origin. ... The University of Puerto Rico (UPR) is the university system of Puerto Rico. ... Puerto Rico The history of Puerto Rico began with the settlement of the archipelago of Puerto Rico by the Ortoiroid people between 3000 and 2000 BC. Other tribes, such as the Saladoid and Arawak Indians, populated the island between 430 BC and AD 1000. ...

History

The University of Puerto Rico at Río Piedras campus, and its distinctive clock tower.

In the year 1900 the Escuela Normal Industrial (Normal Industrial School) was established in Fajardo, Puerto Rico as the first Higher Education institution of Puerto Rico, dedicated to those who would become teachers on the island. At the time it only had 20 students and 5 professors. Image File history File links Metadata No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links Metadata No higher resolution available. ... Nickname: Los Cariduros, La Metrópolis del Sol Naciente Gentilic: Fajardeños Location Location of Fajardo, Puerto Rico within Puerto Rico Government Founded 1772 Mayor Hon. ...

A year later, in 1901, it was moved to the town of Río Piedras, because the roads to Fajardo were in a terrible condition. In the mild and studying-favourable nature around what was known by the time as "La Convalecencia" - the summer residence of the Spanish Governours of Puerto Rico- was placed, temporally, the Normal School. Its objectives were still the formation of new teachers for the island.

On March 12, 1903, under the administration of the Public Instruction Commissioner, Samuel McCune Lindsay, the 2nd Legislative Assembly approved a law creating the University of Puerto Rico in Río Piedras, trespassing there all the funding of the Insular Normal School. This School became the first Department of the University, origin of the now Faculty of Education and nucleus of the University of Puerto Rico.

Now legally established, the University of Puerto Rico, started its first academic year (1903-1904) with a roll of 173 students. Due to the scarcity of teachers in the island, most of these students received designations of the Department of Public Instruction to teach on schools without ending four years of college. This explains why the first graduation on June 1907, only had 13 graduate students.

In 1907 the first class of the normal course of four years graduated after being legally established the University. Here were students like Carlota Matienzo, Isabel Andréu, Loaíza Cordero, Marina Roviro, and Juan Herrero.

On September 22 of 1913, the Departments of Law and Pharmacology opened. The University at the time demanded only 8th grade diploma, but with the expansion of its courses, these requirements grew also. After 1917, the Departments of Normal , Liberal Arts, Pharmacology and Laws demanded High School diploma.

The Bronze Circle inside of the Tower

Curiously the small bell at the time, to call people to class, was ringed by Demetrio Valdejulli, who made this labour until 1920. Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (2816 × 2112 pixel, file size: 1. ... Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (2816 × 2112 pixel, file size: 1. ...

On February 21st 1931, Dr.Carlos E. Chardón was appointed to chancellor of the University. Due to his efforts and influences, a generous quantity of money was assigned to the University, which were used to make an expansion of the buildings, to Río Piedras and Mayagüez Campus. This made the University of Puerto Rico into a prestigious centre. Chardón resigned to the post of Chancellor in 1936, being succeeded by Juan B. Soto. The most important part of this period was the expansion of the buildings of the University as part of a plan for rehabilitation of Puerto Rico.

Antonia's mural at the Humanities Building of the University of Puerto Rico

The symbolical Tower, constructed in 1937 received the name of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who at the time was President of the United States, in recognition to the interest and help he placed to the University and its construction. It's the entrance of the Tower's Building. On the entrance of the Tower, in a bronze circle, the coat of arms of the American nations are placed, as symbol of Panamerican Union. Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (2816 × 2112 pixel, file size: 1. ... Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (2816 × 2112 pixel, file size: 1. ... The University of Puerto Rico at Río Piedras (UPRRP) —or Recinto Universitario de Río Piedras (RRP) in Spanish— is a state university located in the city of San Juan, Puerto Rico. ...

The University was the focus of social upheaval during the 1960 and 1970's, when nationalist students protested for civil rights, the independence of Puerto Rico, and taking the ROTC out of the campus. In 1970 Antonia Martínez was murdered by the police when they repressed students. As the shouting started in the street, everyone in the building she was in, on the Ponce de León Avenue, got to the balconies to see what was happening. She was, like many others, watching the events, policemen attacking at the students, and allegedly shouted at the Police ¡Asesinos! (Assassins!). A policeman turned and shot her in the head, killing her and injuring a room-mate. A mural of her and her story existed on the College of Humanities, until administrative personnel covered it with paint to repress student expressions. The Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) is a training program of the United States armed forces present on college campuses to recruit and educate commissioned officers. ... Antonia Martínez Lagares was a 21 year old student at the University of Puerto Rico at Río Piedras, native of Arecibo. ...

