Tag: Spanish
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UW-Green Bay offers new English-to-Spanish certificate program | Iron Mountain Daily News
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GREEN BAY, Wis. — Professional translators are in demand within the region to meet the needs of the Spanish-speaking population in northeast Wisconsin. Recognizing this need, the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay has launched a new English-to-Spanish Noncredit Certificate program, including an American Translators Association exam prep boot camp. This program is designed to equip bilingual…
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Rising in Two Languages
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¿Hablas español? That’s good news! Not just because you can converse with over 580 million Spanish speakers worldwide, but also because fluency in a second language can add real value to virtually any degree. “Helping my parents navigate daily life in English made me realize the power of being bilingual.” Karen Navarro and Kateri Estrella,…
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State Language Access Initiatives Are Helping to Serve an Increasingly Diverse Workforce and Aging Population – PHI
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Immigrants have long been critical to the direct care workforce and to ensure older adults and people with disabilities receive quality care; in fact, at least 27 percent of our country’s direct care workers are immigrants (up from 21 percent in 2011). The importance of immigrant direct care workers to meeting our country’s long-term care…
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Video: See more about the Study Abroad in Spain program
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Grace Stubb graduated with a Nursing major and Spanish minor at UW-Green Bay. Grace studied Spanish in Spain to be able to communicate with patients in their primary language. She landed her dream job and is now a neonatal intensive care unit nurse at St. Vincent Children’s Hospital in Green Bay. https://www.uwgb.edu/study-abroad Transcript: UW-Green Bay…
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Helping teachers and support staff gain cultural competence spurs ‘Spanish for Educators’
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In response to a need in the Marinette area community, UW-Green Bay, Marinette Campus has created a course specifically for educators and support staff to gain cultural competence in Spanish. Designed for teachers and personnel who interact with Spanish-speaking students and their families, the six-week virtual course will provide familiarization with simple Spanish words for everyday…
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UW-Green Bay’s Cindy L. Johnson named ‘most influential’ Latina
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Cindy Lopez Johnson ’13, a multicultural advisor at UW-Green Bay, has been named to the list of “The 39 Most Influential Latinos in Wisconsin, Part 5.” Johnson provided individualized support for first-generation, limited-income college students through academic advising, student success and life skills development, career planning, financial literacy, and financial aid & scholarship assistance. Johnson…