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    1. 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.

      A group of college students posing for a selfie atop a German building
    2. 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.

      A group of students pose for a group photo holding German, Swiss, and Austrian flags
    3. 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.

      Five college students pose in front of a decorated booth for the German Club
    4. 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

      A group of college students pose on a peak in the German Alps
    5. 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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    6. 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

      Exterior of Conrad J. Schmitt Hall on the campus of Montclair State University
    7. 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

      A group of college students and professors pose in front of Ellis Island
    8. 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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    9. Student Success Stories

      Student of German Wins Full Ride to Middlebury’s Prestigious German Immersion Summer Program and More

      Bianca Isabella Zarate Gonzalez was recently awarded a full scholarship to the Middlebury German Language School, a 7-week program that is

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    10. Student Success Stories

      German Minor Emily Wong Wins 2023-2024 Fulbright to Germany

      German Minor Emily Wong has been awarded a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship to teach in Bavaria, Germany for the 2023-2024 academic

      A woman holds a violin and smiles at the camera