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 | Damian Bacich | San Jose |
Vice President | Darci Strother | San Marcos |
Secretary-Treasurer | Emily Clark | Sonoma |
Northern Representative | Natalie Muñoz | Fresno |
Southern Representative | Ivonne Heinze-Balcazar | Dominguez Hills |
CLTA Representative | Yoshiko Saito-Abbott | Monterey Bay |
Past Presidents | Sandra Pérez Brian Castronovo Edith Benkov | Fullerton Northridge San Diego |
Ex-officio | Leo Van Cleve | Chancellor’s Office |

CONSTITUTION
Resolutions and Resources
World Languages Council Members
- CSU Bakersfield: Steven Gamboa (chair), Maryann Parada, Gladys Gilliam
- CSU Channel Islands ~ Stephen Clark (chair) & Antonio Jiménez Jiménez (chair)
- CSU Chico ~ Christine Goulding (chair) & Rony Garrido
- CSU Dominguez Hills ~ Ivonne Heinze-Balcazar (chair) & Michael Galant
- CSU East Bay ~ Meiling Wu (chair), Gabriela Diaz-Davalos, Monique Manopoulos
- CSU Fresno ~ Natalie Muñoz (chair) & Kristi Eastin
- CSU Fullerton ~ Nathan Carr (chair), Jinghui Liu, Montserrat Fuente-Camacho
- Humboldt State University ~ Matthew Dean (chair) & Daniela Cerbino
- CSU Long Beach ~ Aparna Nayak (chair), Ruixi Ai, Bonnie Gasior; Barbara Kim (chair, Asian/Asian Am. Studies) & Kiyomi Chinen
- CSU Los Angeles ~ Namhee Lee (Chair) & Marina Cuzovic-Severn
- Maritime Academy ~ Colin Dewey
- CSU Monterey Bay ~ Shigeko Sekine (chair) & Yoshiko Saito-Abbott
- CSU Northridge ~ Adrian Perez-Boluda (chair) & Svetlana Tyutina
- Cal Poly Pomona ~ Isabel Bustamante-Lopez (chair) & Amalia Llombart
- CSU Sacramento ~ Curtis Smith (chair), Edward Baranowski, & Maria Mayberry
- CSU San Bernardino ~ George Thomas (chair) & Carmen Jany
- San Diego State University ~ Clarissa Cló (chair, European Studies), Alda Blanco (chair, Spanish and Portuguese), Alfredo Urzúa Beltrán (Spanish), Mat Schulze (director, SDSU-LARC) (European Studies, Linguistics, Spanish, LARC)
- San Francisco State University ~ Charles Egan (chair) & Mike Hammer
- San Jose State ~ Damian Bacich (chair) & Ángel Ruiz Blanco
- Cal Poly San Luis Obispo ~ Karen Muñoz Christian (chair) & John Thompson
- CSU San Marcos ~ Silvia Rolle-Rissetto, Marion Geiger, Darci Strother
- Sonoma State University ~ Michaela Grobbel (chair), Parissa Tadrissi, Emily Clark
- CSU Stanislaus ~ Jason Winfree (chair) & Teresa Bargetto (Director)
Recent News
- World Languages Council Meeting Spring 2023
- World Languages Council Meeting Fall 2021 on September 24, 2021
- Statement in Support of AAPI Communities
- Virtual Spring World Languages Council Meeting on March 5th, 2021
- World Languages Council Meeting Fall 2020 to be held virtually on October 9, 2020!
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