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The following is an interview with Jack Jacobs, a native of Manchester, England, who volunteered to teach English at the College for the first semester of 2018. Jack reflected on his time at the UAC-CP with External Relations Coordinator Nora Harless. Nora Harless: How did you find out about the Carmen Pampa Fund’s English teaching…

For their 2018 Mission and Global Awareness Trip, the Washington, DC-based Franciscan Mission Service (FMS) facilitated a visit of short-term missioners to the College in Carmen Pampa. Led by FMS staff member Meghan Meros, the 8-day trip provided opportunities for participants to experience cross-cultural exchange and participate in pastoral theological reflection informed by Catholic Social…

Gladys Rivera discovered her love for coffee as a first-year student. Now, the 2013 UAC-CP Agronomy graduate is most often found at the College’s coffee factory, where she oversees every step to transform the beans into a morning brew. The process Gladys uses for the coffee is meticulous and thorough, yielding organic coffee that is…

What started as just a dream for UAC-CP founder Sr. Damon Nolan more than 25 years ago, is now a reality: the College is exporting coffee to the U.S. Since 2015, former UAC-CP volunteer Sidney Madsen, CPF board member Tara Nolan, and independent coffee shop owners Erik and Becky Johnson, have been working with the…

The College hosted the third edition of the international human-rights film festival ‘Bajo Nuestra Piel’ in Carmen Pampa the week of April 4-8th. The project, which was started by Simon Bongers and Ricardo Dávalos in the Bolivian city of Oruro, is intended ‘to generate a debate and reflective space on human-rights topics through the artistic…

The UAC-CP’s very first graduate–Dr. Angel Rolando Endara, PhD (Agronomy, 2001)–returned to Carmen Pampa this week with a group of colleagues, researchers and master’s degree students from the Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México. Dr. Endara, who is a researcher of forest management and conservation at the Institute of Rural and Agricultural Sciences in Mexico,…

Today the UAC-CP’s Nursing Department celebrated its 24th anniversary with a special mass, followed by a pinning, capping, and candle lighting ceremony to recognize all Nursing students–especially those who are in their final years of study. In addition to recognizing the work of the UAC-CP to educate young health care professionals, the anniversary also honors…

Adams Spanish Immersion Elementary School in St. Paul, Minnesota, is a very special place–just ask the almost 20 education students from the College in Carmen Pampa who have served as interns there since 2007. This year, two recent graduates from the UAC-CP, Maria Luz Diaz and Graciel Quino, are teaching in the school’s first and…

Print the Love, a Minnesota-based NGO with the mission of providing real-time photography for people around the world, visited Carmen Pampa March 2 – 5. Ceallaigh Anderson Smart, the organization’s founder, and two participants, Erica Hyland and Madison Krings, spent several days at the UAC-CP, visiting with students and community members in the area. Print…

Two medical specialists from Mount Pleasant Presbyterian Church (MPPC), Mt. Pleasant, S.C., spent several days this past week working with the College’s Nursing Department and the on-campus clinic. Dr. Trish Hutchinson and Leigh Brandenberg, who have traveled to Central American countries providing resources and medical expertise, were first-timers to Bolivia and to Carmen Pampa. “The most…