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<\/STRONG>P<\/SPAN><\/SPAN>rivate and public universities in the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico should draw up strategic plans to help focus their resources in an effort to minimize the impact of the economic crisis affecting their finances, says Jorge Iv\u00e1n V\u00e9lez Arocho, the president of the Pontifical Catholic University of Puerto Rico.
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…\u201cthe major challenge\u201d of academies is \u201chow to maintain the agenda for the future\u201d in times \u201cof such financial fragility.<\/P>
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V\u00e9lez Arocho explained that \u201cthe richest universities and the less wealthy ones have established policies to cut costs as a strategy to confront the difficult financial situation\u201d the world is facing. He added that \u201cour economy is experiencing moments unlike we’ve ever seen before. This situation is impacting and will impact each organization and individual in our cities including our universities.\u201d <\/P>
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For this reason the V\u00e9lez Arocho is suggesting that \u201cthe major challenge\u201d of academies is \u201chow to maintain the agenda for the future\u201d in times \u201cof such financial fragility.\u201d He understands that the universities should not lose sight of their mission to educate and train. <\/P>
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\u201cThe strategic plans help us focus our resources in the critical areas that will move us toward the future in the context of limitations and difficult decisions that we will need to adopt,\u201d emphasized V\u00e9lez Arocho. <\/P>
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The president of the Pontifical Catholic University of Puerto Rico received an honorary doctorate, Honoris Causa, from the APEC University in recognition of his extraordinary contribution to education, research and professional development in Latin America and the Caribbean. <\/P>
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The investiture was took place in the new Crist\u00f3bal Tejeda Multi-Use Hall at the academy. The event was headed by the president of Board of Directors of UNAPEC, Francisco Hern\u00e1ndez, Rector, and Justo Pedro Castellanos as well as Ligia Amada Melo, the Minister of Higher Education. Other rectors from private Dominican universities were also in attendance. <\/P>
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UNAPEC Director Justo Pedro said that V\u00e9lez Arocho’s effort was \u201can extraordinary, vital and impressive trajectory characterized by decency, humility, generosity, solidarity, commitment and a decisive participation in the construction of a better world.\u201d<\/P>
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In speaking at the investiture, Castellanos said that thanks to the institutional relations that have been forged with the president of the Pontifical Catholic University of Puerto Rico, it has been possible to create academic programs on a post-graduate and Masters level which are \u201cpioneers and unique in the Dominican framework and on the national developmental level.\u201d
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The words of welcome at the event were given by Francisco Hern\u00e1ndez, president of the Board of Directors of UNAPEC. Following him Vice-Rector Carlos Sangiovanni spoke about the life of V\u00e9lez Arocho.<\/P>
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The Honoris Causa was bestowed upon him by the Rector Justo Pedro Castellanos and the Academic Vice-Rector Carlos Sangiovanni.<\/P>
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After accepting the distinction from UNAPEC, the Puerto Rican academic shared his thoughts on the four most important points of the World Declaration on Higher Education in the XXI Century: Vision and Action, which was approved by the World Conference on Higher Education on October 9, 1998 and which provides a framework for prioritized action for changes and for the development of higher education in our hemisphere. <\/P>
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Until 2009, V\u00e9lez Arocho was the Rector of the Mayag\u00fcez campus of the University of Puerto Rico, a post he held since 2002. He will be in his new job as president of the Catholic academy for a period of six years. <\/P>
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Since 1978, V\u00e9lez Arocho has been involved in research projects in Puerto Rico, the Caribbean and Costa Rica, among other nations. He formed part of the project along with Dr. Jorge Gonz\u00e1lez to prepare a Business Plan for the use of solar power for the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. Later he proposed doing the same project in the Dominican Republic and Trinidad-Tobago.<\/P>
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V\u00e9lez Arocho has collaborated with and prepared research and development proposals on the evaluation of the impact of technology, the establishment of a Hemispheric Center for Training in Legal Metrology, Quality and Certification of Laboratories in Puerto Rico, the development of an interdisciplinary option in chemistry with an emphasis on managerial procedures, the development of a research center in Sources of Renewable Energy as well as an initiative for an integrated system of support for decisions governing the management of water resources in Puerto Rico. <\/P>
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Universities Advocate for Strategic Plans to Alleviate Economic CrisisPrivate and public universities in the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico should draw up strategic plans to help focus their resources in an effort to minimize the impact of the economic crisis affecting their finances, says Jorge Iv\u00e1n V\u00e9lez Arocho, the president of the Pontifical Catholic University … Continue reading “Universities Advocate for Strategic Plans to Alleviate Economic Crisis”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-noticias"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3651"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3651\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}