Pontifical Catholic University of Puerto Rico
| Pontifical Catholic University of Puerto Rico Pontificia Universidad Católica de Puerto Rico - PUCPR - |
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| motto | Evangelización y Educación de Altura |
| founding | 1948 |
| Sponsorship | Roman Catholic Church |
| place | Ponce |
| country |
 Puerto Rico
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| president | Jorge Iván Vélez Arocho |
| Students | approx.12,000 (2011) |
| Networks | FIUC |
| Website | www.pucpr.edu |
The Pontifical Catholic University of Puerto Rico ( Spanish : Pontificia Universidad Católica de Puerto Rico , short: PUCPR ) is a Puerto Rican university under papal law .
history
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The Pontifical Catholic University of Puerto Rico was founded in 1948 as the Catholic University of Santa Maria by James Edward McManus CSsR, Bishop of Ponce , and James Peter Davis , Archbishop of San Juan de Puerto Rico . Vicente Murga was the founding president. The university seat was in the Colegio San Conrado in Ponce , a Catholic primary school. In 1949, 120 km² was released for development by the state authorities. In 1950 the name was changed to Catholic University of Puerto Rico . On January 25, 1991, under Pope John Paul II , it was recognized as a university under papal law .
In 1961 the Faculty of Law (Escuela de Derecho) was set up, an exchange program with the USA and Spain was initiated, and faculty such as Rafael Hernández Colón , Governor of Puerto Rico, were hired. In 1976 the Faculty of Medicine (Escuela de Medicina) was set up , from which the Ponce School of Medicine & Health Services was founded in 1980. In 2009 the Faculty of Architecture was opened . The establishment of the graphic design and fashion design faculties and a film school are planned .
Well-known personalities of the PUCPR were Juan Fremiot Torres Oliver and Luis Cardinal Aponte Martínez as well as Ivan Illich .
organization
The university offers undergraduate , graduate , and Ph.D. Studies at.
The university's headquarters are in Canas Urbano, a district of Ponce . In 1982, the offshoot of the Pontifical Catholic University of Puerto Rico in Mayagüez in Mayagüez and the Pontifical Catholic University of Puerto Rico in Arecibo in Arecibo, initially as a university center, from 1996 as Mayagüez campus respectively. Arecibo Campus established. There is another campus in Coamo.
Faculties
- Business administration
- Arts and Humanities
- Natural sciences
- Educational Sciences
- Law Faculty
- architecture
- Insttituto Graduate Studies
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Members. In: www.fiuc.org. International Federation of Catholic Universities, accessed September 22, 2019 .
- ↑ Cristóbal Colón: A mis amigos de la Universidad Católica. Publicaciones Puertorriqueñas, Ponce, PR 1993, OCLC 33335488 .
- ↑ Con ambiciosa agenda La Católica. ( Memento of the original from May 29, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: La Perla del Sur. November 9, 2011.
- ↑ Historia (Universidad Católica de Puerto Rico). ( Memento of the original from September 1, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved April 11, 2012.
Coordinates: 18 ° 0 ′ 8.8 ″ N , 66 ° 37 ′ 2.3 ″ W.