Alumni
CENTRO LINCOLN UNIVERSITY COLLEGE (C–LUC)
ALUMNI GROUP
MISSION STATEMENT
Believing in the value of each individual and the importance of enduring relationships, Centro Lincoln University College Alumni Group focuses on the nurturing, evelopment and support of its university college program, its traditions, its lifelong relationships and its alumni worldwide. Based on common interests, cooperation, spirit of loyalty, fellowship and voluntarism, C-LUC Alumni Group will constantly develop an information database for the establishment of connections among its alumni as one of its most important features. This will validate each student’s experience during and after their stay at C-LUC and nurture a sense of participation, belonging and empowerment. Other aspects of this Alumni Group include creating potential job opportunities for its members; endorsing leadership; promoting other students to be mentors of future students who wish to study at the university in which they completed their studies; raising scholarship funds; encouraging community service and donations; and fostering student recruitment for the university. We work to fulfill this mission through a variety of original programs, communications, activities, mentoring, recommendations, events and services focused on alumni, students as future alumni, friends and supporters of C-LUC.
TIMELINE OF THE HISTORY OF CENTRO LINCOLN UNIVERSITY COLLEGE
- August 1992 – December 1997 - Accreditation through Broward Community College in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
- March 1998 – December 2000 - Accreditation through Lynn University in Boca Ratón, Florida.
- August 2000 – Current Day - Accreditation through the Universidad Nacional de San Martín (UNSAM) in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
GRADUATES OF C-LUC-UNSAM
Licenciatura en Humanidades, Major in Cultural Studies
Ana Margarita Gayoso – December 2004
Leandro Venier – July 2007
Paloma Rodriguez Melguizo – December 2007
Anne Gustavsson – December 2009
Mariano Gaudiosi – December 2009
Licenciatura en Humanidades, Major in Policy Studies
Ioulia Poloustroueva – July 2005
Maximiliano Jorge – July 2005
Juan Pablo Casañas Onganía – December 2005
Anabella Cavazza – December 2005
Catalina Iribarne – December 2005
Sebastián Minckas – December 2006
Lucía Stellatelli – December 2008
Bachillerato Universitario en Artes Liberales
Cecilia Begher – December 2004
Victoria Gibertoni – July 2005
Marcelo Dujovne – July 2007
Natalie Guiscardo – July 2008
Diplomatura en Artes Liberales
Jessica Prada – July 2002
Sofía Baclini – December 2005
Maria Labandeira – December 2006
Nicolás Furfaro – December 2007
Melanie Gliksberg – December 2007
Federico Sinclair – December 2009
A Letter from an Alumnus - A crossroads for nomads…
The first time I came to Argentina I was sixteen years old. I was not an inexperienced traveler for my years, but I had never lived outside of the United States, and I had certainly never traveled abroad alone. It was at this point in my life that the young adventurer in me awoke, and I decided that a student exchange was the thing for me.
I was sponsored by the Rotary Club from my home town in Wyoming to spend a year living in Argentina, a place I had heard of but knew next to nothing about. Of all the cities and towns in the country, Rotary decided that I was to spend that life-changing year in the small, rural town of 9 de julio in provincia. Every time I tell an Argentine that I lived in 9 de julio for a year they unfailingly respond, “a 9 de julio te mandaron?! Que hiciste ahi por un año?”, but I didn’t know the difference, and it was without question the best year of my life.
I can’t say it was the actual town of 9 de julio that made me want to return to Argentina after I was sent sobbing and broken-hearted on a plane back to my home country. I had met the most incredible people, visited the most scenic of places, experienced la noche argentina and domingos en el campo. I had been wooed by dulce de leche and empanadas, fallen in love with the witty idioms of castellano, and had also managed to engancharme with an Argentine boy. I had to go back.
In my search for a way of returning to what I now considered to be my “second-home”, I stumbled upon the web page for Centro Lincoln University College (C-LUC), a university program where the language of instruction was in English in La Lucila, Buenos Aires. I had returned from my exchange to finish my senior year of high school in the U.S., and now, having graduated, it was time to start college. I had no idea what I wanted to pursue academically, and I was not at all enthused about the idea of having to pay a fortune to attend a university in the U.S. – and I wanted to be in Argentina.
So in August of 2007 I started my college education at C-LUC. Over the past two and a half years I have reaped the benefits of studying in an immensely diverse environment, an experience I feel is incomparable to the average college setting and that has proven overwhelmingly motivational for personal goals. I have met some of my best friends, and also some of the most interesting people with the most intriguing stories to tell. I have had the opportunity of receiving instruction from experienced and international teaching staff, and of sitting in a classroom with a student from Kuwait on my right side and a student from Denmark on my left side. I’m pretty sure that this type of international setting is not a reality for most college students, but at C-LUC it is an everyday occurrence from which we as students gain unparalleled perspective.
I came to C-LUC with no direction and no idea what to expect. I admit that my initial decision to come here was 99% heart and 1% head, but I have been reassured time and time again that I couldn’t have made a better choice. What I have found C-LUC to be is a type of crossroads for students, students like me, nómadas, stopping for a short time before continuing their journey through life a little better off, and with their eyes open a little wider than they were before.
Rebecca Marcott joined C-LUC in August 2007 and left in December 2009 to finish her Bachelor`s Degree at the University of Wyoming, where she is from originally.