2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE EIGHTEEN - Education (§§ 1 — 3510-3520) › PART II - University of Puerto Rico (§§ 601 — 856b) › Chapter 40 - University of Puerto Rico Act (§§ 601 — 614) › § 603 - Organization

(a) The University of Puerto Rico shall constitute an organic system of higher education, composed of the following institutional units and those hereafter created, which shall function with academic and administrative autonomy within the standards provided by this chapter and those that may be set forth in the University regulations or in resolutions of the Board of Trustees, created by §§ 852 et seq. of this title:
(1) The Río Piedras University Campus, which shall be integrated by all the schools, colleges, faculties, departments, institutes, research centers and other dependencies at present comprising the Río Piedras precinct of the University of Puerto Rico;
(2) the Mayagüez University Campus, which shall be integrated by all the schools, colleges, faculties, departments, institutes, research centers and other dependencies at present operating in the College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts of the University of Puerto Rico. The Agricultural Experiment Station and the Agricultural Extension Service shall be integrated to this campus in the administrative and programmatic phases and their qualified personnel shall be incorporated into the faculty as the Council may determine, in order that the campus, as beneficiary of the act of the United States Congress approved August 30, 1890, as amended, known as the “Second Morrill Act”, and of all acts of Congress complementary thereto, may foster and develop a university agricultural system integrating teaching, experimentation and divulgation;
(3) the Medical Sciences University Campus, which shall be integrated by the School of Medicine and Tropical Medicine, the School of Odontology, and the other schools, services, institutes and programs for teaching and research in the arts and sciences of health, which at present constitute the San Juan precinct of the University of Puerto Rico, and
(4) the colleges under the Administration of Regional Colleges granted autonomy to conduct their affairs by the Board of Trustees.
(b) The University of Puerto Rico shall have the duty to draft and publish every two (2) years the Puerto Rico Human Development Report. This Report shall be based on the Human Development Report annually published by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). Upon the publication of each report, the University shall update the methodology to be used in Puerto Rico, in accordance with the new methodological advances implemented by the UNDP. To comply with this duty, the University shall be provided with the technical assistance of the Puerto Rico Statistics Institute, created by virtue of the Puerto Rico Institute of Statistics Act, §§ 971 et seq. of Title 3. The Puerto Rico Human Development Report shall include the estimate of the Human Development Index, the Inequality-Adjusted Human Development Index, the Gender Inequality Index, and all other indicators that the University and the Institute may deem pertinent or valuable.
—Jan. 20, 1966, No. 1, p. 85, § 4; Aug. 7, 1998, No. 186, § 1; Apr. 8, 2016, No. 29, § 1.
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