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February 3, 2000 Roosevelt Tower (officially: Franklin Delano Roosevelt Tower , Spanish : Torre Franklin Delano Roosevelt ), more popularly known as La Torre , is a 173.54 feet (52.89 m) [ 2 ] clock tower located above the main entrance to the Baldorioty de Castro Building in the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus .
University in Río Piedras, circa 1900-1917 The University of Puerto Rico at Río Piedras campus, and its iconic clock tower, the Roosevelt Tower. In the year 1900 the Escuela Normal Industrial (Normal Industrial School) was established in Fajardo, Puerto Rico, as the first institution of higher education in Puerto Rico dedicated to train those who would become teachers and educators. [10]
The University of Puerto Rico (Spanish: Universidad de Puerto Rico), often shortened to UPR, 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 44,200 students and approximately 4,450 faculty members. [4]
The Quadrangle (Spanish: El Cuadrángulo) is the heart and main quadrangle of the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras.Together with the Roosevelt Tower (La Torre), it is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and the Puerto Rico Register of Historic Sites and Zones as the University of Puerto Rico Tower and The Quadrangle, for its unique history which represents the union ...
The chancellor of the Arecibo campus, Ana Gómez, resigned to her job because José de la Torre asked her to do so after she supported the strikes. As a result, all the deans of the UPR Arecibo campus resigned from their positions. [27] [28] The HEEND and the "Asociación Puertorriqueña de Profesores Universitarios" (APPU) also joined the strike.
[2] He was also a founding member of the Puerto Rican Association of University Professors (APPU) in 1962 and co-founder of the program of translation of the UPR. [3] On January 27, 2010, he was elected by UPR's Board of Trustees to serve as the university's ninth president. De la Torre was sworn in on February 1, 2010.
The University of Puerto Rico at Utuado (UPRU or UPR-Utuado) is a public college in Utuado, Puerto Rico. Founded in 1979, it is the youngest of the campuses that compose the University of Puerto Rico system. UPR-Utuado is also known by its previous name Colegio Regional de la Montaña (Regional College of the Mountain) and its acronym "CORMO".
The University of Puerto Rico at Carolina (UPRC or UPR-Carolina) is a public college in Carolina, Puerto Rico. [1] It is part of the University of Puerto Rico (UPR) and is better known as CRCA or CUNICA from its former names in Spanish of Colegio Regional de Carolina and Colegio Universitario de Carolina respectively.