Minnesota college pays a $9,000 fine for Cuba travel

[Judi Lynn]

Saturday, July 8, 2006

Minnesota college pays a $9,000 fine for Cuba travel
By Steve Brandt
McClatchy Newspapers

MINNEAPOLIS — Augsburg College has paid $9,000 to settle allegations by the federal government that it violated the Cuban embargo by arranging trips for small groups of students and others.

The settlement disclosed this week arises from an allegation by an arm of the Treasury Department that the Minneapolis liberal arts college wasn't licensed properly for arranging travel to Cuba that included non-Augsburg students and other adults.

But Augsburg was told years ago by the department that it didn't need the travel service provider license that it lacked, according to Regina McGoff, assistant director of the college's Center for Global Education. Instead, it held an academic license. However, 2004 changes in requirements for such a license have forced the center to drop Cuban travel, she said.
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McGoff said the visits lasted one to three weeks and focused on meeting people from various sectors, including agricultural co-ops, health-care workers, educators, artists and musicians, economists and government officials.
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http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,640193197,00.html

[Deja Q]

1. Whoops! Well, don't worry, students will eat up the cost in the form of

tuition hikes...

Businesses can avoid penalties that way. And almost always do.

Pity.

[Donkeykick]

2. Yep!

Maybe! Just maybe! One day everyone will be able to go to college, huh.:eyes: