Celeste Freytes

Celeste Freytes Gonzalez (born 1950s) is a Puerto Rican teacher who was named, in 2013, interim President of the University of Puerto Rico.[1] When ratified in that position during 2016, she substituted Uroyoan Walker Ramos as president of the institution[2] and Dr. Jose Lasalde as interim President.[1]

Freytes Gonzalez announced on February 16, 2017, that she and other UPR leaders were renouncing from their positions, a move that was investigated by the Puerto Rican senate.[3] She was substituted by Nivia Fernandez as interim president of the UPR.


Biography

Freytes Gonzalez graduated from a local university in San Juan in 1979. She studied at the University of Puerto Rico and earned her doctoral degree from Boston University in 1979. She was a teacher on the Puerto Rican education system for 36 years, and at the moment of her ascending to interim President of the UPR (PRU) she was a commissioner on the Middle States Commission on Higher Education.[4]

In 2013, Freytes was a member of Puerto Rico Governor Alejandro Garcia Padilla's transitional team before he took office as governor; Garcia Padilla contacted her directly about becoming interim president of the UPR before she was named to the position.[5]

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