Denise Caterinacci, Senior Instructor of Italian, gave the talk “Collaboration is Not a Class Act” at the 15th annual University of Alabama Languages Conference, Tuscaloosa, Alabama February 7 & 8, 2025. This year’s conference was titled “Beyond Borders”. The talk was one of three in the panel moderated by Ali Fuad Selvi, Assistant Professor, TESOL and Applied Linguistics, Department of English, University of Alabama. There were twenty-four panels of three or more presentations held during the two days.