University of Wisconsin Collaborative Language Program

Lauren Rosen, Director

About the Collaborative Language Program

The UW System Collaborative Language Program (CLP) was established in January of 1998 to provide critical language instruction to university campuses otherwise unable to support these offerings. It is a grant-funded program to spread the wealth of language instruction to adult learners . CLP meets three primary objectives:

1. Creating collaborative programs is of great interest to all UW institutions.
2. Technology for distance learning is now pedagogically sound and functionally feasible to support collaborative language instruction.
3. There is a clear need to focus on strategically important critical languages, primarily Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Portuguese and Russian.

While the initial focus of the program is on collaborative programming for the less commonly taught languages, the long-term goal is to look at collaborative efforts to provide support for the teaching of all languages.