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Curricular Deform at the University of Puerto Rico

¿No es el Anteproyecto de Un nuevo bachillerato para el año 2000, desde su mismo título, una especie de utopía defectuosa, un desgarrado esfuerzo totalizador de propuestas educativas que tienen, como mal de fondo, la ingenua pretensión de contenerlo todo; un modelo ecléctico que pretende reunir los fetiches ideológico-educativos del momento? —Dennis Alicea Rodíguez

I will tell you, Gentlemen, what has been the practical error of the last twenty years, —not to load the memory of the student with a mass of undigested knowledge, but to force upon him so much that he has rejected all. It has been the error of distracting and enfeebling the mind by an unmeaning profusion of subjects; of implying that a smattering in a dozen branches of study is not shallowness, which it really is, but enlargement, which it is not; of considering an acquaintance with the learned names of things and persons, and the possession of clever duodecimos, and attendance on eloquent lecturers, and membership with scientific institutions, and the sight of the experiments of a platform and the specimens of a museum, that all this was not dissipation of mind, but progress. All things now are to be learned at once, not first one thing, then another, not one well, but many badly. Learning is to be without exertion, without attention, without toil; without grounding, without advance, without finishing. There is to be nothing individual init; and this, forsooth, is the wonder of the age. What the steam engine does with matter, the printing press is to do with mind; it is to act mechanically, and the population is to be passively, almost unconsciously enlightened, by the mere multiplication and dissemination of volumes. Whether it be the school boy, or the school girl, or the youth at college, or the mechanic in the town, or the politician in the senate, all have been the victims in one way or other of this most preposterous and pernicious of delusions. Wise men have lifted up their voices in vain; and at length, lest their own institutions should be outshone and should disappear in the folly of the hour, they have been obliged, as far as they could with a good conscience, to humour a spirit which they could not withstand, and make temporizing concessions at which they could not but inwardly smile. — (John Henry Newman, The Idea of a University, Discourse VI,

Reconceptualization 101 – Deform of the UPR baccalaureate

Documents on the historical and philosophical roots of the current curricular deform at the University of Puerto Rico.

Deform of the Graduate Curriculum

CISE—by Philip Pennance. The Story of a Multi-campus “Virtual” Ph.D. at the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras.