Drake signs deal with Cuba
Drake University and the University of Havana have signed a new five-year memorandum of understanding to build on the Iowa university’s longtime work in the island nation and to capitalize on improving relations between their countries.
Drake has collaborated with various groups in Cuba for 30 years. The new agreement commits the two universities to partnerships on special programs, research and exchanging faculty, staff and students.
Drake University President Marty Martin signed the deal on Havana’s campus Dec. 10.
“Cuba, given its unique place in the world and emerging relationship with the United States, offers a particularly appealing partnership,” Martin said in a statement.
Despite the broad travel restrictions established in 1963, Drake representatives have traveled to Cuba legally since at least 1985 to study law, politics and agriculture.
Drake’s Agricultural Law Center has been working with a faculty member at the Havana Law School on a research project. Neil Hamilton, the center’s director, works with University of Havana Law School professor Maritza McCormick to study a program that shifts state-owned farmland to private-use agreements, and the challenges faced by beginning farmers in the United States.
The study is meant to help food production and agricultural law reform.
Read Drake’s full news release.
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