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For the second year in a row, students from the University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, Minnesota, visited the College for two weeks this month as part of their VISION J-term course facilitated by UST’s Office for Service and Social Justice Department. VISION provides global community building opportunities for St. Thomas students to encounter and…

CPF Executive Director Hugh Smeltekop spent the month of January at the College in Carmen Pampa. The objective of his trip was multi-faceted: accompany the Engineers Without Borders volunteers who came to work on the water system, meet with the team implementing the Inter-American Development Bank grant to launch an entrepreneurship program and business institute…

January saw the arrival of three engineering students from Fairfield University, Fairfield, Connecticut, along with Dr. Bruce Berdanier, Dean of Fairfield’s School of Engineering. For two of the students, it was their first time out of the United States. For all of them, it was their first Engineers Without Borders trip. Dr. Berdanier started the…

The UAC-CP hosted a graduation ceremony on December 17, 2017, for graduates of the College’s two post-graduate certificate programs. The College awarded 15 certificates of completion to participants in the Coffee and Cocoa program and 50 certificates of completion to participants in the Higher Education Formation program. Both of the continuing education programs, which are…

Carmen Pampa Fund is saddened to share the news that Fr. Tom Garvey, a founding member of the College and Carmen Pampa Fund, passed away on Saturday, December 16th from complications of Alzheimer’s. Fr. Tom, affectionately called “Garv” by his friends, served for many years as a priest in the Twin Cities metro. His work…