Commonwealth of Puerto Rico
HIGHER EDUCATION FACILITIES
COMPREHENSIVE PLANNING STUDY
1970 REPORT
Prepared by the Task Forcé for Comprehensive Planning of the COUNCIL ON HIGHER EDUCATION for the COMMISSION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF HIGHER EDUCATION October - I97I
This project was supported in part by a grant awarded under Title I of the Higher Education Facilities Act as amended,from the División of Academie Facilities of the U.S. Office of Education.
Commonwealth of Puerto Rico
Commission for the Advancement of Higher Education
Members as of June 30, 1970
Ramón Mellado
Jaime Benítez
Francisco J. Carreras
Sol L. Descartes
Rafael E. García-Bottari
Ana G. Méndez
Roberto Busó
José Trías Monge
Pedro J osé Rivera
José E. Arrarás
Adán Nigaglioni
Chairman and Secretary of Education
President, University of Puerto Rico
President, CathoUc University of Puerto Rico
President, Inter-American University of Puerto Rico
President, University College of the Sacred Heart
President, Puerto Rico Júnior College Foundation
Member Member
Chancellor, Río Piedras Campus, University of Puerto Rico
Chancellor, Mayagüez Campus, University of Puerto Rico
Chancellor, Medical Sciences Campus, University of Puerto Rico
Commonwealth of Puerto Rico
University of Puerto Rico
Council on Higher Education
Members as of June 30, 1970
Enrique Córdova-Díaz
Roberto de Jesús-Toro
Roberto Busó
José Trías-Monge
Víctor M. Pons
Celestina Zalduondo
Ramón Mellado
Juan José Jiménez
Andrés Salazar
Commonwealth of Puerto Rico
Council on Higher Education
Task Forcé for Comprehensive Planning
Members as of June 30, 1970
Roque Guzmán-Jusino
Ethel Ríos de Retancourt
Eduardo Barañano
Carlos L. Arcelay
Ramón Burgos
Rita Angélica Rincón de Rubiano
Florencio Diez
Ranfón A. Cruz
Juan M. García-Passalacqua
Council on Higher Education (Coordinator)
University of Puerto Rico, Central A(iministration
University of Puerto Rico, Central Administration
University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez Campus
University of Puerto Rico, Medical Sciences Campus
University CoUege of the Sacred Heart
Catholic University of Puerto Rico
Inter-American University of Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico Júnior College
During 1967-70 higher education in Puerto Rico had a great expansión in terms of the size of the institutions, the opportunities they provide and the variety of gradúate and undergraduate programs they offer. This growth, combined with a dearth of resources, has attracted the attention of the governing hodies of the institutions towards the need and convenience of a comprehensive and coordinated planning for higher education. By now the planning studies and efforts are well under way thru an inter-institutional task forcé working for the Council on Higher Education.
The task forcé has produced: (a) a proposal for a comprehensive system of economic assistance to needy students in the institutions of higher learning, to be implemented in harmony with a twin system of student guidance and counselhng, (b) a draft bill for the creatiori by law of the Coordinating Commission of Higher Education,(c) an identification of the major common problems of hoth public and private institutions of higher learning, with suggested Unes of action, and(d)a set of guidehnes for planning and development.
Presently, the task forcé is engaged in the design and implementation of an integrated information system for all higher education. The fírst tabulations and analyses produced by the system will be available by late faU, 1971.
Even though the master plan for higher education is not yet "complete",the participating institutions are already deriving benefits from their joint planning efforts. There are several examples of sharing of resources like computer services, audio-visual equipment, übrary services, academic programs and even teaching staff. A greater emphasis on research and experimentation on educational methods and media has been observed. There is a tendency towards uniform and modern administrativo procedures. FinaUy, there is evidence to the effect -that institutional planning and development is, to some extent, geared to broad interinstitutional concepts and criteria.
The basic problems of higher education in Puerto Rico may be summarized as:(1)lack of comprehensive and coordinated planning;(2) the economic need of the students;(3)dearth of economic, teaching and administrative resources at the institutions of higher learning; (4) quahtative differences in the education offered by the various institutions;(5) deficiencies in the contents of education as weU as in the teaching methods;(6)inefficiency in the use of scarse resources; and(7)regional inequaUty of educational opportunities.
On the assumption that hoth the demand for seats and the flow of resources into the institutions of higher learning will follow patterns similar to those observed during the last decade, a considerable gap will show between the number of persons applying for admission and the capacity of the institutions. By 1980 the number of aspirants left out could be somewhere between 11,000 and 45,000. By 1985,the figures should be much higher.
• The manpower studies demónstrate an urgent need of human resources with college education for various professional and semi-professional fíelds in the area of industrial technology and for the health services.
• The pressure of the demand for higher education will require the building of a considerable number of additional physical facilities during the coming year. However, much can be done to improve the efficiency in the use of existing facilities. More convenient daily schedules, calendars and teaching methods could substantially increase the capacity of classrooms and laboratories.
Background
The Higher Education Facilities Comprehensive Planning Study was undertaken in July 1, 1967 by the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico Commission for the Advancement of Higher Education, under Section 105(B) of the Higher Education Facilities Act of 1963,P.L.88-204, as amended hy P.L. 89-752.
Up to June 30, 1970 the Commission had delegated the coordination of the studies at the institutional level to the Office of the President of the University of Puerto Rico. Smce July 1, 1970 and in view of the fact that the Council on Higher Education of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico had hegun the preparation of a master plan for puhhc and prívate higher education in Puerto Rico,the Commission delegated to it the continuation of the studies.
This report, although coveríng the activities carried on during fiscal year 1969-70, was prepared hy the staff of the Council on Higher Education in an attempt to mtegrate the Facihties project and the comprehensive planning under way at the Council's office. Because of the same reason some aspects of the report include informatión and developments corresponding to fiseal year 1970-71. The report on the 1970-71 activities wül describe and analyze the situation until June 30, 1971.
1. ATTAINMENTS IN THE PLANNING OF HIGHER EDUCATION IN PUERTO RICO
FROM 1967 TO 1970.
This section of the report covers the period in which the study on faciUties has been under way
During 1967-70 higher educatíon in Puerto Rico has had a great expansión in terms of the size of the institutions, the opportunities they provide and the variety of gradúate and undergraduate programs they offer. This situation, combined with a dearth of resources, has attracted the attention of the directive bodies of the institutions towards the need and convenience of a comprehensive and coordinated planning for higher educatíon.
Before the acaderaic year 1969-70 the planning of university development and expansión was done by each institution separately, without an adequate coordination among them. As a consequence, development patterns which were not always the most convenient in terms of equality of opportunities, quahty of teaching and efficient use of resources and facilities, were produced. In July 1969 a joint effort was initiated to formúlate guidehnes and plans for the development of higher educatíon in its quantítative, program, economic, administrativo, student, permanent improvements, and other aspects. In a later section of this report the significance of this effort wiU be explained.
UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO
The public university, in harmony with its poUcy of making educatíonal opportunities of a high quahty, at the lowest possible cost, accessible to the residents of the Island, has estabUshed three Tcgional coUeges and has planned the establishment of another one to begin operating in August 1971.
THE REGIONAL COLLEGE AT ARECIBO, estahhshed in August 1967, has an enrollment of 1,537 students in academic courses and two-year technological courses. At present it occupies temporarily physical facüitíes which are rented, but it wiU soon occupy its own facihties which are heing constructed at a cost of $6.6 miUions.
THE CAYEY REGIONAL COLLEGE was established in August 1967 in facilities transferred to the University by the Defense Department of the United States. It began working as a two-year coUege with courses toward the Bachelor's Degree. In August 1970 it became a four-year university college with the purpose of diminishing the pressure of the demand for enrollment in the main campuses of the University. Its mission is mainly the preparation of teachers for the puhhc educational system, the concession of Bachelor's degrees in liber-al arts and the experimentation in pedagógica! methods and means. At present the college takes care of an enroUment of 1850 students and this has made it necessary to remodel the existing facilities and huild additional ones at a cost of $2.7 milhons.
THE REGIONAL COLLEGE AT PONCE began working in August 1970 with a technological-oriented program, in coordination with the Cathohc University of Puerto Rico and the Technological Institute of the Department of Education in Ponce. The College is housed in temporary facihties in land that belongs to the University of Puerto Rico. Three hundred sixty two(362)students are enrolled in it.
During this three-year period the opening of the Metropolitan Regional College I was planned and it will begin its operations in the city of Bayamón (to the west of the metropolitan arca of San Juan) in August 1971. This college will serve a triple purpose: to take care of the enrollment of students üving in one of the cities with the most rapidly growing populations in Puerto Rico: to satisfy the needs for technical education in that sector and to diminish the pressure of the demand in the Río Piedras campus which has reached the máximum enrollment of 27,000.
(It should be pointed out here that the University has plans for two other two-year colleges to be established in the metropolitan area of San Juan before 1975. These two colleges — one to be located in the east seetor and one in the central area of the metropoUtan area of San Juan will serve purposes similar to those of the Bayamón coUege. In the same way prehminary plans have been made for the establishment of a two-year college for the west región of Puerto Rico, to help the Mayagüez Campus of the University of Puerto Rico in satisfying the needs that región has).
A complex of buiidings in land owned by the University is under construction at a cost of $5.9 millions for the use of the Regional College of Humacao. This college was estabUshed before 1967 and it has been housed in different buiidings in the town. It has an enrollment of 1,967 students from the eastern región of the Island and offers general and technical courses.
As an instrument for the planning and coordination of all activity in two-year colleges the Council on Higher Education created, effective 1970-71, the Administration of Regional Colleges as an autonomous institutional unit subject to the supervisión of the University Board and the Council.
THE RIO PIEDRAS CAMPUS OF THE UNIVERSITY.OF PUERTO RICO -the largest and" oldest of the University of Puerto Rico— has reached an enrollment of 27,000 students (including 895 in extramural courses) which is considered the máximum it can take care of. For this reason university bodies are considering the desirabihty of redefining the functions of this campus and the way in which it should be developed. Till the present the most favored idea is that the Río Piedras campus should concéntrate its efforts in taking care of the last years of the Bachelor's degree and strengthening and expanding its gradúate programs.
In the last three years the Río Piedras campus has established a professional school of Architecture and gradúate programs in Commerce and Librarianship; it has been engaged in the reevaluation of its academic and administrativo programs, with the idea of modernizing them;it initiated a program to train its profcssors in educational methods and in the use of educational means and —within the permanent improvements program— built new facihties for the faculties of General Studies and Social Sciences (at the gradúate level), made a considerable expansión to the General Library, began the construction of a residential complex for students ajid finished remodeling facilities for the School of Architecture and the Faculty Center.
THE MAYAGUEZ CAMPUS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO has estabUshed institutes on Housing Construction and Transportation and has strengthened its Instituto of Marine Science. It has integi'ated in a CoUege of Agricultural Sciences the services of research, teaching and dissemination in the agricultural field; it estabUshed a School of Nursing at the Bachelor level; it instituted a Bachelor program in Commerce, and extended its gradúate and
undergraduate offerings in the arts, sciences and engineering. The permanent improvements program of the Mayagüez Campus, since 1967, includes the construction of new facilities for the Faculty of Engineering, others for Physics, Geology and the Marine Sciences; athletic facUities, student dormitories and improvements to the Student Center and administrative facüities. In the academic arca it is in the process of revising the engineering curriculum in order to shorten the professional careers from 5 to 4 years. This campus has an enroUment of 8,506 students.
THE MEDICAL SCIENCES CAMPUS established formally a Faculty of Preventive Medicine and Pubüc Health and,within it, a School of Nurses and Physical Therapy and Speech and Audiology Therapy, among others. During the next academic year the Campus will occupy new facihties which have been under construction since 1967 at a cost of $21.4 milhons. The facilities are located in the grounds of the Medical Center of Puerto Rico where it will more easily intégrate its functions with those of the medical and hospital services of the Center .This Campus has an enroUment of 1,383 students.
It should be pointed out here that tbe University of Puerto Rico is in the process of formulating a 4-year financing program. That program, as it has heen eonceived in its preliminary stages, is hased upon a work, expansión and development plan which has the hasic elements of a master plan —in its academic, student, institutional poUey, administrativo, institutional structure and physical faeiUties development aspects.
CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO
The Catholic University whose main campus is at Ponce,recently inaugurated new physical facihties for the Lihrary and Administration. At present it is huilding facihties for the Faculty pf Edueation.
It is estimated that with tliese new facilities the Catholie University will he ahle to augment considerahly its enroUment in that campus during a numher of years, without needing new huildings for academie purposes.
As an element of coordinated planning of puhüe and private higher edueation the Cathohc University is in the proeess of revising its expansión poliey hy means of regional colleges. When it hegan this process the Catliolic University had, in addition to its maiñ campus, six regional centers. These are academically tied to the main campus hut economically they are autonomous. The new mstitutional poücy is oriented towards a rq^ionsideration of the convenience of having the Catholic University sponsoring each one of these regional activities. These determinations of an expansión poliey are evident in the ohjectives of concentrating in the improvement of the quality of teaching as well as in efficiency in the use of resource'S.
At present the Catholic University has an enrollment of 7,157 students in its main campus and its centers.
