Center for Studies and Documentation on Puerto Rican Higher Education

The Center for Studies and Documentation on Puerto Rican Higher Education (CEDESP, Spanish: ).......................

It has recently issued a call for proposals to researchers interested in higher education in Puerto Rico. The Center has outlined six research topics for proposals.

The first such topic is research itself. Research is an imperative component of higher education, as it enables development of new knowledge.

The next two topics aim to explore another relevant issue for the Puerto Rico Council on Higher Education (Spanish acronym CESPR); the quality and effectiveness of higher education. Topic two proposes studying the relationship between the academic load of teaching staff and the quality of education, while topic three focuses on factors associated with individual and institutional success.

Topic four is the highly important issue of the effectiveness of student financial aids programs and their relationship to academic success.

The fifth topic request is an nalysis of the profiles of virtual education students.

And the final topic is left open for researchers to submit proposals regarding other issues not included here.

Projects start in July 2009 and run until October 2010.

For more details see http://www.gobierno.pr/NR/rdonlyres/66C3A76C-2A6E-44FC-89B3-E9F149384FC9/0/INGL_TEMARIO09_10_EdAF_2_.pdf

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