Administrative Division

The famous clock tower, in the campus's main building.

There are four Deans - Academic Affairs (lit. Asuntos Académicos in Spanish), Student Affairs (lit. Asuntos Estudiantiles), Graduate Studies and Research (Estudios Graduados e Investigación), and Administration. Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 450 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (2112 × 2816 pixel, file size: 1,013 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) EspañolTorre Roosevelt de la Universidad de Puerto Rico, Recinto de Río Piedras English Torre Roosevelt of the Río Piedras Campus of... Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 450 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (2112 × 2816 pixel, file size: 1,013 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) EspañolTorre Roosevelt de la Universidad de Puerto Rico, Recinto de Río Piedras English Torre Roosevelt of the Río Piedras Campus of...

Academic Affairs

Academic Affairs (DAA in Spanish Decanato de Asuntos Académicos) instigates academic excellence, giving guidance and orientation for harmonical planning with the Campus Strategic Plan. It implants academic politics, and looks for the effectivity on the improvement of all personnel. It promotes and designs institutional investigations and coordinates accreditation processes. It evaluates the programmes given in the University, while trying to improve the institutional effectiveness.

It's responsible for the suitable development of the services in the Libraries, Register, Admissions and Continuated Education. It assesses the Rector and the adequate units, such as the Administrative Council and the Academic Senate on the development of new politics, and efficacy of processes, planification, and academic decisions.

It's organised with a Dean heading it, with the help of the Associated Dean and 3 Auxiliar Deans, each assigned a certain area of concern such as Foreign Students, General Studies, Commerce Faculty, the Library System, etcetera.

Student Affairs

The Deanship of Students is the leader organisation, compromised with an ever-changing academic population. They try to bring the most advanced technological resources in order to be of help in the services given at the University to Students.

Its stated mission is to "provide students with quality services in order of attending and satisfying the needs to propitiate the physical, emotional, social and recreational well-being of the student" as written on its page.

Some of the services it gives to the University among others, are:

• Medical Services
• Cultural Activities
• Economical Assistance
• Orientation

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School of Graduate Studies and Research

The Deanship promotes, coordinates and facilitates initiatives to develop graduate programmes, creative labour and investigations. The DEGI (for Spanish Decanato de Estudios Graduados e Investigación) is to be to the vanguard of changing styles on Higher Education, Academic Management, Learning Communities, and Technological Changes so that changes on the campus' organisations better the institutional environment of all areas, mostly those where Graduate Studies impact more. It should be the catalyst of favourable institutional changes. A graduate school is the school that a college student may attend after completion of his or her undergraduate education in order to obtain a degree higher than a Bachelors degree. ...

Faculties having to do with it are:

• School of Architecture
• School of Communication
• School of Law
• College of Business Administration
• Graduate School of Informational Sciences and Technologies
• Graduate School of Planning
• College of Natural Sciences
• College of Social Sciences
• College of Education
• College of Humanities

Some of the investigations being made by the deanship are: This article is about building architecture. ... Communication is a process that allows beings - in particular humans - to exchange information by several methods. ... Lady Justice or Justitia is a personification of the moral force that underlies the legal system (particularly in Western art). ... Master of Business Administration (MBA) is a tertiary degree in business management. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... The term natural science as the way in which different fields of study are defined is determined as much by historical convention as by the present day meaning of the words. ... The social sciences are a group of academic disciplines that study human aspects of the world. ... The humanities are those academic disciplines which study the human condition using methods that are largely analytic, critical, or speculative, as distinguished from the mainly empirical approaches of the natural and social sciences. ...

• Sociocultural analysis of consumerist practices of contemporary Puerto Rico. - in Spanish
• Communication via Computers on the study of Psychology (CMCEP in Spanish). - in Spanish
• A Study of Violence in Puerto Rico. - in Spanish

The Deanship motto is "Aprendiendo del pasado, transformamos el presente, para construir el futuro." (Learning from our past, we transform our present, in order to build the future.)

Administration

The Deanship of Administration is the unit that offers essential services to the universitary community: it implements and guards for the proper fulfilment of the reglamentations that rule over administrative processes of the Campus and the entire Universitary System. It planifies, coordinates, evaluates and supervises labours related with different administrative and operative processes, but over all, they ensure quality services that have a positive aspect on student life, teaching and learning scenarios, investigational areas, laboural areas of conformities, according to the Campus mission and the Public Administration that commands the University.

