José Ramón de la Torre is a Puerto Rican academic who was the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Institute of Puerto Rican Culture (ICP) and the Luis A. Ferré Performing Arts Center. De la Torre was also the ninth president of the University of Puerto Rico since February 1, 2010. He presented his resignation on February 11, 2011. [1]
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De la Torre received his baccalaureate and master's degrees from the Department of Hispanic Studies of University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras Campus and his Ph.D. in Philosophy and Letters from the Madrid Central University, now the Complutense University of Madrid.
He was Professor of Hispanic Literature in University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras Campus and former dean of the Faculty of Humanities at UPRRP. [2]
He was also a founding member of the Puerto Rican Association of University Professors (APPU) in 1962 and co-founder of the program of translation of the UPR. [3]
On January 27, 2010 he was elected by the Board of Trustees of the University of Puerto Rico as the ninth president of the UPR. De la Torre sworn in as the ninth president of the University of Puerto Rico on February 1, 2010.
On February 11, 2011 he presented his resignation to the presidency of the University of Puerto Rico. [4]