With Decree 389-01, President Hipolito Mejia turns the Dominican-American Cultural Institute (ICDA) into a full-fledged university. The government has authorized the ICDA to offer university degrees in business administration, tourism and hotel business administration, marketing and advertising. Also authorized are degrees in education in the areas of the arts, English as a second language, pre-school education, grade school education and information technology. ICDA began as a language school, diversifying into a primary and secondary school.