Besides the emphasis placed on the quality of services, they work to strengthen the learning components and to establish policies and practices leading to a reduction of its role. In order to do so, the Deanship of Administration has the Dean's Office and six principal offices; these being:

• Finances
• Purchases and Supplies
• Universitary Library
• Human Resources Office
• Governmental Ethics Committee
• Complementary Services

At the same time, the Office of Complementary Services its constituted by seven units:

• Internal Mail and Messengers
• Reproduction Centre
• Central Archives
• Printing Division
• Food Services
• Telephonic Services

School and Colleges

School of Architecture

Arquitectura

College of Business Administration

The College of Business Administration, previously College of Commerce, was established on Campus on 1926 with a roll of 70 students on a nocturnal programme. From its beginning, it has offered preparation of university level in many areas of Business Administration. It also offers a Bachelor's Degree in Administration of Office Systems, which substituted the Secretarial Sciences Bachelor's Degree.

In 1958 the Centre for Commercial Investigations and for Academical Initiatives with the purpose of promoting investigation and contribute in the creation of knowledge in the area of Business Administration. Eventually, Cooperative Education, Link (Enlace), International Commerce Development and Enterprise Development programmes, in order to have a narrower collaboration with business world.

In the academic year of 1970-71, the Graduated School of Business Administration began offering Master's Degree in Business Administration (MBA) making it the first of its kind in the Caribbean. In addition to Master's Degree the School offers altogether with Law School and the Doctoral Programme of Business Management the MBA/JD Programme which is built towards guidance on professional practice, whilst the Doctoral Programme is orientated towards investigation.

Student enrollment in the College of Business Administration is approximately 2,800 undergraduates and 400 graduate students. This College enrollment is the third highest in the Río Piedras Campus. Nearly 530 Bachelor's degrees and 50 Graduate degrees are conferred annually. 63% of the students of the College are female, similar to the 67% of population of Río Piedras Campus being female.

School of Communication

The School of Communication (COPU, formerly known as Comunicación Pública in Spanish, from where the acronym comes COmunicación PUblica) was established in 1972 with a masters degree in Public Communication. A bachelors degree was created in 1977. Following a curricular revision that went into effect in 2002 three undergraduate majors were developed: It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Backronym and Apronym (Discuss) Acronyms and initialisms are abbreviations, such as NATO, laser, and ABC, written as the initial letter or letters of words, and pronounced on the basis of this abbreviated written form. ... Mass communication is the term used to describe the academic study of various means by which individuals and entities relay information to large segments of the population all at once through mass media. ...

• Audiovisual Communication
• Information and Journalism
• Public Relations and Publicity

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• Journalism
• Theory and Research

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College of Education

Educación

The Eugenio María de Hostos College of Education (in Spanish Facultad de Educación Eugenio María de Hostos) is the biggest and oldest college of the University of Puerto Rico, founded in October 1, 1900 as the Normal School of Teachers (Escuela Normal para Maestros) in the Puerto Rican eastern city of Fajardo. The College have an estimate of 4,000 students who study in six different colleges of the University. The College headquarters are located in the New Building of Education in the south of the campus, and administrate 9 buildings in all the campus, including a house in Downtown Río Piedras District in San Juan.

The academic offers of the college include Philosophy of the Education, Human Development, Sociology, Psychology of the Education, Studies of Special Education and Students with Disabilities, Junior Elementary Literature, Nutrition, Cooking, Technology, Graphic Arts, etc. Even thou, the college make affairs with other faculties in the campus to prepare the High School Education schedulle as Spanish, English, Science, Mathematics, History, Social Studies, Art, Theatre, Comerce, Secretary and others. Physical Education and Sports are offered in the Sports Complex at the north side of the campus, also belong to the College.

The dean is Angeles Molina Iturrondo Ed. D. and the other three administrative deans are: Dr. Hector Claudio, Dean of Student Affairs; Dr. Lizette Velazquez, Dean of Academic Affairs; and Mrs. Luz María Rivera, Dean of College Administration.

Carlos López is the student representative to the Academic Senate of the Río Piedras Campus and José E. Santiago is the president of the College of Education Students Council (Consejo de Estudiantes de la Facultad de Educación).

The college moved to Río Piedras once the University was founded in March 12, 1903

College of General Studies

History of the College

The General Studies Division was created in 1943 and becomes a College in 1945. The creation of the general studies programme is the cornerstone of the 1942 University's Reform. Inside of the University's System, the College has the particularity of being constituted as a multi and inter disciplinarian, wherein three great sections of knowledge converge: Humanities (including Vernacular Spanish, its literary and linguistic components), Social Sciences and Natural Sciences, and English as a second language, including its literary and linguistic components. The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ...

