Celeste Freytes

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

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Freytes and the second or maternal family name is Gonzalez.

Freytes Gonzalez announced on February 16, 2017, that she and other UPR leaders were renouncing from their positions, a move that was investigated by the Puerto Rican senate.[3] She was substituted by Nivia Fernandez as interim president of the UPR.


Biography

Freytes Gonzalez graduated from a local university in San Juan in 1979. She studied at the University of Puerto Rico and earned her doctoral degree from Boston University 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 transitional 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
  1. "Ratificada la Dra. Celeste Freytes como Presidenta Interina UPR" (in Spanish).
  2. Rodríguez, Por Perla (July 8, 2016). "Presidenta interina de la UPR: "Estoy aquí para mantener el movimiento de esta institución"" (in Spanish).
  3. https://www.elnuevodia.com/noticias/politica/notas/senado-investigara-las-renuncias-masivas-de-rectores-en-la-upr/
  4. "Celeste Freytes González asume presidencia interina de la UPR". Univision (in Spanish).
  5. "Aseguran gobernador ya busca sustituto para Román". www.wapa.tv (in Spanish).


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