The Cape Verde Study Abroad program was a joint program between Rhode Island College and the University of Rhode Island. The Summer Seminar in Cape Verde took place in 1997 and 1998 as part of a joint program between the University of Rhode Island and Rhode Island College. Undergraduate and graduate students participated alongside professionals in a one-week preparatory session on RIC’s Providence campus, examining Cape Verde through lectures, primary source materials, and classwork, before visiting Cape Verde for a field experience of up to one month. Participants visited Praia, Mindelo, and Ribeira Grande, participated in field research and field lectures, and completed a term project or paper as part of the program.
Records include student essays, field reports, project reports, correspondence, bibliographies, course readings, program books, conference summaries, brochures, pamphlets, speeches, meeting minutes, academic publications, as well as ephemera and materials collected during summer seminars abroad.
Researchers are advised to contact Rhode Island College Special Collections for questions regarding permissions to reproduce, distribute, or otherwise publish material from this collection. Although Rhode Island College has physical ownership of the collection, it does not necessarily hold literary rights. It is the researcher's responsibility to determine the owners of the literary rights and to obtain any necessary permissions from them.
The collection is open for research.
Cape Verde Study Abroad Program records, CA-0137, Special Collections, James P. Adams Library, Rhode Island College.
The collection is loosely arranged by topic.
The collection was donated in 1997 by Rhode Island College professors Dr. Richard Lobban and Dr. João M. Monteiro. Additions to the collection were made by the Summer Study Abroad Program and Barbara M. Burgo in 1998 and 1999, with additional donations made after.
Records had previously been placed in folders, labeled, and boxed without a finding aid or inventory. In 2025, Special Collections intern Adrienn Mendonca-Jones, under the supervision of Digital Archivist and Special Collections Librarian Veronica L. Denison, refoldered and condensed the collection while preserving the original order. At that time, slight changes to the folder order were made to collocate similar subjects in the records, duplicative materials were removed, and a collection description was created in accordance with current archival standards.
Materials from this collection have not been digitized and are not available online.