Reply #89: Not sure what you're fishing around for. The University of Havana

[Judi Lynn]

is surely well known worldwide. Here's a great project two outstanding Democratic Congressmen spearheaded:

Reaches Out To Forge Links With Cuba

By Doug Gavel
Gazette Staff

At a time when U.S—Cuban relations are at best strained and at worst bordering on crisis, a group of Harvard scholars is working to strengthen educational and cultural ties between the two longtime adversaries. The group went on a five-day trip to the island nation last week.

The trip was coordinated by the Washington Office on Latin America with the express purpose of expanding research collaboration and academic exchange programs involving the United States and Cuba. The 50-member delegation was headed by Massachusetts congressmen Joe Moakley and James McGovern, and included representatives from more than a dozen Massachusetts colleges and universities. The Harvard contingent was led by Jerome Murphy, Dean of the Graduate School of Education (GSE) and Stephen Reifenberg, executive director of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies.

"There was a great interest {among the participants} in finding out what’s going on {in Cuba} – particularly in the areas of education and health, and in the arts, and then looking for some possible areas of collaboration," Reifenberg says.
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Another result of contacts established during the trip will be a direct exchange of documentation and research on Latino immigration patterns in the United States. GSE Professor Marcelo Suarez-Orozco, co-director of the Harvard Immigration Project (HIP), spoke on the topic last week at the University of Havana. "They were very interested in our new research initiatives at the HIP on the new Latin American immigration," Suarez-Orozco says. "There is some interest on their part to be brought up to date on issues relating to this new Latino immigration pattern, and in the context of that, there’s a lot of interest in trying to send some Cuban scholars to the University."

Suarez-Orozco was impressed with the reception he received in Havana. "My sense is they are tremendously eager, certainly at the university level to {establish greater} communications {between the two countries}. There’s a great deal of interest about life in the United States, about sports, about the universities, about research. That’s what struck me the most."
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http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2000/04.27/cuba.html

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There are many U.S. universities which have had exchange programs working for many years. There's a well-known Cuban professor who has been teaching at Harvard for a couple of years before returning to Cuba. I've posted articles on him in several years ago.

U. S. university professors used to travel to Cuba a LOT before _Bush stole the pResidency, and Cuban professors came here continuously for various reasons. That was almost brought to a screeching halt altogether after _Bush. One professor was actually on the plane when they cancelled his engagement to speak at a university in Florida. All he could do was get off the plane, and spend the afternoon and evening with his friend who came to get him at the airport, then go back home.

You must remember that when Elián Gonzalez was enrolled in the Lincoln Martí day school owned by Cuban "exile" Demetrio Pérez, in Miami, they discovered he was FAR AHEAD of the students in his grade level, don't you?

Here's a list of some of the Cuban universities. They have exchange programs established with other countries, as well.
http://www.webometrics.info/university_by_country.asp-country=cu.htm

Have you never heard of the students who come to the medical school at the University of Havana from all over the world? They even go there from the U.S.

You would probably benefit from spending a little time trying to do some research on the subject. Just because you have never heard of something doesn't mean it doesn't exist, does it? Probably not.