California State University World Languages Council

MISSION OF THE WORLD LANGUAGES COUNCIL
- To provide vision and leadership for the teaching of languages other than English and their literatures and cultures
- To promote quality in the teaching of languages other than English and their literatures and cultures
- To support the diversity of language programs across the CSU
- To encourage research and scholarship in language, literature and culture
- To share expertise among the CSU community
- To promote collaborative endeavors within the CSU community and beyond
- To promote internationalization of the curriculum
Executive Council
| President | Curtis Smith | Sacramento |
| Vice President | Adrián Pérez Boluda | Northridge |
| Secretary-Treasurer | Gabriela Díaz-Dávalos | East Bay |
| Northern Representative | Karen Muñoz-Christian | San Luis Obispo |
| Southern Representative | George Thomas | San Bernardino |
| CLTA Representative | Yoshiko Saito-Abbott | Monterey Bay |
| Past Presidents | Damian Bacich Sandra Pérez Dominique Van Hooff Edith Benkov | San José Fullerton San José San Diego |
| Ex-officio | Jaishankar Raman | Chancellor’s Office |

CONSTITUTION
Resolutions and Resources
World Languages Council Members
- CSU Bakersfield: William Flores (chair) & Lena Taub Robles
- CSU Channel Islands: Javier González (chair)
- CSU Chico ~ Christine Goulding (chair) & Hannah Burdette
- CSU Dominguez Hills ~ Benito Gómez (chair) & Melissa González-Contreras
- CSU East Bay ~ Dennis Chester (chair) Meiling Wu & Gabriela Díaz-Dávalos
- CSU Fresno ~ Gloria Medina-Sanchi (chair) & Paula Sanmartín
- CSU Fullerton ~ Eric Carbajal (chair) Hiromi Tobaru
- Humboldt State University ~ Matthew Dean (chair) & Joseph Diémé
- CSU Long Beach ~ Aparna Nayak (chair), Jeannette Acevedo Rivera, Barbara Kim (chair, Asian/Asian Am. Studies) & Nana Suzumura-Smith
- CSU Los Angeles ~ Namhee Lee (Chair) & Marina Cuzovic-Severn
- CSU Monterey Bay ~ Dustin Wright (chair) & Yoshiko Saito-Abbott
- CSU Northridge ~ Adrian Perez-Boluda (chair) & Drake Langford
- CSU Sacramento ~ Curtis Smith (chair) & Viola Ardeni
- Cal Poly Pomona ~ Kent Dickson (chair) & Isabel Bustamante
- CSU San Bernardino ~ George Thomas (chair) & Carmen Dagostino
- San Diego State University ~ Clarissa Cló (chair, European Studies), Ricardo Vasconcelos (chair, Spanish and Portuguese), Alfredo Urzúa Beltrán (Spanish), Mat Schulze (director, SDSU-LARC) (European Studies, Linguistics, Spanish, LARC)
- San Francisco State University ~ Frederik Green (chair) & Mike Hammer
- San Jose State ~ Romey Sabalius (chair) Damian Bacich & Ángel Ruíz Blanco
- Cal Poly San Luis Obispo ~ Silvia Marijuan (chair) & Karen Muñoz Christian
- CSU San Marcos ~ Silvia Rolle-Rissetto (chair), Marion Geiger, Darci Strother
- Sonoma State University ~ Daniel Malpica (chair), Emily Clark
- CSU Stanislaus ~ Teresa Bargetto (chair)
Recent News
- Fall 2024 CSU World Languages Council Meeting
- WLC AB928 Response Letter August 30, 2022
- Letter in Support of Language Programs at WVU
- Fall 2023 Meeting of CSU WLC
- World Languages Council Meeting Spring 2023
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