HISTORY

The Cuba Academic Alliance was formed in May 2004, at an informal gathering of study abroad advisors, students and program providers at NAFSA’s annual meeting in Baltimore, Maryland. The gathering was in response to new rules promulgated by the U.S. State Department that shuttered several longstanding study abroad programs in Cuba and put an end to most programming on the island.

Since then, representatives of more than 80 academic institutions have joined this loose organization, in an effort to share information and encourage a lifting of these unnecessary restrictions on academic freedoms.