Celeste Freytes

This name uses Spanish naming customs: the first or paternal family name is Freytes and the second or maternal family name is Gonzalez.

Celeste Freytes Gonzalez (born 1950s) is a Puerto Rican teacher who was named, in 2013, interim President of the Universidad de Puerto Rico.[1] When ratified in that position during 2016, She substituted Uroyoan Walker Ramos as president of the instition[2] and Dr. Jose Lasalde as interim President.[3]

Biography

Freytes Gonzalez graduated from a local university in San Juan in 1979. She was a teacher on the Puerto Rican education system for 36 years, and at the moment of her ascending to interim President of the UPR (PRU) she was a commissioner on the Middle States Commission on Higher Education.[4]

In 2013, Freytes was a member of Puerto Rico Governor Alejandro Garcia Padilla's trancisional team before he took office as governor; Garcia Padilla contacted her directly about becoming interim president of the UPR before she was named to the position.[5]

See also

External links

  1. ↑ http://juntagobierno.upr.edu/ratificada-la-dra-celeste-freytes-como-presidenta-interina-upr/
  2. ↑ http://dialogoupr.com/presidenta-interina-de-la-upr-estoy-aqui-para-mantener-el-movimiento-de-esta-institucion/
  3. ↑ http://juntagobierno.upr.edu/ratificada-la-dra-celeste-freytes-como-presidenta-interina-upr/
  4. ↑ http://www.univision.com/noticias/universidades/celeste-freytes-gonzalez-asume-presidencia-interina-de-la-upr
  5. ↑ http://www.wapa.tv/noticias/locales/aseguran-gobernador-ya-busca-sustituto-para-roman_20131122244314.html


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