The University of Puerto Rico at Humacao, as the leading higher education institution in the eastern area of Puerto Rico establishes students as the center of university activity; therefore, the university’s efforts are directed toward teaching, research, and services that foster ethical, cultural, aesthetic, humanistic, technological, and student intellectual development; furthermore, the university contributes to the formation of citizens that are instilled with knowledge and values that serve to strengthen participatory democracy, ecological sustainability, justice, and equity in the eastern region, Puerto Rico, and the Caribbean.