Felix Matos Rodríguez, a native of Puerto Rico, will become the first person of color to lead the City Univ. of New York -- the nation's largest urban public univ. system -- in its 172-year history. - NBCLatino
Before that, as president of Hostos Community College in the Bronx, Matos Rodríguez raised college retention rates from 57 percent to 68 percent at the predominantly Latino institution and doubled fundraising efforts.
Matos Rodríguez plans to scale up the nationally recognized Accelerated Study in Associate Programs , which has seen more than half of the students enrolled in associate degrees graduate in three years. The program helps students with everything from free transportation to mentoring and peer groups. An award-winning scholar on the history of women in the Caribbean, he wrote “Women and Urban Life in Nineteenth Century San Juan, P.R. 1820-1862” and edited several books, including, “A Nation of Women: An Early Feminist Speaks Out,” about Puerto Rican rebel feminist thinker Luisa Capetillo, who was arrested in Cuba for wearing trousers in 1915.
He also served as a cabinet secretary of the department of family services for the commonwealth of Puerto Rico from 2006 to 2008, where he administered a $2 billion budget.A 'chancident'
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