INTER-AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO
The Inter-American University has had an impressive increase in the size of its enrollment during the past three years: it has grown from 7,588 in 1967-68 to 10,001 in 1970-71. The main eampus at San Germán, whose enrollment has been decreasing, had an inerease in the autumn of 1970: from 1,689 in 1969-70 to 1,733 in 1970-71.
The administration considers that this new tendency of increase wiU continué in the future.
On one hand, plans of the Planning Board fór the development of the southwest of Puerto Rico are relying on a considerable contrihution of the Inter-American University in the prepara ción of the human resources that the regional development will need. On the other hand, the Inter-American University is preparing a strategy to attract an inereasing number of students. It ineludes an improvement of the quality of teaching by means of a raise in the teachers'salaries, the improvement of the academic preparation of the teaching personnel, the exchange of professors with o'ther university institutions, the development of audiovisual resources and the use of educational means and faeUities in cooperation with other institutions. This eampus can hold a much larger enrollment than it now has.
The Hato Rey Campus(San Juan) has grown from 2,399 students in 1967-68 to 2,863 in 1970-71. This increase has brought about a serious prohlem in regards to physical space. The facihties used are not convenienüy located,they are not large enough and they do not belong to the institution. The space prohlem wiR soon be solved with the building of new facilities in a 50-acre farm the University bought in the outskirts of San Juan.
The quantitative growth of the Inter-American University has also been consistent in nine centers it has around the Island. Perhaps in subsequent stages of the work for the eomprehensive planning of higher education the expansión pattern of the Inter-American University should be examined.
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF THE SACRED HEART
This educational institution, since its begirming, was oriented toward the provisión of higher education-within a rehgious framework —to young ladies of middle and high class social and economic position. By the end of the academic year 1969-70 the College faced economic and administrative difficulties. This crisis, which almost caused the disappearance of the CoUege, was surpassed by the action of the college community and the outside community which saved the College and transformed it into a different institution. The rehgious administration gave way to a lay one; in the night studies of 1970-71 -as an initial step- students of both sexes were admitted; a Júnior CoUege División with academic and vocational offerings was created, also for young people of both sexes;the financial aid program was expanded in order to make it possible for young persons of low income famiUes to enroll at the College; admission standards were UberaUzed so as to begin giving the institution a character of service for the whole community.
As soon as it was revitaUzed in that ínanner a more rapid increase in enrollment was noticed. In preceding years enrollment had increased at a rate of an average of 50 students a year and in the first year after the changes were implemented there was an increase of 250' students, (The enrollment at present is 800 students). Furthermore, enrollment projections, which had been estimated at 1,500 for 1974-75,have doubled to 3,000 for the same year.
In regards to phyácal facihties the situation of the CoUege is satisfactory and it will continué to be so in the near ftiture. In 1969-70 a buUding for the General Library was inaugurated. In it there are very modem audiovisual resources. Until that year only 25 percent of the potential capacity of the CoUege was being used. With the present rate of increase in enroUment the physical facihties wiU soon be used more efficiently.
REPORT ON ACTIVITIES FOR THE PROJECT
HIGHER EDUCATION FACILITIES COMPREHENSIVE PLANNING STUDY
During fiscal year 1969-70 the Commission for the Development of Higher Education of Puerto Rico received fiom the Department of Health, Education and Welfare of the United States an appropriation of $29,315.00 ,to carry on the following activities:
'a) Adoption of a uniform Manual of Statistics for all Higher Education Institutions in Puerto Rico.
b) Detailed enrollment data for Commonwealth and non-Commonwealth students for fuU-time and part-time and full-time-equivalent.
c) Complete present insufficient data to determine Puerto Rico residents pursuing coUege training outside of Puerto Rico as well as non-Puerto Ricans licensed to practico within Puerto Rico.
d) Correlate material of the manpower studies that relate to Educational Planning.
e) Refinement of projections for college age population for 1970, 1975, 1980 and 1985 for Puerto Rico by municipality to be coordinated with the Puerto Rico Planning Board with special reference to external and internal migration.
f) Update the physical inventory for fiscal year 1969-70 as well as projected physical plant needs." 1
This part of the report shows how and to what extent these activities were carried out. The Comprehensivo Planning Task Forcé, author of this report on the activities carried on under the previous agreement, wants to express, through, its points of view on the scope these works should have and the most fruitful way of carrying them on.
The Task Forcé understands that the establishment of an information system containing all the elements which are indispensable for a coordinated planning should satisfy all the other
Taken verbatim from the agreement made June 30, 1969, between the President of the Commonwealth Commission for the Advancement of Higher Education and the President of the University of Puerto Rico.
Ítems in the agreement which are only elements of an information system, some of which are indispensable to the system in its initial stages while others can be postponed for other stages. Thus, witbin this focus,the present report will deal with the information system —its ohjectives, contents, work plan— and as the suhject is developed, information related to each^of the suhtopics in the rest of the agreement will he added. In the same way the information system topic win he developed within the framework of the main ohjective of formulating development plans for higher education in Puerto Rico.
It should he pointed out here that the new agreement hetween the Commonwealth Commission and the Council on Higher Education summarizes the assignment as follows: (1) preparation of the Statistics Handhook (the Task Forcé will not limit itself to the handhook;it will also estahlish the information system) and as part of that (2) update and refine the inventory and analysis of the use of facihties and (3)updating of the enrollment data.
1. COMPREHENSIVE INFORMATION SYSTEM ON PUBLIC AND PRIVATE HIGHER EDUCATION IN PUERTO RICO
The information system is considered one of the hasic instruments for rational planning. As a consequence the design of such a system —including determination of contents hy stages o¡ development, the setting up of functioning mechanisms and the disposition of analysis techniques— should respond to the planning program it wiU serve.
The planning program descrihed in preceding parts of this report aspires to formúlate development plans for higher education in all its essential aspects students, faculty, teaching programs, administration, finances, facilities, regional distrihution, interinstitutional coordination, among others. Planning works should take into consideration: population of university age, the Country's economic situation, the economic situation of students, puhlic poücy on education, standards of educational institutions, the cost of education,the soorces of economic resources, physical facihties, the preferences of society and individuáis, the needs of social and economic development of the Country, availahihty of educational opportunities.and options in accredited and non-accredited post-secondary institutions, in university and non university level institutions and in the pre-university levels, etc.
In other words, development plans for higher education should he articulated with the development of the Country in every aspect and particularly with the educational system, puhhc and prívate, in all its levels.
The information system should serve those purposes. The magnitude of the system, as derived from its ohjectives,forces its estahlishment in a computar system already in operation in
educational institutions. The magnitude itself suggests the convenience of beginning the establishment of the system by stages, beginning with the indispensable contents and including later on information needed for a more refined analysis.
PRESENT STATUS OF THE WORK
1. STATISTICS HANDBOOK
— In'the preparation for the establishment of an integrated system of educational statisties, work has been done in various fronts and witb different approaches which later will have to be harmonized according to convenience and feasibility.
On the one hand, a mechanized central system must be designed to which information on the daily functioning of educational and auxiliary programs will flow. This would have the advantage of permitting the analysis of eorrelations between any set of variables in the system. Its aspects of administrativo feasibility and cost sbould be examined, though.
Anotber approaeh has been the design of a system based on reporting. Tbis type of system would depend on each educational institution answering a series of questionnaires of statistical summaries on the different information elements and have them sent to a computer eenter. The greatest diffículty in a system of this type would be the amount of forms each institution would have to fUl. This could have negativo implication in the success of the system, as well as in its costs, synchronization difficulties and administrative problems.
It is possible that the system which is finally adopted might be a reasonable combination of both methods.
There are already interinstitutional agreements in regards to the definition of a number of statistical terms and the design of a series of common forms. This part of the work w^l be reexamined during 1970-71, on the basis of the type of information system whieh is finally adopted for Puerto Rico. This is why data and specific samples on these aspects of the information sy.stem will be included in the report eorresponding to fiscal year 1970-71. The goal is to have the system working in the autumn of 1971. There are speeialized inter-institutional committees, duly advised by technicians form tbe University of Puerto Rico, designing and formulating methodology for information sub-systems on admission, physical facihties and enrollment.
There are already agreements of cooperation with the Department of Education for the articulation of the information system for higher education and the system eorresponding to pre-university education.
Simultaneously with Ihese coordinated efforts, individual institutions have made progresa in their inlemal staHstieal systems. For example, the Río Piedras canrpus of the University of Puerto Rico produeed and is implenrenting electronically a statistics handbook for its own needs. This work has served as a model for the inter-university project. The Central AdministraHon of the University of Puerto Rico is in the process of designing and cstablishing a uniform systcm for aU the institutional units. In the sanre way the othcr institutions are in the . . on administrative matters, student, facilities and others. process of mechanizing their recoros un The integrated inter-university system will harmonice all these efforts and attainments.
2. UNIVERSITY AGE POPUUATION AND PROJECTION — The 1970 census points out that in April (1970)Puerto Rico had a population of 2,712,000 inhahitants. Projeetions nrade by the Planning Board of Puerto Rico show that the total population will inercase to 3,287,000 by 1975,to 3,643,000 by 1980 and to 4,024,000 by 1985.
On the basis of estimates the Planning Board had previously made -and which the Task Forcé of the Council on Higher Education adjusted to the 1970 census figures, and fitted to denrographic patterns observed- it nray be predicted that the 18-21 years oíd population wiU tend to stabUiae itsclf around 220,000 inhahitants during the five-year period 1970-75. This is cxplained by the fact that most of this population sector corresponda to births which occurred during the Korean Confhct.
This circunrslance nright favor the adcquate development of institutions on higher education in several ways. With enough aid, those institutions could, as a whole, inerease . .. . o w „„rtípÍnation in university enrollment; or they could assign substantially the rate of population participaiion m u j & nrorc resources lo the improvenrent of the quality of teaching; or they could accumulate re«,urces to takc care of the denrand which is expected in the two subsequent five-year periods. (It is e.st¡mated tbay by 1980 the university age population (18-21) wiU have increased to 244,000 inhahitants and to 262,000 by 1985).
3. HIGHER EDUCATION ENROLLMENT
a PARTICIPATION COEFFICIENTS — An analysis of the composition by age of the total enroUment of the institutions of higher learning in Puerto Rico in 1969-70 shows that three out of five students are in the 18-21 age group. Thus,it is considered adequate to estimate the ratio of total enroUment to population taking that age group as reference.
In the five-year period 1965-1970 the coefficient of participation (enroUment FTE/population 18-21) increased from 17.30 percent to 22.02 percent. These rates of
participation have been projected using two assumptions of tendencies. The fírst one assumes grpwth in a straight line; the second one assumes an ascending parabolic curve. Judging from past experiences the second projection method seems to conform best to the Puerto Rican reality.
By using the linear projection the co.efficient increases from 22.02 percent in 1970 to 31.17 percent in 1975, to 38.37 percent in 1980 and to 45.57 in 1985. With the progressive curve projection the estimated coeffieient are 35.67 percent for 1975; 50.27 percent for 1980 and 68.22 percent for 1985.
h. ENROLLMENT PROJECTIONS
In terms of total enrollment (head-count) and on the hasis that 70 percent of the students will study full time and 30 percent will study half the time (which is justifíed hy real proportíons), the ünear projection means an enrollment increase from 57,000 students in 1970 to 80,000 in 1975, to 110,000 in 1980, and to 140,000 in 1985. The progressive curve projection means mercases from 57,000 in 1970 to 92,000 in 1975,to 144,000 in 1980, and to 210,000 in 1985.
As demonstrated hy the methodology which has heen explained,these two projections of university enroUment are the result of the analysis of mathematical tendencies and correlations. The adequaey of those figures should now he examined on the hght of the prohlems, expectancies and posihilities of the Puerto Rican society.
It is considered desirahle that the higher education functions include attention to idleness and unemployment prohlems among the younger population. These prohlems reach considerable proportions in Puerto Rico. Together with attention to these social prohlems, higher education should aspire to supply the country with the educated manpower required hy the continuous economic, social and cultural development of the Island
The evaluation of the projected' enrollment figures, in reference to the.solution of prohlems arising from idleness and unemployment, has heen done on the hasis of recent information puhlished hy the Planning Board and the Labor Department of Puerto Rico on employment and school level of the young population. The conclusión is that hoth enrollment projections are satisfactory to propitiate the solution to those prohlems. The linear projection would attain it in ten years and the progressive projection in a quinquennium.
In regards to the university function of preparing human resources for the development of the country, there are several important considerations. First, it wiÜ he necessary to have a
complete picture of the present and future demand for human resources, on the basis of a reasonably olear statement of the possible pattems of social, cultural and economic growth. Second, a method will have to be found for the program arrangements of the institutions of higher learning in relation to the human resources needs. The adequacy of the enrollment projections in satisfying the demand for human resources will depend on the success of those two tasks.
The aspect of possibilities must still be considered, that is, to what extent the economic situation of educational institutions, families and the Country in general will permit the accommodation of students in the numbers shown by the projections. The analysis of this fundamental aspect was done by means of the correlation between the total university enrollment and the official historial data on net income in Puerto Rico. Extrapolation of the correlation shows that the country^s economy will not be able to hold, without additional outside help, in the institutions on higher learning,the number of students'which have been estimated, not even that number estimated in the more conservative prójection. The foUowing figures show the gap that might exist between the outside help, in the institutions on higher learning, the number of students enrollment that must be taken care of within the foreseen possibilities and the demand shown by the two projections.
