The Consortium provides a number of initiatives and resources for local, regional and national audiences. In particular, the Outreach office collaborates with K-12 schools, post-secondary institutions, community groups, businesses and media.
To fully understand the resources that the Consortium provides, or to explore our current initiatives and potential ways to collaborate or partner with these initiatives, please visit the Outreach pages at our member institutions –
The Institute for the Study of the Americas at UNC Chapel Hill and
The Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at Duke University.
At the Institute for the Study of the Americas at UNC Chapel Hill, you will find the Film and Video Collection, with approximately 600 videos and DVD’s available, multimedia presentations, traveling exhibits, the Latino Migration Project and the Yucatec Maya Program.
At the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at Duke University, you will find information on teacher travel tours, K-12 Curriculum Resources, Teaching Units, Cultural Discovery Boxes, Teacher Book Clubs, University and Community College Summer Research Grants and Partner Schools.
To know more about these initiatives, or if you are interested in collaborating with the Consortium on any of these initiatives, please contact the Consortium Outreach Coordinator, LeAnne Disla at Duke University, 141 Franklin Center, 2204 Erwin Road, Box 90254, Durham, NC 27708. Telephone number (919) 681-3982. Email: leanne.disla@duke.edu
- The Consortium announces its 2012 competition for Summer Research Fellowships for faculty from four-year colleges, community colleges, and HBCUs to use the Duke and UNC libraries and other campus resources. The application deadline is April 2, 2012. Click here for complete guidelines and application form.
- The Consortium's Outreach Program Coordinator LeAnne Disla led a study tour for Durham Public School teachers in the Yucatan, Mexico, June 18-27, 2011. The tour is sponsored by the Duke-Durham Partnership. Click here to read about the teachers' experiences in Yucatan.
In Summer 2010 teachers from Durham's Lakewood and Burton elementary schools traveled to Guanajuato, Mexico on a tour led by the Consortium's Outreach Program Coordinator LeAnne Disla. The tour was sponsored by the Duke-Durham Partnership. Click here to view a brief video about the tour.