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Gerónimo-López, Kamil; Tormos-Aponte, Fernando – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2021
This article analyzes the experience of higher education student organizing in Puerto Rico. The national student strikes of 2010 and 2017 were the longest held in the history of the University of Puerto Rico, the island's only public institution for higher education. We examine the educational approach of the national student social movement using…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Higher Education, Public Colleges, College Students
Navarro-Rivera, Pablo – Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, 2010
Students from the University of Puerto Rico (UPR) went on strike in April, and, soon after, 10 of the 11 campuses of a public system with more than 60,000 students were closed. "Once recintos, una universidad" (eleven campuses, one university) was the maxim students used to emphasize the concept of the UPR as a system unified by similar…
Descriptors: Strikes, Campuses, Institutional Autonomy, Foreign Countries