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) › § 606 - Chancellors

(a) The university campuses and colleges shall each be under the direction of a chancellor.
(b) The chancellor shall exercise administrative and academic authority within the scope of his/her respective institutional unit pursuant to the provisions of this chapter and the university standards and regulations. The chancellors shall be nominated by the President of the University after consultation with the respective Academic Senates, for their consideration by the Board of Trustees.
(c) Duties and attributes of the chancellors and directors in their respective institutional units shall be:
(1) To orient and supervise the university personnel and the teaching, technical, research and administrative functions.
(2) To frame the budget proposal based on the recommendations of the departments, faculties and other dependencies, which, after approved by the Administrative Board, shall be submitted for the pertinent purposes, as above provided, to the President and the University Board.
(3) To represent the respective institutional unit at acts, ceremonies and academic functions.
(4) To preside over the Academic Senate, the Administrative Board and the faculty’s meetings.
(5) To appoint the Deans after consultation with the corresponding faculty, with simultaneous notice to the President and the Board of Trustees. These appointments shall become effective after the lapse of a given period of time to be set by regulation and which shall not exceed sixty (60) days from the date of notice. The Board of Trustees shall summon and hear the chancellors and the President to evaluate said appointments, and shall convey its decision approving or disapproving the same within that period of time. The Deans shall remain in office at the will of the corresponding Chancellor. The appointments of other officials who, while not presiding [over] faculties, hold the title of dean, shall be made in consultation with the Academic Senate. The Chancellor of the Mayagüez Campus shall appoint the directors of the Agricultural Experimental Station and the Agricultural Extension Service with the approval of the Board of Trustees and after consultation with the teaching personnel of these dependencies and, upon proposal of the directors by the personnel thereof.
(6) To appoint the directors of departments and of other dependencies attached to a faculty, upon recommendation of the dean after the latter’s consultation with the corresponding department or dependency.
(7) To appoint or contract the university personnel of their institutional units. The deans shall propose the appointment or contracting of the teaching personnel on recommendation of the director of the corresponding department or dependency upon the latter’s consultation with the members of said department or dependency.
(8) To appoint visiting lecturers and, with the approval of the President, any other type of visiting personnel.
(9) To pass on appeals taken against decisions of the deans.
(10) To render an annual report on the activities of their institutional units to the President and the Council.
(11) To exercise the authority granted to the Chancellor of the University under §§ 678—681 of this title, with respect to their institutional units.
(12) To establish mechanisms as necessary so that the various entities that compose the university system, such as administrative boards, faculty members, students, and academic senates, may carry out their decision-making processes pursuant to the provisions of this chapter.
History —Jan. 20, 1966, No. 1, p. 85, § 7; Aug. 7, 1998, No. 186, § 4; Aug. 11, 2010, No. 128, § 2.