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Student Success Stories
Thirteen Students Return from Montclair in Munich and Berlin 2026
A group of thirteen Montclair students and their instructor, Thomas Herold, just returned from Germany, where they spent twelve days in Munich, Nuremberg, and Berlin, visiting memorials, museums, and historical sites dealing with Germany’s Nazi past and contemporary German post-Holocaust society.
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Student Success Stories
Goethe-Institut Representatives Visit Montclair’s SPARK for German Teaching Lab
For the first time since the establishment of Montclair’s SPARK for German Teaching Lab, guests from the New York City Goethe-Institut paid the lab a visit, observing the 12 Montclair students and their faculty mentor Pascale LaFountain as the group facilitated an all-German performance of “Die Wichtelmänner,” or “The Shoemaker and His Elves,” a classic German fairy tale first featured in the 1812 Kinder- und Hausmärchen by the Brothers Grimm.
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Event Highlights
German Club Shares Gummy Bears, Flags, and Motivational Messages at Montclair’s World’s Fair Day
For the second year in a row, Montclair’s lively German Club hosted a table at Montclair’s annual World’s Fair Day, a festival celebrating the cultural diversity that defines Montclair’s campus population.
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Featured News
Record Number of Montclair Students Study in Germany in Summer 2025
For the third summer in a row, a cohort of Montclair students spent the month of August as visiting students studying German language at
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Awards & Accolades
Pascale LaFountain Named 2025 Outstanding Post-Secondary German Educator of the Year
Dr. Pascale LaFountain, Associate Professor of German and French at Montclair since 2011, has been named as the 2025 Post-Secondary
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Awards & Accolades
Montclair Graduates Win Fulbright Germany and Fulbright Austria Travel Grants
This September, as some German majors and minors enter graduate school and others work in such fields as international admissions
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Event Highlights
Students of German Visit Devils, Ellis Island, Döner Shop and More
While many students of German at Montclair are aim to study abroad and open the door to international career opportunities, trips to Europe
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Student Success Stories
Alli Kodila (German and Linguistics, ’24) Wins Fulbright Austria Teaching Assistantship
Alli Kodila (German and Linguistics, 2024) has won a prestigious Fulbright Austria United States Teaching Assistantship (USTA) for the 2024
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Student Success Stories
Liréna Engelsbel Selected for Competitive German Sommerakademie Trip to Dresden
With parents from the Soviet Union and The Netherlands and having spent the first 12 years of their life in The Netherlands, Liréna
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Student Success Stories
Two of Seven German National Honor Society Winners Hail from Montclair
Montclair’s German program has had an active chapter of the Delta Phi Alpha national German Honor Society since 2019 and has been recognized
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