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University of Puerto Rico.
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Juan Mestas
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Previously Mestas taught at Portland State University, and before that he was director of Educational Access Services, director of Educational Opportunity Programs and associate director of Student Development Programs at California State University. He has coordinated leadership programs sponsored by the American Council on Education (American Council on Exercise). Served as an American Council on Exercise/Pew fellow at the University of Pennsylvania.
Directed San Jose State University"s Upward Bound Program, which the United States. Department of Education considered one of the nation"s most successful college preparatory programs for economically disadvantaged and academically underprepared high school students.
And chaired the Puerto Rican Studies Program at the State University of New York/Stony Brook. Author of El pensamiento social de Jose Martí: ideología y cuestión obrera (Madrid: Editorial Pliegos, 1993), he holds a Doctor of Philosophy and an Master of Arts from State University of New York/Stony Brook in Hispanic languages and literature and a Bachelor of Arts from Universidad de Puerto Rico in Hispanic studies.