Courses

The College of General Studies offers these courses, which will vary depending on the requirements asked by the different Colleges the student heads to.

• Humanities
• Spanish
• English
• Biological Sciences
• Social Sciences
• Physical Sciences
• General Studies

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College of Humanities

Humanidades

School of Law

Derecho

College of Natural Sciences

The College of Natural Sciences of the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus was established in 1943, in the city of San Juan in the central northern area of the island.

With a large student body, the college provides one of the best educations in science in Latin America with degrees in Biology, Chemistry, Computer Science, Environmental Science, General Science, Mathematics, and Physics.

The college annually admits approximately 2,700 students, including those who continue graduate studies at the Medical Sciences Campus.

Those students who transfer to the Medical Sciences Campus will be part of any of the following programs:

 * Medical Technology * Nuclear Medicine Technology * Veterinary Medicine Technology 

One of our goals is to increase the number of students who go on to graduate studies either at our campus or outside. About 300 students annually go on to graduate studies in Biology, Chemistry, Mathematics, and Physics. At our college, there are doctoral programs available in Biology, Mathematics, and Physics Chemistry.

We are very proud of our students, of whom about 1,980 have graduated from our programs between 1995 and 2000.

 * 1,578 students graduated with a bachelor's degree * 102 students earned their master's degree, and * 59 students received a doctorate degree 

The College of Natural Sciences has been distinguished for offering our students a high-quality education. Thanks to this, a large percentage of our students are prepared to continue doctoral studies in many fields of research.

During the past 30 years, the College of Natural Sciences has undergone a dramatic evolution. Our students not only pursue studies in Medicine, but are also well prepared to enter professions which involve other areas of research. Likewise, they are well trained to pursue graduate studies in science related fields.

Throughout its history, the college has made a great impact in science and technology in Puerto Rico and is well positioned to be increasingly competitive in research and education at an international level.

Graduate School of Planning

Planificación

College of Social Sciences

The College of Social Sciences (CISO, Ciencias Sociales in Spanish, from where the acronym comes CIencias SOciales) was established in 1943 and bears with the mission of teaching Universal Knowledge on Social Sciences and social comprehension of the nation. It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Backronym and Apronym (Discuss) Acronyms and initialisms are abbreviations, such as NATO, laser, and ABC, written as the initial letter or letters of words, and pronounced on the basis of this abbreviated written form. ...

It offers studies in the Departments of:

• Anthropology
• Psychology
• Political Science
• Social Sciences (General)
• Rehabilitation Counselling
• Cooperativism
• Economy
• Public Administration
• Social Work
• Geography
• Psychology
• Job Relations
• Sociology

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EGCTI

EGCTI (Escuela Graduada de Ciencias y Tecnologías de la Información) - Graduate School of Informatic Sciences and Technologies

Continuing Education Division

Educación Continuada

Academic Senate

The Academic Senate is the official forum of the academic community. Its members participate on the institutional processes, establishing academic rules, collaborating with other organisms of the University's system, and completing the tasks that the General Rules of the University of Puerto Rico legally binds them to.

The Senate is composed by 68 persons:

• 1 President ex-officio (Rector of the Campus)
• 18 ex-officio Senators (15 deans and 3 students)
• 37 elected senators of the staff meetings
• 12 Student Senators widely elected.

Committees

Chapter XIV of the Rules of the Academic Senate of the Río Piedras Campus establishes that there will be the next committees:

• Calendar Committee
• Academic Affairs Committee
• Staff Affairs Committee
• Student Affairs Committee
• Law and Rules Committee
• Academic and Honorific Committee

Campus population

• Students: 21,500
• Faculty: 1,060

Greek life

* Member of Concilio Interfraternitario de Puerto Rico (Inter-Fraternity Council of Puerto Rico)

Phi Eta Mu	Mu Alpha Phi	Eta Gamma Delta	Phi Sigma Alpha
Nu Sigma Beta	Alpha Beta Chi	Phi Delta Gamma	Image:University of Puerto Rico at Rio Piedras.seal.jpg

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See Also

• Río Piedras massacre

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External links

• University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus - official site
• WRTU 89.7 FM - Radio Universidad de Puerto Rico, radio station operated by the Río Piedras Campus
• Academic Affairs - official site
• Student Affairs - official site
• Tendenciaspr research project of the UPR