The Roberto Sánchez Vilella School of Public Administration is one of the professional graduate schools of the

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and the only

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school in

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, an

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of the United States. In 1997, the university administration gave the school the name of the late Roberto Sanchez Vilella, a former Governor of Puerto Rico and one of the school's prominent lecturers. Its graduates include important and prominent figures of

, including Norma Burgos, a former

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and currently a member of the

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. The school received official accreditation from the

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in 2010 and, as such, is the only accredited Spanish-speaking public policy school in the United States.

Faculty

The school's professors include Dr. Richard Blanco Peck, Dra. Yolanda Cordero Nieves, Dr. Juan Moldes Rodríguez, Dr. Mario Negrón Portillo, Dr. Saúl Pratts de León, Dr. José A. Punsoda Díaz, Dra. Palmira N. Ríos González, Dr. Leonardo Santana Rabell, Dr. Carlos Alá Santiago, and Dr. César Rey, a former Secretary of the

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under Governor

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(2001-2004).

References

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