Enrollment Projections(Head—Count)
Summarizing, the projection based upon economic possibilities (column 1) shows the number of students that will be able to have access to higher education in the next three five-year periods, if the resources flowing from all sources to institutions of higher education continué to flow in the same proportion they are doing so at present. At the end of 15 years, as estimated in the most conservative projection, 21,000 students would still be unattended if there are not additional funds. According to the highest projection 91,000 students would be left out.
Based on population (linear)
Based on net income
Population 18-21
Enrollment (Based on net income)
Enrollment (Based on jiopulation-Linear projectíon of coefficient)
POPULATION 18 ■ 21 AND ENROLLMEM IN HIGHER EDUCATION
It is generaUy recognized that higher education should contribute to the attainment of a series of human and social aspirations which are summed up in the idea of a full enjoyment of life. This hroad ohjective includes; personality development, respect for human dignity and equality, understanding of the democratic way of life and devotion to it, understanding of the human race through cultural enrichment, attainment of a satisfying civilization.
In order to contrihute to the attainment of those goals, education should help first in the accomplishment of other suhordinate goals without which it is impossihle to enjoy a satisfactory life: training of individuáis so that they are ahle to satisfy their needs and serve society; the advancement of knowledge and development of technology to propitiate the economic growth that may provide means of life to the individual and his family; in fact,the rehef of social and economic prohlems that are derived from lack of educational opportunities.
The efficacy of higher education in the attainment of these ohjectives in modem democracy assumes the offer of a reasonahle equality of opporturftties, in numher as well as in quaüty, and enough diversity to give the individual a reasonahle freedom of cholee. The present situation in Puerto Rico is far apart from what could he considered reasonahle in regard to equality of opportunities. The studies that have heen carried out point out that the regional approach of educational services may improve considerahly the unhalance of opportunities.
Unhalances in the regions are remarkahle and follow geographic patterns that are so clear that they permit to point out their probable causes. At an extreme of the scale one fínds the metropolitan and coast areas; at the other end one fínds the central,mountainous región. Between the first and the second zones there are differences in opportunities which are, on the average, in a proportion of 2:1. Through statistical methods it is estahlished that there are three factors that, as a whole, determine educational opportunities at a regional and local level. The first factor is, of course, the level of pre-university education opportunities. The second one is the comparative economic situation among the regions. The third one is the distance to the centers of higher education.
To diminish the differences in the level of opportunities of higher education hetween zones there are several alternatives of possihle action. Fundarnentally, the need to continué the efforts to equalize economic opportunities is evident. At an early stage, it is also necessary to
strengthen school retentíon in the elementary and secondary levels in areas that participate to a lesser degree in higher education. In respect to the centers of higher education the most practical altematives would be:
a. To strengthen and expand the existing centers and provide transportation facilities and economie aid to the residents of distant, less favored areas. A special incentive would be the offering of courses which interest the people livlng in nearby areas, in harmony with their occupational needs.
b. To establish a series of technological colleges in places which are accessible to the residents of municipalities which are not adequately served by higher education.
Whatever strategy might be adopted to provide reasonably equal opportunities of post-secondary education in the different regions of the Island, it is advisable that a se ries of principies and criteria that tend to promote intensive and efficient use of the scarce resources available be followed. First, the new centers should be established in the centers of population gravitation in the regions or sub-regions. In the second place, unnecessary competition among different educational institutions should be avoided, saving, as far as possible, the precept.of diversification of offerings. At the institutional level it is convenient to be careful that the expansión on the basis of establishing new centers take place in an articulated way and with due attention given to planning. Coordination, cooperation and articulation among the institutions serving the same región are indispensable. In another aspect, it is fundamental that the programming of offerings be relevant to the occupational and other needs of the regions.
In more advanced stages in the formulation of the comprehensive plan for the development of higher education specific recommendations will be made on the location, nature and size of new university centers. Recommendations will also be made for the improvement of the institutions which already exist.
MUNICIPALITIES WITH THE LOWEST ECONOMIC INDEX
(Aggregate weigíited index of: per capita income; family income; employment in growth industries; automobile, refrigerator and televisión set ownership; and number of welfare benefíciaries) OCEANO
GRADUATION INDEX
MUNICIPALITIES WITH THE LOWEST HIGH SCHOOL
Oíd Inhabitants)
(Secondary School Diplomas to 18 years
MUNICIPALITIES WITH THE LOWEST HIGHER EDUCATION ENROLLMENT INDEX
(First-year enroUment to 18 years Oíd Inhabitants)
ATLANTICO
In 1969 the staff of the Council on Higher Education made an inventory of the status of different partial studies on the needs of human,resources with university education in Puerto Rico. Resides compiling the information available in different public agencies, contact was made with the directors of several government agencies and about 30 managers of large private enterprises located in different regions and wbicb represent tbe economic activity of Puerto Rico.
Tbe inventory bad two purposes: to identify areas of interest for institutions of higber learning in wbicb more detailed studies which may be used as a basis to plan teacbing programs, in relation witb tbe Country's need should be made and to provide useful information to guide the programming of technological courses in the regional colleges of the University of Puerto Rico and the other institutions of higher education, so they may serve the regions according to their needs.
The foliowing conclusions are derived from a study of the inventory:
1. First of all, a general remark. It is considered that the dearth of professionals in any specialized field may be relieved considerably if enougb tecbnologists in the same specialty are prepared. The reason is that, withouth the necessary help, professionals have to dedícate time and efforts to subprofessional tasks. The technologist is trained rapidly; the training of the professional requires more time. In the fíeld of engineering it has been suggested that Puerto Rico should have two technologists for each professional.
2. Prepared personnel is urgently needed to provide private and public health services. A study made for the Health Department by Booz, Alien and Hamilton points out that in order to reach reasonable standards of service for the population, it will be neces.saTy lo expand considerably the medical and pararnedical teacbing programs. The report aiso indicates that if the tendencies observed in 1967 continué, by 197.5 there would be a déficit of almost one fourth of the human resources needed.
3. In the industrial and business fields a growing demand and scarcity is foreseen in the following major fields oí study:
a. Engineers, especially chemical, electrical (electronics) and mechanical engineers.
b. Professional cliemists.
c. Accountants with enough preparation in tbe accounting systems of private enterprises.
d. Supervisors at the intermedíate level, with a general knowledge about management, production methods, labor relations and human relations.
e. BiUngual secretarles (Engllsh and Spanish) who may take dictation in botb languages.
f. Technologists and assistants of civil, chemical, mechanical and electronic engineering and instrumentalists.
4.In the agricultural field the Agronomists College and the Agricultural Credit Corporation have pointed out the following urgencies:
a. The strengthening of the career in the science of agriculture with emphasis in the management of agro-industrial enterprises and offering specializations in agriculture credit, mechanization, minor veterinary, fishing and floriculture. It has heen estirnated that the field of agriculture could use ahout 200 agronomists right away and 20 more in the next five years.
h. Organization of a two-year university course on dairy management, including techniques of general management, agriculture equipment, soils, grass rotation and production methods. It has heen estirnated that cattle regions might require at present ahout 400 dairy managers and ahout 300 more in the next fíve years.
c. The offering of a two-year university course on agricultural prácticos, including suhjects on mechanization, irrigation equipment and general knowledge on agriculture.-It is estimated that there would he an immediate demand for ahout 600 persons with this preparation and for 200 more in the next fíve years.
5. At the regional level the following demands have heen pointed out:
a. San Juan, Caguas, Vega Baja:- civil teclinology, chemical technology accounting, land surveying, industrial supervisión, secretaria! courses.
h. Ponce: chemical technology, operation of chemical plants, electronic technology.
c.
d. e.
mechanical technology, instrumentalist technology, agricultural practices, supervisión of industries, secretarial courses.
Mayagüez: sales promotion, agricultural practices, supervisión of industries.
Arceibo: aceounting, chemical technology, electronic technology mechanical technology, dairy management, agricultural practices, supervisión of industries, secretarial courses.
Guayama, Humacao, Fajardo: chemical technology, electronic technology, mechanical technology, instrumentalists, dairy management, agricultural practices, supervisión of industries.
While this work was being carried on,efforts were made to know the inclination of private and pubüc institutions to cooperate with the University of Puerto Rico in the offering of short careers. There is, in general, interest in eontributing with use of facilities and equipment, in some cases, and in other cases with scholarships and other aids to students, consultantships, professors, etc. These possibilities must be explored, mainly in regards to public corporations and the larger private enterprises.
The tables in the following pages offer data on the results of the inventory on human resources needs in Puerto Rico and its regions.
Considering the needs the different regions have, in August 1970 the University of Puerto Rico made a plan for the gradual establishment of technological courses in its two year colleges untU 1974r75. The courses programmed for each región are:
METROPOLITAN AREA OF SAN JUAN
Aceounting
Commereial Management
Secretarial Science
Education (Normal)
Industrial Management
Architectural Drawing
Civil Construction
Electronics
Refrigeration
Instrumentalist
Motor Vehicles
Chemistry
Mechanical Technology
Computer Programming
iSíursing
•Technical Drawing
Hotel Management
EASTERN REGION (HUMACAO)
Technical Drawing
Civil Construction
Architectural Drawing
NORTH REGION(ARECIBO)
Technical Drawing
Civil Construction
Architectural Drawing
Road Construction
SOUTHERN REGION(PONCE)
Accounting
Commercial Management
Architectural Drawing
Civil Construction
Industrial Management
Computer Programming
Refrigeration and Air
Conditioning
Nursing
WESTERN REGION(MAYAGUEZ-AGUADILLA)
Accounting
Commercial Management
Secretarial Science
Computer Programming
Electronics
Civil Construction
Architectural Drawing
Electronics
Instrurnentalist
Chemistry
Electronics
Instrumentalist
Electricity
Secretarial Science
Chemistry
Physical Therapy
Occupational Therapy
Electronics
Mechanical Technology
Instrumentalist
Instrumentalist
Nursing
Industrial Management
Mechanical Technology
Chemistry
Refrigeration
Estimates of Total Needs and Déficit for Puerto Rico in Health Categories: 1975(a)
(a) Study by Booz, Alien and Hatnilton for tbe Health Department of Puerto Rico — June 1967.
(1) Assumes tbe continuation of tbe teaching programs which existed in 1967 and tbose foibseen at tbe time.
(2) Superávit of 685. Includes all paramedical categories requiring at least a university 4 - year course.
(3) Includes all paramedical categories requiring at least one year of advanced formal training, but less than an academic degree.
Professions and Subprofessions of Intense and Difficult Recruitment for the Prívate Enterprise in Puerto Rico, by Regions
June 1969
BACHELOR DEGREES
Seience(1)
SHORTCAREERS
Seience
Management(1) Agricultural Practices(1)
(1) The Agronomist College estimates that agriculture in Puerto Rico has a déficit of ahout 200 agroiioinists, 400 dairy managers and 600 agricultural practitioners and that in the next 5 yea'rs there will be an additional demand for 200 agronomists, 300 dairy managers and 200 agricultural practicationers.
San Juan Caguas
Vega Baja Ponce Mayaguez Arecibo
Guayama Humacao Fajardo
Professional and Technological Fields of Diffícult Recruitment in Four Public Corporations in Puerto Rico May 1969 Aqueduct
BACHELOR DEGREES
Civil Engineering
Eléctrica! Engineering
Chemical Engineering
Electronic Programming
Accounting
TECHNOLOGICAL COURSES
Surveying
Civil Technology
Electronic Technology
Statistics from the Personnel Office of the Government of Puerto Rico.
Professions and Sub-professions of Difficult Recruitment
According to the Employment Service of Puerto Rico, by Regions May 1969
BACHELOR DEGREES
Aguadilla Mayaguez Ponce Guayama Humacao Caguas
The data in this section of the report refer to the accredited institutions of higher learning in Puerto Rico, incliiding their campusas and regional collcgcs. The data cxcludcs the regional colleges of the Catholic University, as this institution is going through the process of reconsidering the convenience of continuing giving its support and accreditation to its regional centers.
In the second semester of aeademic year 1970-71 the colleges and universities in Puerto Rico were using a gross arca of about 4,894,040 square feet. This includes all uses of the arca except for students dormitories. The corresponding figure in terms of assignable net arca is 3,313,188 square feet, that is, 67 pefcent of the gross arca.
The total use of the existing facilities is distrihuted as follows: classrooms, 15 percent; lahoratories, 12 percent; offices, 19 percent;study arcas, 12 percent; housing(not for students), 12 percent; other uses (special, general, supporting, and health serviees), 22 percent; unassigned space,8 percent.
As will be shown later, the existing facilities, as a whole, are insufficient and, in many cases, inadequate to take care of the present enrollment. Consequently, a considerable number of additional buildings must be provided. It is considered, though, that under the circumstances it is still possible to utilize more intensively the existing classrooms and laboratorios.
Traditionally there has been a tendency to use classrooms 44 hours a week during the daytime and a few hours at night at a very low intensity. Even during the daytime the intensity of use varies notably from period to period, from day to day, and from institution to institution.
For this report three reasonable alternatives in regards to the intensivo use of schedule, classrooms and student stations have been analyzed. Taking into eonsideratibn only the main campusos of all the institutions, except Medical Sciences, under these three alternatives of use of time and space from 10,000 tol2,000additional students would be taken care of. This wouldbe equivalent to an enrollment increase of approximately 30 percent. Of course, the adoption of this way of functioning would require a very precise programming of courses in relation to schedules and classrooms. It would demand great sacrifices on the part of students, professors and administrativo personnel. Most of all, a substantial increase in the appropriations for operating costs would be needed.
