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Nursing Department Celebrates 25 Years

The UAC-CP’s Nursing Department celebrated its 25th anniversary last week with a variety of festivities, including the annual pinning ceremony following a mass. The Nursing Department prepares graduates to work as health care professionals with specialized skills in public health. As part of the five-year program, students are required to participate in multiple week-long practical…

Addressing Issues of Water on Campus

As External Relations Coordinator at the UAC-CP, Rubén Mamani is responsible for a lot of tasks: supervising volunteers, hosting visitors, and helping UAC-CP students apply for scholarships–just to name a few. He’s also taken on the task of getting the College’s water system back on track. The impressive system was built over a number of…

Date Set for Annual CPF Fundraiser

Save the date for Carmen Pampa Fund’s annual ¡La Fiesta de Ayni! fundraiser in the Twin Cities. This year, the celebration of working together for the common good will be held Thursday, May 30, 2019, from 5:30 – 8:30 p.m. at St. Mary’s Greek Orthodox Church in South Minneapolis. More information, including RSVP details, will be available…

Community Service Component Makes UAC-CP Unique

You won’t find this on every college campus! The first week of the second semester at the UAC-CP was a bit different than some. A large number of students hadn’t been able to make it to campus due to a mudslide on the highway between Coroico and Caranavi (one must travel through Coroico to get…

All-School Mass Welcomes New Semester

The College officially started the new 2019 academic year with a special all-school mass today. The mass on Campus Leahy, celebrated by UAC-CP president Msgr. Juan Vargas, welcomed 735 young men and women who registered for classes and thesis work for the first semester of 2019. Although the first day of classes was February 4,…

External Relations Coordinator Organizes Visits and Volunteers

CPF is happy to introduce Rubén Mamani, the new on-site External Relations Coordinator.Rubén started his role at the UAC-CP in January 2019. CPF Executive Director, Hugh Smeltekop, is optimistic about what CPF will be able to accomplish with Rubén in the position. Rubén, who was born and raised in Bolivia’s capital city of La Paz,…

University of St. Thomas’ VISION Program Visits College

A 12-member team from the University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, MN, visited the UAC-CP January 14 – 25, 2019, for the third year in a row as part of UST’s VISION program. VISION organizes domestic and international service and cultural immersion trips during J-term and spring break. According to UST’s Office for Service and Social…

College Receives Visit from EWB of Denmark

The College received a visit from two representatives of Engineers Without Borders (EWB) from Denmark. Brent Michael Nielsen, Chairman of EWB-Denmark, and Paul Erik Hansen, professor emeritus in the Department of Science and Environment at Roskilde University, represented EWB at the College. The objective of the visit was to finalize the project “Analysis and Characterization…

Agronomy Graduate Interviewed for Article on Threat to Beekeeping

One of the UAC-CP’s very first Agronomy graduates Rene Villca (’01) was featured in an article in Bolivia’s daily independent newspaper Página Siete on December 6. In the article, Villca, who works as the Coordinator of a Beekeeping Project for the Municipality of Coroico, explained how climate change, the use of pesticides on coca crops,…

National Newspaper Features UAC-CP’s Work in Organic Production

The College received special mention in an article published in La Razón–a leading national newspaper in Bolivia. While the focus of the article was on Catholic University of Bolivia’s (UCB) work to develop an all-organic fungicide to combat a common fungus that attacks coffee crops in Yungas, the article also gave specific mention to the…