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Who are we?
Vision
Mission
Objectives
Description
Vision
To
be a model of excellence for the Dominican Republic, one that
will foster overall human development, through a form of education
that transforms you.
Mission
To further and offer education with efficiency,
in order to satisfy the demands of the
disciplines that are necessary to overall human development.
Objectives
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To offer programs at an associate’s level, a bachelor’s
level, postgraduate studies, and continuing education;
programs that will bring together scientific knowledge
and professional skills, with a knowledge and mastery
of the English tongue as a universal second language.
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To contribute to the updating of professionals, teachers,
researchers, technicians, and the public in general,
in order to train them to face appropriately the challenges
of a society that aims at constant development by offering
continued education and extracurricular programs.
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To promote and carry out methodological, scientific,
technological, and cultural research in the fields of
study that offer their educational services and are
of interest to the community.
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To contribute to the diffusion of knowledge and of human,
scientific, and cultural values through the development
of extension programs and the publication, popularization,
and provision of professional services and cultural
activities.
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To develop, promote, and offer services to the community,
in order to apply the knowledge, technology, and methodology
that it teaches in order to contribute to the solution
of social and community problems.
Description
UNICDA
is the University of the Instituto Cultural Domínico-Americano,
(ICDA), a cultural organism, and also an organism for bilingual
education, founded more than half a century ago to promote
bicultural friendship and to teach languages. The ICDA has
a vast program of services to the community, which includes
cultural and artistic events – a wide scope of educational
institutions, among them a pre-school, a school that offers
primary and secondary education, and which is accredited in
the United States, and the largest school in the Caribbean
for the teaching of English and Spanish as foreign languages.
Besides,
the Universidad Domínico-Americana serves its community
and its students as a dynamic gateway toward professional
life. It offers programs that can be completed in two or three
years, thus obtaining one’s degree; it also offers postgraduate
studies, and a wide variety of programs in the domain of continued
education.
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UNICDA
offers a welcoming, comfortable atmosphere, where all
the classrooms are air-conditioned. Each classroom can
hold only 24 students. It is easy to reach, being in
the center of the city, in a city where traffic is so
heavy.
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UNICDA
gathers the most innovating ideas and concentrates them
into programs, procedures, and policies that keep the
student in constant activity.
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UNICDA
listens to the companies, organisms, and groups whose
employees are or have been registered here, in order
to adapt their instructional program to the emerging
reality of Dominican life within a globalized economy.
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UNICDA
is the only bilingual university in the Dominican Republic.
All its graduates know the English tongues as well as
they do Spanish.
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UNICDA
graduates persons who are easy to recognize because
it forms them with a basis of practical knowledge, making
them conscious of being bicultural and of having communicative
competence and leadership skills.
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UNICDA
emphasizes the quality of teaching, administration,
and student services.
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UNICDA
takes pride in providing an intimate atmosphere, since
it is a small school, where the size of classes is strictly
limited, and where personal attention is the standard.
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UNICDA
knows each student by his name, and offers him/her personalized
treatment.
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