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In January
1998 a comprehensive formal exchange agreement between the
University of Puerto Rico
and the University of Connecticut
was signed by President Norman Maldonado (UPR) and Chancellor
Mark Emmert (UCONN) to facilitate exchanges of faculty and students,
as well as to facilitate a broad range of cooperative efforts
in
the areas of research, funding, and outreach over the next five
years. With 69,000 students spread over several campuses, the
University of Puerto Rico is the largest Hispanic- serving university
in the
United States. As part of this agreement, the University of Puerto
Rico will cooperate fully with UConn's Institute of Puerto Rican
and Latino Studies in the development of seminars and colloquia
series and in other projects or programs that might be of interest
to both parties. This cooperation was initiated in April 1998
through the co-sponsorship by the University of Puerto Rico of
the inaugural
symposium in the University of Connecticut's Latino Awareness
Month program entitled "Puerto Rico's Self-Determination at
a Crossroads: Statehood, Independence, or Commonwealth?" President
Maldonado and Chancellor Mark Emmert attended and spoke at the
event together
with a distinguished panel including the Hon. Jose Trias Monge,
Chief Justice, Puerto Rico Supreme Court, 1974-85; Senator Kenneth
McClintock, member of the Puerto Rico Senate with the
Partido Nuevo Progresista, and Jeffrey L. Farrow, Co-Chair, White
House
Interagency Working Group on Puerto Rico. |
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