Institute Students, Faculty Collaborate with Local Peers in Community Solutions Lab

Three years in the making, the Gonzales Community Solutions Lab (CoLab) partners students from the Middlebury Institute and two other local higher education institutions with local nonprofits and community leaders with the goal of achieving sustainable, longer term positive impacts in the nearby city of Gonzales. Faculty members from the Institute, California State University Monterey Bay (CSUMB), and the Monterey College of Law developed the CoLab concept after identifying a need to build long lasting connections between local communities and faculty and students.