The building has full access to the campus Ethernet, providing CESL students the opportunity to use the Internet and its applications. Has its own building recognized by the U.S. Registry of Historic Places for its intrinsic value and southwestern architectural beauty. Its lecture hall and classroom facilities have been renovated and equipped with computer, audio and video-based presentation systems. Staffs, operates and administers a special collection library of 3000 volumes and periodicals on ESL methodologies, curriculum development, program management and instruction. Maintains active instructional use of video tape filming and production in and out of the classroom at all levels.
Special programs can be video-taped for sponsor archival use.
With its 30-year history and an extensive network of relationships throughout the university, Tucson and regional communities, CESL. . . Maintains a roster of distinguished University of Arizona faculty who provide its students guest lectures on many topics relating to American cultural studies and the American Experience. Provides linkage opportunities with the Tohono O'odham Indians, through whom students experience Native American culture, commercial enterprise and handicraft. Exposes students to the Hispanic heritage of the area as seen and experienced through daily life on campus and in the community. Works with small business enterprise and service institutions in Tucson to provide occasions for students to experience entrepreneurship in the desert southwest.