The need for additional operating costs, forces one to consider the feasibility of the alternatives mentioned for the intensivo use of facilities. Probably any process in that direction will have to come gradually.
In spite of these remarles the high costs of new buíMings needed to take care of the increasing demand for educational opportunities exacts a plannification in terms of modérate standards in regard to the space that should be provided to serve the students in an adequate way.
The American Council on Education suggests the standard of 125 square feet of gross non-residence space for each full time student (FTE). Because of the reasons already expressed the estimates of necessary spaee in this report are based on a standard of 100 square feet per student.
a) 1970 NEEDS
The present situation regarding available space varies among institutions. The UNIVERSTIY OF PUERTO RICO began in 1967-68 an extensive program of permanent improvéments which will last till 1974-75. Tbe program includes all types of facilities for all the institutional units. The total cost wiU be $110 millions of which the University of Puerto Rico wiU contribute $90 millions from issue of bonds and the Federal Government will contribute $20 millions. Works at a cost of $29 millions bave already been finished; tbere is construction work for the amount of $55 millions and project pending for the amount of $26 millions
Through this permanent improvements program the needed facilities to take care of the projected enrollment will be provided for the existing colleges and campuses until 1975 and in some aspects, until later years. From 1975 on it will be necessary to continué the bulding of more facilities for the additional enrollment of subsequent years. The appendixes include a summary of the construction program of the University of Puerto Rico.
Estimates computed for this report show that according to the indicated standards at present the University of Puerto Rico has quantitative and qualitative deficiencies in physical facilities for an amount of $11.7 miUions.
The INTER-AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO has two main campuses and seven regional colleges. Its main campus at San Germán has facilities which are adequate and enough to take care of an enrollment twice as big as the one it now has. By contrast,facilities in its Hato Rey campus and in all its regional colleges are inadequate,insufficient and they are not owned by the institution (except for the regional coliege at Barranquitas).
The construction needs for the Inter-American University are calculated in about 423 000 square feet. In terms of resources it needs $16.1 millions to take care of the 1970-71 enrollment.
The CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO has its own facilities in its main campus in Ponce which are enough to take care of its 1970-71 enrollment. Futura requirements will depend on the decisión regarding the continued support or discontinuation of the regional centers. Nevertheless, it is estimated that it needs at present $1.7 millions for possible improvements to the existing facilities at Ponce.
Facilities of the UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF THE áÁCRED HEART are adequate and it can take care of three times the enrollment it has at present. For possible improvements, though, about $656,000 are needed.
PUERTO RICO JUNIOR COLLEGE has great needs of space in its coUeges of Río Piedras and Caguas. To be able to comply with the standard of space per student it would have to provide about 256,000 square feet of new facilities and improve the ones it has at a cost of $8.8 milUons.
Summarizing, all the institutions of higher learning in Puerto Rico would need to invest $39 millions in order to take care under reasonable standards, of the August 1970 enrollment.
b. 1975 AND 1980 NEEDS
In another section of this report altérnate projections of higher education enrollment until 1985 are presented. There are not yet definite projections for all the institution of higher learning, though, but only for the University of Puerto Rico until 1985,for the Puerto Rico Júnior College until 1975 and for the University College of the Sacred Heart until 1975. For this reason the estimates of fínancial resources needed for the construction of physical facilities for 1975 and 1980 have been prepared as a whole, with the present inventory as a basis and in reference to the projections of total enrollment of higher education. The cost estimates are based on each one of the three alternatives of enrollment projections: a low projection on the basis of a correlation between enrollment and net income; an intermedíate projection based on the linear projection of enrollment coefficients to university age population and a máximum projection on the basis of a paraboüc projection of said coefficients.
Cost estimates include two items: construction cost of new facilities to take care of the increase in enrollment that will occur in the five-year period and the accumulated cost of the normal replacement of structures. This last item is estimated at a rate of 2 percent annually of the existing area. Unitary construction costs are adjusted at a rate of 5 percent of annual increase.
The table below summarizes the total funds needed for the 1975-1980 period under the three alternatives of enrollment projections.
APPENDIX
Comonwealth of Puerto Rico Civil Non-Institutional Population 18 to 21 years oíd Estimates for the Period 1966-1985
POPULATION 202,400 207,900 212,700 217,100 220,000 221,000 221,000 221,000 220,000 219,000 218,000 219,000 224,000 233,000 244,000 253,000 258,000 261,000 262,000 262,000
Prepared by the Task Forcé for Comprehensive Planning — Cuncil on Higher Education — March 1971 — Based on the 1970 Censas figures and Puerto Rico Planning Board estimates.
Participation Rates
(FTE Enrollment in Higher Educatíon/Population 18-21 years oíd)
Estimates for the Period 1966-1985
Population 18-21 Years Oíd and Enrollment in Higher Education Eslimates for the Period 1966-1985
Preparad by the Task Forcé for Comprehensive Planning — Council on Higher Education — March 1971.
Enrolled Students in Higher Education Correlative to Population 18-21 Years Oíd and to the Net Income of Puerto Rico Estímales for the Period 1966-1985
(Correlative to Net Income)
Prepared by the Task Forcé for Comprehensive Planning — Council on Higher Education — March, 1971 — Net income estimates, current prices, by the Puerto Rico Planning Board were used.
Rates of Students Enrolled in Higher Educatíon
Correlatíve to Populatíon 18-21 Years Oíd and to the Net Income of Puerto Rico
Estímates for the Period 1966 — 1985
Coefficients
Coefficients
Students Enrolled in Colleges and Universities of Puerto Rico
(1) Doeg not include student donnitories. (2) Includeg gpecial use, general use, supporting, and medical care facilities.
(1) Does not include student dormitoríes. (2) Includes special use, general use,supportíng, and medical care facilities.
(1) Two part-time students equal to one full-time student.
(2) The general standard of 125 gross square feet per FIE student recommended by the American Council on Education is reduced to 100 square feet, on Üie assumption that the existing facilitíes can be used at a higher intensity by uicreasing the nuinber of bours of daily use and tliru a precise programming.
(3) Constructíou costs do not include the cost of land neither Üie building of new student dormitories. Por tlie main campuses costs are estímated at S33 per square foot; for regional colleges, at S20(modular coustructiou).
(4) Estímated at 10 percent of the existing gross area owned by the institutíon.
(a) Iiicludes the construction of anotber 18,671 square feet now being rented.
(b) The Medical Science Campus will move during 1972 to new facilitíes whicb are near completion.
(c) New facilitíes are under construction for botli Üie Humacao and Arecibo regional colleges.
