The LASC provides a wide range of services for students interested in understanding and exploring Latin America and the Caribbean. Those resources include classes, language instruction, research, internships and study abroad opportunites.

Dr. Saúl Sosnowski
Director
0128-B Holzapfel Hall
College Park, MD 20742
(301) 405-4772

See also:

Resources for Latino Parents
(Fuentes de Informacion a su Alcance: Orientacion para Padres Latinos)

An excellent source of general information for Spanish speaking parents about the Washington, D.C. area, University of Maryland, guides to success in K-12 studies, etc. (In Spanish)

Community Outreach Program

The Community Outreach Program is a joint effort by Latin American Studies Center in association with the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Maryland. Its purpose is to inform and attract US Latinos in the greater Washington, D.C. and Baltimore metropolitan area to the University of Maryland, College Park.

Carmen Román
Community Outreach Coordinator
Department of Spanish and Portugese
Jiménez Hall 2211
College Park, MD 20742
(301)-405-6453

Department of Spanish and Portugese

The Center for Heritage Resource Studies was established in 2000 to bring scholars and practitioners together to support a comprehensive approach to the study of heritage. Center faculty and affiliates are leaders in the field of heritage studies, working at local, national, and international levels. The Center'activities are formulated in a way that can be readily applied by those responsible for the management of historic, cultural, and environmental resources. In this manner, the Center aims to contribute substantially to an increased awareness of the need for responsible heritage development.  The Center has four primary program areas to help achieve these goals:  debate forum, research, education, and public outreach. One project, for example, focuses on the Hispanic immigrant communities in Montgomery and Prince Georges Counties.

Paul A. Shackel
Director and professor of Anthropology
Woods Hall
(301)-405-1422

The Consortium is an association of academic units and individual faculty on the University of Maryland campus whose mission is to promote, advance, and conduct research, scholarship, and faculty development that examines the intersections of race, gender, and ethnicity with other dimensions of difference. Recent research has included a look at the health and social well being of low income (in this case Latino) women, children and families.

Dr. Bonnie Thornton Dill
Director
2103 Tawes Fine Arts Building
(301) 405-2931

Latino Student Services and Community Advocacy promotes student development and campus participation for Latino students. We are committed to the creation and maintenance of a campus environment where Latino identity and issues are affirmed and supported. We are committed to helping students to succeed at the University through opportunities for personal growth, organizational involvement and community development.

Hugo Najera
Coordinator for Latino and Native American Student Involvement and Community Advocacy
0110 Stamp Student Union
University of Maryland, College Park
College Park, MD 20742
Tel. 301-314-5822
Fax: 301-314-9634
hnajera@umd.edu

The Latino Student Union provides students a place to express Latino culture at the University of Maryland. The LSU serves as a home away from home to students who may feel lost in a campus as large as this one at College Park. Students are given the opportunity to meet other Latinos, and form lasting friendships as well as get a sense of familia.

LSU OFFICE
Latino Student Union
3101 Stamp Student Union
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742
(301) 314-8327

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