Faculties 4 and 5 are merged; The school 6 adopts a new name.
After the central event for the beginning of the 2016-2017 academic year at the University of Informatics Sciences (known as UCI), each faculty performed its welcome activity in its groups, informing the new schedules, presenting to each administrative, political and student leadership, as well as the objectives proposed for this period to be higher.
Among the acts highlighted the one of the school 6, in the teaching building 4 , presided over by its Dean Ph.D. Ailec Granda Dihigo, who announced the new name of teh school : Faculty of Sciences and Computational Technologies.
On the other hand, schools 4 (Octavitos) and 5 (Grundys) were merged, giving rise to Faculty 4, number that corresponds in consecutivity of the faculties of the University.
During the beginning of Faculty 4, held in the Theater of teaching building 3, audio materials were presented referring to the Uprising of September 5th in Cienfuegos and the life and work of our Commander in Chief Fidel Castro.
This meeting was presided over by the Dean, Ph.D. Dunia María Colomé Cedeño, Master Manuel Villanueva Betancourt and Engineer Carlos Montenegro Amador, secretaries of the PCC and the UJC respectively, and by the student Álvaro Alejandro Acosta Ruiz, president of the Organizing Committee of the University Student Federation in the school 4.
The event culminated in a speech from Fidel Castro at the 7th Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement held in India on March 7th, 1983, which was adequate to face the new tasks.
"It has never been the resigned submission or the defeatism to the difficulties that has characterized us. We have been able to face with unitary sense, firmness and decision, complex and difficult situations in these last years. Together we have striven, together we have fought, and together we have won. With that same spirit and determination, we must be ready to wage the most colossal, just, dignified and necessary battle for the life and future of our peoples.