(d) Plans are under way for the construction of new facilitíes at a different site for the Hato Rey Campus of tlie Inter-American University. Iii Üiis case, as well as m those of the regional colleges of Inter-American University which occupy rented space only, Üie cost was calculated on the base of the total FIE enrollment.
Resides tlie San Germán Campus, the only other institutíonal unit of lAU that occupies its own facilitíes is tlie Barranquitas Regional CoUege.
(1) Enrollment estímate arising from the projectíon eorrelated to the net income of Puerto Rico.
(2) Enrollment estímate arising from the linear projectíon of the participation rates.
(3) Enrollment estímate arising from the parabolic projectíon of the participation rates.
(4) On the basis of 100 gross sq. ft per FTE student.
(5) On the assumption that the facilities needs estimated for 1970-71 are totally met before 1975.'
(6) An annual increase of 5 percent in construction costs is assumed. So, an average cost of $34 per ^ gross foot is applied.
(7) Replacement costs are calculated on the basis of 2 percent of the existing facilities per vear.
Commonwealth of Puerto Rico
Estimated Facilities Needs of Colleges and Universities
Total Enrollment(FTE)
Required Gross Area (Sq. Ft)
Existing Gross Area(Sq. Ft.)
Déficit, Gross Area(Sq. Ft)
Estimated Construction Cost
Accumulated Normal R¿eplacement Cost
Total Cost
$22,753,000
$322,407.000
(1) Enrollment estímate arising from tlie projection correlated to the net income of Puerto Rico.
(2) Enrollment estímate arising from tlie linear projection of the participation rates.
(3) Enrollment estímate arising from the parabolic projection of tlie participation rates.
(4) On the basis of 100 sq. ft. per FTE student.
(5) On the asumption that the facilitires needs estimated for 1970-71 and for 1975 are totally met before 1980.
(6) An annual increase of 5 percent in construction costs is assumed. So, aii average cost of $43 per gross square foot is applied.
(7) Replacement costs are calculated on the basis of 2 percent of the existing facilities per year.
Institutional
Río Piedras Catnpus
Mayagüez Campus
Medical Sciences Campus
Cayey University College
Administration of Regional CoUeges
Arecibo Regional College
Humacao Regional College
Ponce and Bayamon Regional Colleges
Central Administration
Approved by the Council on Higher Education Until February 1971
2,565,990 5,659,140 5,659,140 561,233 98,974 302,259 160,000 90,180,972
THE COMMONWEALTH COMMISSION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF HIGHER EDUCATION AND THE UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO
1- This agreement made as of the 30th day of June of the year 1969 by and between the Commonwealth'Commission for the Advancement of Higher Education, hereinafter caUed the Commission, represented by its President, acting under authorization of Executive Order No. 905 of February 20, 1964, as amended by Executive Order No. 1413, dated December 12, 1968, and the University of Puerto Rico, hereinafter called the University, represented by its President, acting under authorization of Act No. 1 of January 20, 1966 of the laws of Puerto Rico.
2. This Commission agrees to continué to employ the University to perform comprehensive facihties planning studies to determine the construction needs of institutions of higher education in Puerto Rico. The University wUl undertake these studies in a consortium arrangement with all of the other accredited institutions of higher learning in Puerto Rico. Each of these institutions will directly participate and contrihute to the comprehensive facilities planning. The studies wiU include:
a) .Adoption of a uniform Manual of Statistics for all Higher Education Institutions in Puerto Rico.
h) Detailed enroUment data for Commonwealth and non Commonwealth students for full-time and part-time equivalent.
c) Complete present insufficient data to determine Puerto Rico residents pursuing college training outside of Puerto Rico as well as non Puerto Ricans hcensed to practice with Puerto Rico.
d) Correlate material of the manpower studies that relate to Educational Planning.
e) Refinement of projections for College Age Population for 1970,1975,1980,1985 for Puerto Rico by municipahty, to he coordinated with the Puerto Rico Planning Board with special reference to external and internal migration.
f) Update the physical inventory for fiscal year 1969-70 as well projected physical plant needs.
g) Explore cooperative interinstitutional programs involving common use of facilities and educational technological resources.
3. Wherever feasihle, for the planning activities covered by this study, the University of Puerto Rico will use the same demographic, economic, and social data as those used in other
I' types of comprehensive planning within the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.
4. That findings betabulated with all data and conclusions as well as recommendations witb scbematic drawings as necessary íbr classification.
5. The study initiated during July 1967 will cost tbe Commonwealth Commission the amount of $171,337 for the fírst three years to he financed as foUows:
a) $36,936 from a Grant for comprehensive facihties planning studies granted during fiscal year 1967-68
h) $20,529 from funds allocated to the Commonwealth Commission during fiscal year 1967-68
c) $32,957 from a Grant for comprehensive planning studies to cover fiscal year 1968-69
d) $24,000 from funds allocated to the Commonwealth Commission during fiscal year 1968-69
e) $29,315 from a Grant for comprehensive facilities planning studies granted during fiscal year 1969-70
f) $27,600 from funds allocated to the Commonwealth Commission during fiscal year 1969-70
6. During the preparation of the comprehensive facilities planning, the University of Puerto Rico may request monthly payments not to exceed the amount of $2,500 per month.
7. That the Commonwealth Commission for the Advancement of Higher Education he informed as to progress of the work completed.
8. This agreement shall he interpreted in accordance with the laws of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.
In San Juan,Puerto Rico,the 30th of June of the year 1969.
Signed:
Ramón Mellado Signed: President of the
Commonwealth Commission for the Advancement of Higher Education Jaime
Beni'tez
President
University of Puerto Rico
AMENDMENT TO AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE COMMONWEALTH COMMISSION FOR THE -ADVANCEMENT OF HIGHER EDUCATION AND THE UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO
RICO
1. This amendment to agreement made as of the I5th day of August of the year 1969 by and between the Commonwealth Commission for the Advancement of Higher Education and the University of Puerto Rico, Office of the President,is in accordance with the agreement executed the 30th day of June of the yeár 1969,to continué to perform a joint Comprehensive Planning Study for Fiscal Year 1969-70.
2. Whereas, Article 6 of said agreement reads:
During the preparation of the comprehensive facilities planning, the University of Puerto Rico may request monthly payments not to exceed the amount of $2,500 per month"-he suhstituted and in liew thereof read; "During the preparation of the comprehensive facilities planning, the University of Puerto Rico may request monthly payments not to exceed the amount of $10,000 per month".
3.
This amendment shall he interpreted in accordance with the Laws of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.
In San Juan, Puerto Rico,the 20th day of August of the year 1969.
Signed:
Ramón Mellado President of the Commonwealth Commission for the Advancement of Higher Education
Signed:
Jaime Benítez President , , University of Puerto Rico
