With the start of the new academic year, the Governing Board from University of Puerto Rico (UPR) to constitute, in an ordinary meeting held today, August 26, what will be its new Executive Committee, As well as standing and special committees that will be working for the year 2021-2022.
As part of the work, the doctor Mayda Velasco Bonilla was elected, in a majority vote, new president of the Governing Board of the UPR. The scientist was pleased with the results of the meeting, as well as excited about his new order.
“We recognize that the University of Puerto Rico has faced endless challenges over the years. However, we continue to take a firm step toward the real transformation of the institution seeking to leave behind, as soon as possible, the intervention of the Fiscal Supervision Board by complying with the Certified Fiscal Plan. My commitment is to the UPR and to the efforts to bring the clear message to the Fiscal Board so that they understand that the University of Puerto Rico has already received substantial cuts in the past four years and that now what we need is time to implement the measures. traced, ”the president established by entering written statements.
Velasco Bonilla replaces the engineer as leader of the Governing Board Emilio Colón Beltrán, Who remains as a member of the body.
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Similarly, Velasco Bonilla affirmed his “north to provide students with an academic offer of excellence and tempered to professional market demand, revitalize the physical facilities of the university system, maximize federal funds, create efficiency and administrative agility that results in better service for students, which are our raison d’être. “
On the other hand, the academic, who until now acted as vice president of the body, stressed that “we will continue to evaluate how to improve the working conditions of teachers and also non-teaching employees through a new Plan of Classification and Remuneration, that adjusts to the times and needs of the university “.
on the Research and Consultation Committee, In charge of identifying and evaluating the candidates to chair the UPR, it was reported that it will be constituted in the coming days.
“We are grateful for the availability of the doctor Mayra Olavarría Creu to chair the UPR on an interim basis, providing stability to the academic, research and administrative operation, while a chairperson is selected. The Governing Board, which I am now honored to chair, has as a priority to identify a person who, after the implementation of the measures of the Fiscal Plan, can focus on revitalizing the institution and raising substantial external funds. As a Board of Governors, our role is to empower this person to assume the leadership of the university system, establishing a public policy that truly allows him to be agile and efficient in the search for new strategies for growth and international projection of the main teaching and scientific center of the island “, said Velasco Bonilla.