The Caucus of Claustral Representatives of the University Board of the University of Puerto Rico (UPR) left today, Wednesday, a meeting scheduled with the president of the institution, Jorge Haddock, as a form of protest against being awarded a position of professor.
Jorge Colon, one of the isolated representatives who left explained Puerto Rico Metro that in this way they demand that the board of the institution revoke that determination, which in its view is unlawful under the UPR regulations.
“We left the meeting in protest at the decision of the UPR Board of Directors to grant President Jorge Haddock a position of professor because it is an illegal and anti-regulatory act,” Colón explained in a telephone interview .
“The board of directors does not have the power to assign him a position or a segregated rank,” he added.
At the end of last month, the institution’s governing body approved the granting of a position as a professor and submitted it to the contractual responsibility of both parties, as when the president was ratified in 2018, a clause stipulated that he must award square if he remained in the presidential seat for two years or more.
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According to Colón, the institution’s regulations stipulate that in order to fill a vacant position, a public call must be opened and interested persons must request by means of a letter stating their curriculum vitae and their qualifications, and then the personnel committee of the department with the vacancy assesses the candidates to decide who to hire.
“All this was ignored on this occasion by the president. The board of directors took over the power that it does not have to skip all regulatory steps and assign him the place and that disgraceful and discriminatory,” the professor also added.
This medium tried to get a response from the president of the UPR, but received no response at the time of this publication.