Fernandez returns
President Leonel Fernandez returned from his weeklong visit to the United States yesterday. Fernandez traveled to the US to attend the 63rd United Nations General Assembly and made the most of his trip to hold meetings with several fellow heads of state.
He spent most of his time, however, on meetings with academia, and met with students and professors at New York University, Columbia University, Fordham University, Brown University and Harvard University. He also met with students from Columbia Secondary School for Math, Science and Engineering, for academically talented high school students. At Harvard in Boston he visited Kathleen McCartney, dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education, to prepare the way for next week’s visit by Dominican Education Minister Melanio Paredes who is due to sign an agreement for training Dominican teachers. In Boston he met with legendary Boston Red Sox slugger David Ortiz and visited the Schomburg [...]
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