The María Cano University Foundation receives, at the Medellín headquarters, the delegates of this Dominican institution, who will be in Colombia with academic, research and extension activities. The directors Aldelys Altagracia Rodríguez de Sánchez, director of the School of Administration; Carmen Rita Espaillat Soto, professor at the Faculty of Economic and Social Sciences; and Iván Vladimir Sánchez Brito, postgraduate professor, met with the vice rectors, Jorge Albeiro Herrera Builes and Carlos Julio Escobar Noreña; the leaders of the Faculty of Business Sciences, the director of the Advanced and Continuing Training Center, the director of the Business Research and Development Center, as well as the head of Internationalization, with the aim of strengthening cooperation relations between both institutions..

In the opening ceremony of the visit, the proposal for a framework agreement between both institutions was delivered, which includes planned activities such as exchange of teachers and students, international research, generation of joint postgraduate proposals, which shows a constant commitment with the quality and projection of knowledge in different regions of the continent, directly benefiting the members of the university communities.

It is important to highlight that María Cano, at the time of signing the agreement, would become the first private higher education institution in the world to have this type of cooperation agreement with the Autonomous University of Santo Domingo, due to its public nature that It generated certain restrictions on relationships with other study centers in friendly countries.

On its website, the Autonomous University of Santo Domingo highlights that «it was created by means of the Bull In Apostolatus Culmine, issued on October 28, 1538 by Pope Paul III, which raised to that category the General Study that the Dominicans ruled from the 1518, in Santo Domingo, viceregal seat of colonization and the oldest colonial establishment in the New World. He began his teachings organized in four Faculties: Medicine, Law, Theology and Arts, in accordance with the norms established at the time for similar institutions in the metropolis. Arts studies included two modalities, namely: the trivium that included Grammar, Rhetoric and Logic and the quadrivium, which included Arithmetic, Geometry, Astronomy and Music”.

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