Porto Rico - A Colony of the United States

In two thousand 16, the federal promesa act installed an unelected fiscal control board over the locally elected government. Part of this restructuring included a 500 million dollar cut to porto rico's only public institution of higher education,. The university began to enact a series of policies that increasingly squeezed faculty in terms of time. When i started as a u p r professor, i could get coarse release time just for writing grants, not even getting them. You can get a grant no matter what size, but you need to run it on your own time while teaching your four, four load - unless you can buy at your salary.