The PROFESSOR

BY DONNA CRARY

Cristobal Sartori, an associate professor and department chairman of modern languages at Indian River State College, has an inspiring message for those desiring a higher education. Part of his approach in the classroom is to help students tackle and overcome their fear of learning so a whole new world can be opened up to them.

“I’m a personal believer that everybody can be successful at college,” he says. “Why can’t college be for you? I haven’t personally met anybody who can’t. But they have to learn what they need to do in this particular situation.”

Sartori has spent his entire career instructing as a college professor and for the last decade has taught Spanish and English courses at IRSC. Currently, his classes are limited to Spanish.