EDP University<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nEng. Gladys Nieves V\u00e1zquez, coursed her undergraduate studies at Syracuse University and the University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus where he was awarded the degree of Bachelor of Industrial Engineering. Besides her Engineering degree, she has a Master\u2019s degree in Business Administration from the Rio Piedras Campus of the University of Puerto Rico. As a young entrepreneur, she began to apply the acquired knowledge in Total Quality Management, a key experience grown during her work as an engineer at Johnson & Johnson\u2019s plant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In 1997, she assumed the presidency of EDP College at age 27, after the death of his father, becoming the youngest national president of a university. In 2009 she announced with her mother Gladys Vazquez conversion of the university to a nonprofit entity. Among her accomplishments as president, she had the urge to accredit the institution by Middle States and change it in 2013 from college to university, re naming the institution to EDP University of Puerto Rico. For eight years she represented the Institute of Industrial Engineers in the Disciplinary Tribunal of the College of Engineering.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Today Nieves is the Second Vice-President of the Association of Private Education of Puerto Rico; Secretary of the HETS Consortium; member of the Puerto Rico\u2019s Universia<\/em> Board of Directors, and the Board of Directors of the Association of Private Education of Puerto Rico.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n
Regional Representative East <\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\nDr. Havid\u00e1n RodriguezPresidentUniversity at Albany, SUNY (New York)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nDr. Havid\u00e1n Rodr\u00edguez was appointed by the SUNY Board of Trustees as the 20th president of the University at Albany in June 2017. He took office in September 2017 after more than 25 years as a leader in higher education. Dr. Rodr\u00edguez served as the Founding Provost & Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV). He also served as President, Ad Interim, and Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs at the University of Texas – Pan American (UTPA). Dr. Rodr\u00edguez played a key leadership role in the creation of UTRGV – which resulted from the consolidation of UTPA and the University of Texas Brownsville – and the creation, from the ground up, of UTRGV\u2019s School of Medicine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dr. Rodr\u00edguez has received numerous recognitions and awards and has served on a number of committees for the National Academy of Sciences and on review panels for the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Ford Foundation, and was the Chair of the Latina\/o Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association. His role in community engagement and service to the community, at the local, regional, and national level has been extensive. Dr. Rodr\u00edguez has served on numerous community, professional, and university boards, organizations, and committees.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Regional Representative West<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\nDr. Tom\u00e1s Morales<\/strong>President<\/strong>California State University at San Bernardino (California)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nTom\u00e1s D. Morales was selected as the president of California State University, San Bernardino in May 2012. He is the university\u2019s fourth president since it opened in 1965. Previously, Morales was president of the College of Staten Island, The City University of New York (CUNY), since 2007. A staunch advocate of this university\u2019s commitment to student success, he has championed the importance of access to higher education and preparing young people for collegiate success throughout his extensive career as a dedicated educational leader.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
During his tenure at CSUSB, Morales has overseen sustained growth in overall enrollment, the number of degrees awarded, community engagement and university fundraising. The face of the institution is also expanding with its five-year strategic plan well underway, including the new Coyote Village residence hall and Coyote Commons dining hall, the largest single construction project in university history.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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International Representative<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\nDr. Maritza Rond\u00f3n Rangel<\/strong>ChancellorMaritza Rond\u00f3n Rangel, who served as Director of Quality for Higher Education of the Ministry of National Education (2007 – 2008), Vice Minister in charge and who was linked to the Universidad Cooperativa de Colombia, since 2012, as Academic Vice-rector, became Nationwide Chancellor of the Institution since 2015. The University Assembly appointed the Academician to continue with the institution’s consolidation process, whose immediate challenges this year are: to accredit more than 20 undergraduate programs with high quality and to inaugurate modern infrastructure works in the Bucaramanga headquarters, Santa Marta, Espinal and Medell\u00edn. Rond\u00f3n continued to lead the Strategic Plan “Navigating Together” that sets goals for 2022 and whose basic objective is to make the Cooperative University of Colombia a world-class institution. Rond\u00f3n Rangel, is at the head of the institution that today has 18 branches, 52 thousand students, 4,500 professors and more than 220 programs with qualified registration.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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