January 20, 2005: Headlines: COS - Brazil: Nursing: Hispanic Issues: Milwaukee Journal Sentine: Brazil RPCV Claudette McShane, director of international programs at Carroll, said those in the nursing profession often suffer from the same multicultural deficiencies as others. "What better way to handle that than, `Let's just bring in the people who already have the language and culture?' " she said. "That's huge for us."
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January 20, 2005: Headlines: COS - Brazil: Nursing: Hispanic Issues: Milwaukee Journal Sentine: Brazil RPCV Claudette McShane, director of international programs at Carroll, said those in the nursing profession often suffer from the same multicultural deficiencies as others. "What better way to handle that than, `Let's just bring in the people who already have the language and culture?' " she said. "That's huge for us."
Brazil RPCV Claudette McShane, director of international programs at Carroll, said those in the nursing profession often suffer from the same multicultural deficiencies as others. "What better way to handle that than, `Let's just bring in the people who already have the language and culture?' " she said. "That's huge for us."
Brazil RPCV Claudette McShane, director of international programs at Carroll, said those in the nursing profession often suffer from the same multicultural deficiencies as others. "What better way to handle that than, `Let's just bring in the people who already have the language and culture?' " she said. "That's huge for us."
Learning and Education: Carroll program expands students' cultural horizons; school offers insights into Latino culture through special training
SCOTT WILLIAMS, swilliams@journalsentinel.com, Journal Sentinel, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Wisconsin)
January 20, 2005
School offers insights into Latino culture through special training
Claudette McShane, director of international programs at Carroll, said those in the nursing profession often suffer from the same multicultural deficiencies as others.
"What better way to handle that than, `Let's just bring in the people who already have the language and culture?' " she said. "That's huge for us."
To complete the Hispanic culture minor, students must take at least 20 hours of courses such as advanced Spanish language, introduction to Latin American history and intercultural communication.
They also must study abroad for three to six weeks in Mexico, Costa Rica or Guatemala, immersing themselves in the culture to better understand their neighbors back home. The estimated $1,500 cost of the summer overseas program is deducted from a student's usual tuition cost.
Robert Black, a Spanish professor who manages the program with McShane, said even though thousands of Latinos now live in Waukesha and other areas of southeastern Wisconsin, students gain valuable experience by seeing native cultures in person.
"There are so many nuances to a culture," Black said. "Knowing these little cultural differences can make all the difference in the world."
Last summer, the college had 11 students in history, art, sociology and other majors studying abroad.
Giese, who spent six weeks in Costa Rica, said the experience gave her a deeper understanding of Latino culture than she ever could have gotten in Waukesha.
"It added the full richness of an Hispanic population," she said. "You can't get that out of a book."
Waukesha -- With dreams of becoming a physical therapist, Laci Giese is still a year away from graduation at Carroll College with a bachelor's degree in biology.
But she already has an edge on others in her field -- special training in Latino culture.
Giese is among the first students to complete a new Carroll program aimed at expanding multicultural training for future doctors, police officers and other professionals.
With a growing Latino population in the United States, Carroll officials hope to cultivate a niche by instilling in students not only a command of Spanish language but a deeper understanding of those who speak it.
The private, four-year Waukesha college also is launching a separate initiative aimed at recruiting more Latino nursing students.
Giese, 21, of Watertown, has no idea where she will find work as a physical therapist or whether she will have Latino patients. But she hopes that knowing more about Latinos will make her more marketable and more successful.
"It'll be a good background to have," she said. "I hope it will be a good segue."
Located just south of downtown Waukesha, Carroll has been offering a minor in Hispanic Health & Human Services for its 2,100 undergraduate students in liberal arts, business, education and other fields of study.
The objective was to produce future working professionals who were culturally astute enough to interact with Latino people needing medical attention, police help, social work counseling or other basic services.
In the first three years, however, fewer than 20 students signed up.
So the college last year sought and received a $120,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Education to beef up the curriculum and recruit more students.
Carroll administrators also impaneled an advisory board of community leaders, including several Latinos, to ensure that the program was promoting real cultural understanding -- so students would know, for example, why Latinas tend to bring their husbands to doctor visits and why Latinos are more accustomed to sitting in waiting rooms than making appointments in advance.
Waukesha County Circuit Judge Ralph Ramirez, who sits on the advisory board, applauded Carroll's willingness to invest in teaching Latino culture.
"They're not an ivory tower school," Ramirez said. "They're reaching out."
The college recently landed a $500,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to recruit more Latino nursing students.
Out of some 120 nursing students now, barely a handful are Latino. But with federal funding for scholarships and other recruiting tools, officials hope to attract more than two dozen within three years.
Although technically a separate program, officials view the nursing recruitment drive as part of their overall effort to promote better services for Latinos living in the United States.
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