Two- and Four-Year College Partners

CLACS welcomes opportunities to collaborate with community colleges, technical colleges, and Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs) to further expand Latin American and Caribbean Studies-related courses, programs and faculty professional development.

Alverno College

  • Virtual Series: Wisconsin Immigrant Workers: Their Stories and Impact, with Alverno Assessment and Outreach and UWM Center for International Education (Spring 2022)
  • Travel support for faculty member to participate in a Global Studies Symposium for Minority Serving Institutions and Community Colleges, hosted at Vanderbilt University (December 2021)
  • Teacher Workshop: Global Perspectives on Freedom of Speech, with Alverno Assessment and Outreach and UWM Center for International Education (August 2021)
  • Alverno Graduating Teacher Celebration, featuring Mexican children’s writer/illustrator Duncan Tonatiuh and Dr. Pablo Muirhead (MATC), discussing bringing children’s book cultural content into the classroom. CLACS also gifted graduating bilingual educators with a Tonatiuh book of their choice. (June 2021)
  • Teacher Workshop: Global Girlhoods, with Alverno Assessment and Outreach, UWM Center for International Education and UW-Madison International Regional and International Programs (November 2020)
  • Travel support for faculty member to participate in a Global Studies Symposium for Minority Serving Institutions and Community Colleges, hosted at Florida International University (January 2019)
  • Workshop: Developing and Sustaining Latin American Studies Programs, in collaboration with the North Central Council of Latin Americanists (Spring 2018)
  • Small Grants Program to support new course development
  • Workshop: Best Practices to Internationalize Post-Secondary Curriculum (Spring 2015)

    • Wisconsin Technical College System

  • Faculty professional development support for design of a study away program, “Digitizing the Americas: Exploring Cuba through Miami, Media and Technology (2017-18, Northeast WI Technical College)
  • UISFL grant application evaluation team (Summer 2016, Milwaukee Area Technical College)
  • Workshop presentations: WTCS workshop, Internationalizing Curriculum (Spring 2016, Moraine Park Technical College)
  • Faculty support for participation in Indiana University Institute for Curriculum and Campus Internationalization (Waukesha County Technical College faculty, Spring 2016, spring 2015)
  • NAFSA webinar support: Curricular Designs for Global Learning (Fall 2014, Milwaukee Area Technical College)