page_title: List of Puerto Ricans
section_title: Educators
hierarchical_section_title: List of Puerto Ricans / Educators
caption_attribution_description: English: Political Scientist
context_page_description: This is a list of notable people from Puerto Rico which includes people who were born in Puerto Rico and people who are of full or partial Puerto Rican descent. The Government of Puerto Rico has been issuing "Certificates of Puerto Rican Citizenship" to anyone born in Puerto Rico or to anyone born outside of Puerto Rico with at least one parent who was born in Puerto Rico since 2007. Also included in the list are some long-term continental American and other residents and/or immigrants of other ethnic heritages who have made Puerto Rico their home and consider themselves to be Puerto Ricans.
  The list is divided into categories and, in some cases, sub-categories, which best describe the field for which the subject is most noted. Some categories such as "Actors, actresses, comedians and directors" are relative since a subject who is a comedian may also be an actor or director. In some cases a subject may be notable in more than one field, such as Luis A. Ferré, who is notable both as a former governor and as an industrialist. However, the custom is to place the subject's name under the category for which he/she is most noted.
context_section_description: Ursula Acosta, educator; one of the founding members of the Sociedad Puertorriqueña de Genealogía (Puerto Rican Genealogical Society)
  Alfredo M. Aguayo, educator and writer; established the first laboratory of child psychology at the University of Havana
  Carlos Albizu Miranda, psychologist, educator; first Hispanic educator to have a North American university renamed in his honor and one of the first Hispanics to earn a PhD in Psychology in the US
  Margot Arce de Vázquez, educator; founder of the Department of Hispanic Studies in the University of Puerto Rico
  Jaime Benítez, former Resident Commissioner; longest serving chancellor and president of the University of Puerto Rico
  Frank Bonilla, educator; academic who became a leading figure in Puerto Rican studies
  Carlos E. Chardón Palacios, first Puerto Rican mycologist and first Puerto Rican appointed as Chancellor of the University of Puerto Rico
  Carlos A. Chardón López, educator and public administrator; the only Puerto Rican to serve twice as Puerto Rico Secretary of Education
  Edna Coll, educator and author; President of the Society of Puerto Rican Authors in San Juan; founder of the Academy of Fine Arts in Puerto Rico
  Celestina Cordero, educator; in 1820, founded the first school for girls in Puerto Rico
  Rafael Cordero, educator; declared Venerable in 2004 by Pope John Paul II; the process for beatification is now in motion with Benedictine Fr. Oscar Rivera as Procurator of the Cause
  Waded Cruzado, first Hispanic president of Montana State University
  Eugenio María de Hostos, educator; in Peru, he helped to develop that country's educational system and spoke against the harsh treatment given to the Chinese who lived there. He stayed in Chile from 1870-73. During his stay there, he taught at the University of Chile and gave a speech titled "The Scientific Education of Women;" he proposed that governments permit women in their colleges; soon after, Chile allowed women to enter its college educational system (see also "Politicians" and "Authors).
  Angelo Falcón, political scientist; author of Atlas of Stateside Puerto Ricans (2004); co-editor of Boricuas in Gotham: Puerto Ricans in the Making of Modern New York City (2004)
  José Ferrer Canales, educator, writer and activist
  Megh R. Goyal, professor, historian, scientist; "father of irrigation engineering in Puerto Rico"; Professor in Agricultural & Biomedical Engineering at University of Puerto Rico
  Sonia Gutierrez, (born July 8, 1939) is an American educator and Hispanic rights activist. She was principal, counselor and advocate for adult students at the Carlos Rosario International Public Charter School, an adult charter school in Washington, D.C.
  Felix V. Matos Rodriguez, educator; Chancellor of the City University of New York
  Concha Meléndez, educator, writer poet
  Ana G. Méndez, educator; founder of the Ana G. Méndez University System
  Ingrid Montes, educator, professor of chemistry at the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras
  Antonio Miró Montilla, architect, educator; first architect appointed head of a government agency, the Puerto Rico Public Buildings Authority, 1969–71; first dean of the School of Architecture at the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus, 1971–78; Chancellor of the Río Piedras Campus of the University of Puerto Rico, 1978-85
  Antonia Pantoja, educator; founder of ASPIRA; awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom
  Ángel Ramos, educator; Superintendent of the Sequoia Schools for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing; one of the few deaf Hispanics to earn a doctorate from Gallaudet University
  Dr. Juan A. Rivero, educator; founded the Dr. Juan A. Rivero Zoo in Mayagüez; discovered numerous animal species and has written several books
  Havidan Rodriguez, educator and scholar; President of the University at Albany, SUNY, 2017–present; first Latino/Hispanic President of any four-year SUNY institution
  Ana Roque, educator and suffragist; one of the founders of the University of Puerto Rico
  Carlos E. Santiago, economist and educator; Chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
  Ninfa Segarra, New York City
caption: Drawing of Angelo Falcón
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