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Danielle Rocheleau Salaz, Executive Director of the Center for Asian Studies (CAS), has been elected Chair of the Cultures and Languages Across the Curriculum (CLAC) Consortium, a professional organization supporting faculty and higher education institutions in integrating languages and cultures across various academic disciplines.

Salaz’s election follows CAS’s participation in the 2024 CLAC Conference, themed “Innovative Approaches to Support CLAC Programs: Leveraging Institutional and Community Strengths,” held at the University of Utah on October 25-26, 2024. Salaz, alongside CAS CLAC Coordinator Hannah Palustre, also presented a session titled “Positioning CLAC as an Internationalization Initiative at CU 51��ý,” which highlighted how CLAC could be adopted and adapted by various campus units to support the university’s internationalization efforts.

CAS established the CLAC program at CU 51��ý in 2017 with support from the College of Arts and Sciences Undergraduate Education Development Program and has since worked with 11 faculty members to develop 17 one-credit CLAC co-seminars. CLAC co-seminars allow students with language proficiency to access additional information about concepts and topics presented in existing Asia-related courses via Asian-language materials. 

Thanks to support from a National Resource Center grant from the U.S. Department of Education, CAS currently offers annual CLAC course development grants to encourage faculty to create co-seminars that complement their primary content courses.