University of Miami Gets $2.5 Million
for Cuban Heritage Collection
The University of Miami’s Institute for Cuban and Cuban-American Studies has received a $2.5-million grant from the Goizueta Foundation to build and renovate space in UM’s Otto G. Richter Library for a pavillion to house the Cuban Heritage Collection of more that 45,000 books, as well as photographs, records, artworks, and personal and corporate papers.
Announced September 21, the gift will be awarded as a challenge grant; the university must raise an additional $5 million for the institute from other private sources. Dan Kalmanson, a spokesperson for the university, said in the September 22 Miami Herald that officials “hope this grant will help make the collection more accessible to both scholars and the general public.”
The Atlanta-based Goizueta Foundation was founded by Roberto C. Goizueta, the late Cuban-born chairman and CEO of Coca-Cola. The institute is the only Cuban studies center in the United States that emphasizes the dissemination of Cuban history and culture, according to the Herald.
Posted September 27, 1999.
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