The largest house of higher studies in the province, the University of Holguin (UHo), celebrates this November 4th fifty five years dedicated to the formation of new professionals and to the economic and social development of the country from science and innovation.
More than 76 thousand graduates in exact sciences, economy, technical studies, pedagogy, agriculture, livestock, legal studies, physical culture, social and humanistic sciences have passed through the classrooms of this Alma Mater, which besides offering a broad undergraduate training, gives the possibility to its graduates to continue studies in master’s and doctorate programs.
Meanwhile, the extension activity makes that in the four campuses: Oscar Lucero, José de la Luz y Caballero, Manuel Fajardo and Celia Sánchez, there is no lack of cultural activity, with the leading role of the Movement of Amateur Artists of the Federation of University Students (FEU), which has given so many awards in national competitions to the institution.
In the most difficult stage of the confrontation with Covid-19, as a sign of its humanist spirit, the university in Holguin turned its residences into field hospitals, where workers and students collaborated in the care of patients.
After overcoming this complex task, scientific activity continues, proof of which is the permanent commitment to events that position it internationally as a “space for growth”, among them, its International Scientific Conference and the Conference on Foreign Languages, Communication and Culture, known as WEFLA.
But it also hosts the National University Radio Festival, organized biannually by the University Student Federation, and Apunto National Meeting of Journalism Students, both initiatives born from its students.
As it commemorates half a century and a lustrum, the now integrated University of Holguin zealously keeps a rich educational and scientific tradition inherited from the then “Oscar Lucero Moya” University, the “José de la Luz y Caballero” Higher Pedagogical Institute and the “Manuel Fajardo” Faculty of Physical Culture and Sports, which merged since 2015.
University of Holguin celebrates its 55th anniversary
As part of the celebrations for the 55th anniversary of the University of Holguin, celebrated this November 4, the Eddy Suñol Cultural Complex Theater hosted a gala that showed the best of the university and professional cultural movement in the province.
The event was attended by Ernesto Santiesteban Velázquez, member of the Central Committee and first secretary of the Party in Holguín and Bárbara Díaz Ramírez, member of the Provincial Party Bureau, together with professors, workers and students of the university.
Exponents of Holguin culture such as maestro Oreste Saavedra and his Holguin Symphonic Orchestra, the Holguin Choral Society, the Feeling Voices quartet, soloist Nadiel Mejias and the theater group Mestizaje, paraded on the stage in homage to Holguin’s largest Higher Education center.
Together with them, students of the Elementary School of Art “Raúl Gómez García”, the Professional School of Music “José María Ochoa” and the Holguin branch of the University of Arts, in communion with the members of the wide Movement of Amateur Artists of the University of Holguin.
University of Holguin, Higher Education, Anniversary
As a culmination of the gala, the Provincial Bureau of the Communist Party of Cuba and the local Government gave a special recognition to the University of Holguin for the excellent results in the formation of professionals and the contribution, from science and innovation, to the development of the country.
In commemorating 55 years, the now integrated Holguin University zealously keeps a rich teaching tradition inherited from the then University of Holguin “Oscar Lucero Moya”, the Higher Pedagogical Institute “José de la Luz y Caballero” and the Faculty of Physical Culture and Sports “Manuel Fajardo”, which merged since 2015.
With information from the University of Holguín / Translated by Radio Angulo
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