CFU Spanish Center Faculty
The Spanish Center Faculty consists of a group of professionals who come from a wide range of Spanish-speaking countries. We also have some highly qualified non-native speakers with extensive experience traveling and studying in Spanish speaking countries. Our students enjoy the variety of accents, perspectives and teaching styles that our faculty offers.
María Bansch, an Argentine, studied education at the Universidad de Buenos Aires. She was a teacher and principal in the schools there. She has taught adults at Arapahoe Community College for the last six years.
Diego Cerón, a native of Colombia with a degree in Literature, has been a Spanish and Literature professor, as well as a teacher in the Denver Public School system. He has also collaborated with various cultural publications.
Nina Colburn lived and worked in Mexico City for over 30 years working at the U.S. Trade Office, the U.S. Embassy and other international corporations in Mexico. Nina is 100% bi-lingual and bi-cultural and brings a lifetime of experience in teaching not only the Spanish language, but also in mediating, arbitrating and solving cross-cultural issues affecting the workplace.
Maryan Gómez, a native of Venezuela, studied law at the Universidad Santa María in Caracas.
Tim Mason has a B.A. in Spanish from the University of Northern Iowa. He has been teaching Spanish since 1974. He was the recipient of the Spanish award for Outstanding Teacher of Foreign Languages in 2001 by the University of Northern Colorado.
Gina Martínez, from México, is a bilingual Kindergarten teacher in the Jefferson County Public Schools. She also teaches Mexican folk dance and flamenco.
Miguel Navarro, a native of Perú, has a B.S. in communications from the Universidad de Lima. He has taught both Spanish and music in Perú. He works as web designer for Translation Links.
Gladys Preston, from Colombia, has tutored Spanish to business professionals, and worked for ten years as a bilingual court interpreter and administrator with the Arapahoe County District Attorney's Office.
Lilia Selenke, born in Guadalajara, Jalisco, studied and worked at the Universidad de Guadalajara. Tutored adults in Spanish at the school's Centro de Estudios para Extranjeros.
Bill Weller served as Program Assistant for the CIEE Study Abroad Program at the University of Seville in Spain. He also teaches in the English Language Acquisition program with Denver Public Schools.
Upcoming
Events
Immersion Weekends
October
18-19, 2008
Summer
Intensives
July
7-Aug. 1, 2008
Online Courses
Job-specific
courses for teachers, heatlhcare,
realtors, law enforcement, fire and EMS.
Schedules
Core
classes for
June-September
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