The Fund for Reconciliation and Development, is working with Holbrook Travel to offer an eight-day Cuba orientation program from June 15 to 24. The program is designed for study abroad staff and prospective faculty leaders of short-term student trips.
The professional schedule includes meetings with the Ministry of Higher Education, several universities in Havana, and provincial universities in Matanzas, Santa Clara, Sancti Spiritus, and Cienfuegos. The program was developed and will be led by John McAuliff based on his participation in Cuba's Higher Education Congress in February.
The itinerary and cost are available at http://cubapeopletopeople.blogspot.com/2012/03/orientation-program-for-study-abroad.html.
A very different kind of access is available in mid April through a program focusing on the Irish Heritage in Cuba, which might be of research interest to faculty and graduate students who work on migration, Irish studies, Celtic performance arts or the Caribbean.
For questions, please contact John McAuliff at jmcauliff@ffrd.org, 914-231-6270.
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