[NYTr] Fidel Castro Receives Honorary Degree from Information Sciences University
 
Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2007 00:53:01 -0500 (CDT)


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Fidel Castro Receives Honorary Degree from 
Information Sciences University

Havana, July 20 (acn) The first Honoris Causa Doctor degree of the 
Cuban University of Information Sciences (UCI) was granted to President 
Fidel Castro on Thursday on the occasion of the first graduation of 
this higher education center.

During the graduation ceremony, held at the Karl Marx theater in 
Havana, Dr. Alina Ruiz Jhones, vice rector of the institution, said 
that the leader of the Cuban Revolution is a source of inspiration, a 
founder of dreams and the main promoter of the use of information 
technologies for the benefit of the homeland and humanity.

For his part, Carlos Manuel Valenciaga, member of the Council of State 
and of the Central Committee of the Cuban Communist Party, 
congratulated the 1,334 graduates and recalled that the UCI is the 
result of the thoughts and ideas of Fidel Castro.

He noted that this education center was created to spread the study of 
computer sciences and, after only five years, its enrollment has 
increased from 2,483 to 16,395 students. In addition, he said, there 
are more than 39,000 students in poli-technical schools of information 
sciences.

The students of this school helped in the treatment of more than 27,000 
patients from sister nations as part of the Operation Miracle free 
eye-surgery program; 67 of them participated in internationalist 
missions in Venezuela and more than 5,000 students and 500 of its 
professors are linked to productive projects that are yielding incomes 
that already surpass the cost of its construction, Valenciaga stressed.

All of the graduates have a job guaranteed and 1,134 of them will be 
working with important ministries and with institutions that manage 
essential economic resources, he added.

Valenciaga also criticized the brain drain that the world witnesses 
today with more than 90% of the scientific force located in the seven 
most industrialized nations on the planet.

On behalf of the graduates, TaychC) Capote GarcC-a reaffirmed the 
graduates' loyalty to the Cuban Revolution and their decision to defend 
the homeland at any cost, anywhere.
       
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