JORGE SILVA-PURAS has been appointed to lead CUNY’s School of Professional Studies. Silva-Puras is a government administrator and former CUNY distinguished lecturer who is currently the executive vice president for academic affairs and provost at Sagrado Corazón University in Puerto Rico. He holds a bachelor’s degree from Yale University, a law degree from the University of Puerto Rico and an MBA from the University of Texas at Austin and the Copenhagen Business School in Denmark.