Colombia

Governments of lower- and middle-income countries increasingly are turning to public-private partnerships to operate schools as an alternative to traditional public schools. Vanderbilt professors Felipe Barrera-Osorio and Andrew Dustan have received a one-year NSF grant in excess of $400,000 to lead an interdisciplinary study on the quality of these partnership schools in Bogotá, Colombia. Read More

Some 300 boxes containing the rarest and earliest portions of the J. León Helguera Collection of Colombiana, which documents centuries of Colombian history, have been acquired by Vanderbilt Libraries. Read More

Scholars interested in saving fast-disappearing slave records with digital archiving will gather at Vanderbilt's Jean and Alexander Heard Library Oct. 15-17 to compare notes. Read More

Although Granados spent most of her childhood in the U.S., she is acutely aware of the discrimination female soccer players face in her home country. She hopes the recent success of the Colombia women's team at the World Cup will change some minds. Read More

More people than surveyors expected think protection of the environment should be a priority in Latin America and the Caribbean. Read More

Renowned experts on preservation of African and Afro-descended slave records will gather at Vanderbilt Feb. 2 - 4 to launch the university's new Ecclesiastical and Secular Sources for Slave Societies digital archive and website. Read More

Quirky Colombian politician to discuss citizenship culture during talk sponsored by Center for Latin American Studies. Read More

Former Colombia presidential candidate and FARC hostage Ingrid Betancourt Guerillas belonging to the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, known as FARC, kidnapped Ingrid Betancourt as she campaigned for the Colombian presidency in 2002. She was held captive six years in Colombia’s rain forest until she was liberated in 2008… Read More