Southeast to establish study program in Cuba

Southeast Missouri State University has secured federal approval to establish study programs in Cuba.

Dr. Peter Gordon, professor of marketing and director of international business programs at Southeast, said the programs could prepare students for job opportunities with companies who are anxious to do business with Cuba if the trade embargo is lifted.

Southeast will be among 15 universities nationwide that will operate study programs in Cuba.

Gordon said a group of Southeast business, political science and foreign language professors hope to visit Cuba in the spring to lay the groundwork for the first group of students to travel there in the fall of 2002.

A program in Cuba would include diplomatic presentations arranged through U.S. government agencies, briefings at foreign embassies in Havana, such as Canada and Britain, and programs at the University of Havana.