The Municipal University Center in Contramaestre, after finishing a successful school year in which it graduated 155 new professionals in 6 specialties, begins a new stage of teaching work, this time with the purpose of surpassing all the indicators of the previous period.
This was announced during the opening ceremony of the 2024-2025 school year, for which new students were registered in eight courses. In order to ensure the teaching process, there are professionals of high scientific level, among them fifteen assistant professors and four PhDs who were presented on the occasion.
The director of the Municipal University Center in Contramaestre, Bárbara Donet Olivares, called to work with discipline and enthusiasm. She encouraged to always keep in mind the spirit of human growth, patriotism and the conviction of a better future based on individual and collective effort and success.
History of CUM Contramaestre
On October 5, 2005, the Contramaestre municipal university campus was established. With an enrollment of 94 students in 4 courses.
According to agreement No. 6995, the creation of the CUM was approved.
In September 2014 the higher education centers were merged, making up the current University Municipal Center of Contramaestre, by means of Agreement No. 7599 of the Council of Ministers.
The University Center of Contramaestre, located at Carretera Central # 190 Rpto. Frank País, with two buildings, one with an old construction style with 3 rooms where the teaching secretariat, the research and postgraduate sub-directorate, the management and the lobby are located; the other with a more modern style with 5 rooms where the computer laboratory, the administration, the network administration, human resources, teaching sub-directorate and library are located.
The CUM has 3 branches in different educational institutions of the territory for the development of teaching.
IP Antonio Santiago García.
ESBU José Tey Saint Blancard (Pepito).
Pioneer’s Palace: Marlenis Labrada Méndez
Mission:It conducts, develops and promotes the policies of higher education in the continuous and integral formation of the professional, science, innovation, university extension, with the constant search for excellence in all processes to contribute to the development of a prosperous and sustainable society, with the relevance and impact that our time demands.
Vision: An institution of higher education, recognized for the quality of its processes, the social relevance of its initial and continuing education programs, the results of the activity of science, technology and innovation, as well as the assumption of the challenges of our country in this century to promote local development with competitiveness and political commitment.