University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras Campus

The University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus (UPRRP) —or Universidad de Puerto Rico, Recinto de Río Piedras in Spanish— is a state university located in the city of San Juan, Puerto Rico. UPRRP is the largest campus of the University of Puerto Rico System, and the first public university in the history of Puerto Rico. In the year 1900 the Escuela Normal Industrial (Normal Industrial School) was established in Fajardo, Puerto Rico as the firs... more

The University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus (UPRRP) —or Universidad de Puerto Rico, Recinto de Río Piedras in Spanish— is a state university located in the city of San Juan, Puerto Rico. UPRRP is the largest campus of the University of Puerto Rico System, and the first public university in the history of Puerto Rico. In the year 1900 the Escuela Normal Industrial (Normal Industrial School) was established in Fajardo, Puerto Rico as the first Higher Education institution of Puerto Rico, dedicated to those who would become teachers on the island. At the time it only had 20 students and 5 professors. A year later, in 1901, it was moved to the town of Río Piedras, because the roads to Fajardo were in a terrible condition. In the mild and studying-favourable nature around what was known by the time as "La Convalecencia" - the summer residence of the Spanish Governors of Puerto Rico- was placed, temporally, the Normal School. Its objectives were still the formation of new teachers for... less