Hello, I'm the president of FC@UPRM. Right now our University is in the process of getting a new Chancellor; the old chancellor was appointed as the President of the whole University system. The chancellor is chosen by a board of trustees that chooses chancellors for all of the University of Puerto Rico campuses. But this process is extremely political and corrupt. In fact, the accreditation of our University was in jeopardy due in part to this corruption. Most of the time Chancellors, and even deans, are chosen because of their relationship with the ruling political party, not because of the merits of the candidates.
There is a selection process but this process is anything but a charade. Everybody knows that the new Chancellor is going to be current deputy Chancellor because of his political ties. However, five professors have taken a stand and are challenging the status quo. They are speaking the truth and are calling for a radical change of the selection process. Inspired by them we want to do something about this. Although the University doesn't let us vote for our Chancellor, we still want to vote anyways. *We are planning on holding electronic elections at our University next week * to let the students and professors choose the next chancellor. Although the vote won't have any direct consequences we are hoping that if the deputy chancellor loses by a huge margin and this gets media attention, the board of trustees will be forced by public opinion to change the process or at least choose a better candidate. But we need a trusted, open source and secure platform for this election. We immediately thought of Selectricity since we were familiar with it due to the board elections. *Does anybody here work directly in Selectricity? Can anybody here contact Mako and ask him if he can help us? * Thank you very much, Gabriel J. Pérez Irizarry* * For more background info: http://english.aljazeera.net/programmes/faultlines/2011/06/2011627132222888846.html http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/21/us/21students.html http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/18/education/18puertorico.html?pagewanted=all http://www.huffingtonpost.com/maritza-stanchich-phd/university-of-puerto-rico_b_635090.html
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