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changed. We need an economic model based on global competitiveness and collaboration. Therefore, new solutions are needed to meet an entirely new set of challenges and capitalize on new opportunities that can be created through innovation and people/place-based strategies. With this contextual setting, the following are essential opportunities to re-envision the higher education system in Puerto Rico. 1) Puerto Rico Higher Education System can anchor community development through people and placebased strategies. As anchor institutions, universities have the capacity and capital to rebuild adjacent communities through investments in education, its workforce, real estate and the physical landscape. Universities are hubs for learning and social engagement for local residents and businesses that build social capital and connect people to the mainstream society. Faculty and students can work directly with communities on asset-based projects to benefit the residents and neighborhoods, through transforming community spaces into businesses, repurpose communities and educational corridors. In cities and towns where universities are located throughout the island, the university leaders, faculty, and students can take an active role in uniting residents in shared meaning, learning and dialogue about the future of their communities. University personnel can serve as facilitators of knowledge to elicit and implement ideas that move the community forward, particularly around rebuilding a pre-K-12 education system aligned with Higher Education, improving value of property, real estate development and developing sustainable systems of energy and water utilization, and identifying methods for small business development and microenterprises. For example, in Camden, New Jersey, Dr. Gloria Bonilla-Santiago, a Distinguished Professor in Public Policy and Administration at Rutgers University, organized parents, local businesses, local community organizations, university administrators, and New Jersey state legislators to envision and create a new University and Community School Social Enterprise model in the mid-1990s to upend the status quo in urban public education. The planning group formed LEAP Academy (Leadership, Education, and Partnership Inc.), as a cradle to college public school that families could attend throughout their entire schooling trajectory, starting as infants and toddlers, followed by pre-K, K-12, and then into college, all along an educational corridor in Downtown Camden. The targeted STEM College Access curriculum, Early College, Fabrication Lab for innovation and microenterprise, Parent Engagement and Family Support, and Health and Wellness programs provide a comprehensive and holistic approach to public education that prepares students and their families for college and careers. (Bonilla- Santiago, 2014) Dr. Santiago received an initial planning grant from the Delaware River Port Authority in 1992 for $1.5 million to organize parents and the community to envision and plan the new school. Over 25 years, she has been able to fundraise over $100 million from public and private sources to create state-of-the art buildings and endowment funds for college scholarships.
2) Universities as a place for access, affordability, quality, accountability, and innovation. Higher education enrollment outcomes in Puerto Rico reflect poorly on the education investment that has already been made. Because increased demand for higher education has not been matched by increased levels of funding, the quality of higher education in Puerto Rico has been compromised. Higher education systems in Puerto Rico are in need of renewal and its resources need to be strengthened and aligned to the current economic needs of Puerto Rico as well as to the demands from the global community. The system needs to be structured to capitalize on the diversity of strengths of the various institutions both public and private. A Higher Education Consortium should be in place to facilitate this process. Puerto Rico needs to adopt a new strategic, targeted and differentiated approach to increase enrollment at all levels of the higher education pipeline – undergraduate as well as postgraduate study. It needs to strengthen the quality of teaching and learning in higher education institutions by increasing the qualifications of faculty, producing at least double the number of masters and doctoral graduates, and retaining the best talent within the universities. A new vision for the higher education sector needs to address two key elements: the first is to strengthen governance, leadership and management, and introduce management information systems to improve the effectiveness of higher education planning and expenditure; and, the second is to strengthen scholarship through interdisciplinary practice and collaboration for innovation. Tuition costs for the public university need revision and adjustment. For the academic year 2016-2017, the average tuition costs for University of Puerto Rico (UPR) is $2,537 for instate and $4,372 for out-of-state students. The average cost of tuition and fees for the 2016– 2017 school year in the US is $9,970 for in-state residents at public colleges, and $14,620 for outof-state residents attending public universities. Compared with 2013, university costs have declined for in-state and out-of-state students, but the lowered costs affect the universities’ ability to receive enough revenue to operate with enough capital.
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