Following a decade of growth in the size and variety of Wisconsin's ethnic minority communities, a study by the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh (UW-O) indicated need for a program to train teachers and human service professionals in the culture, traditions, and values of ethnic minority groups. Under a 1-year Ethnic Heritage Grant, UW-O established a Cultural Training Center program designed to do this by combining activities of community agencies in minority communities and a university multicultural center. The basic operational plan for all training centers included: (1) an orientation and planning session for all those collaborating on the student seminar and model for dissemination; (2) an all-day 2-week student seminar on minority culture, traditions, and values; (3) a 1 to 10 week all-day field experience for students in minority communities with minority agencies and schools, to help them understand the cultural glue that holds minority communities together; (4) a 2-day cultural retreat in which students are taken to an isolated campsite and totally immersed in minority culture(s); and (5) final on-campus appraisal sessions in which students begin to process what they have learned about themselves and others and plan how to use this ethnic learning in their professional lives. (CM)