Page "University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus" Paragraph 6

On March 12, 1903, under the administration of the Public Instruction Commissioner, Samuel McCune Lindsay, the 2nd Legislative Assembly approved a law creating the University of Puerto Rico in Río Piedras, transferring all the funding of the Insular Normal School there.

This School became the first department of the University, what is now the Faculty of Education, becoming the nucleus of the University of Puerto Rico.