[NIFL-4EFF:2288] RE: Task Force Named for CAAL Community College Project

From: Bonnie Odiorne (bodiorne@c4k.org)
Date: Tue Feb 11 2003 - 15:54:05 EST


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I would also add to Marti Lane's post other not-for-profit education
providers via the Department of Labor (mostly TFA clients) and the Workforce
Investment Act. Although given the threats to adult education in the
language of the current resolution before the House, the "equitable"
application process for these grants may disappear, as well as "equitable"
treatment of clients, and the unemployed or underemployed not on Welfare...
Best regards,
Bonnie Odiorne, Ph.D.
Adult Educator and Program Facilitator
ABE, ESL, French, Employment, Technology

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From: nifl-4eff@nifl.gov [mailto:nifl-4eff@nifl.gov]On Behalf Of Martha
A. Lane
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College Project


Colleagues,
I think this task force will provide valuable information to the field.  I
sincerely hope that it will also cover helping community colleges discover
what volunteer-based literacy projects in their communities are already
doing.  We, too, provide ABE services for many people.  In fact, many
literacy and ESL students would not get into community college systems
without the services and encouragement provided by local, volunteer-based
literacy programs.

Marti Lane, President
Association of Florida Laubach Organizations

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TASK FORCE NAMED FOR COMMUNITY COLLEGE PROJECT


NEWS RELEASE - February 11, 2003 - The Council for Advancement of
Adult Literacy (CAAL) today announced the task force membership for
its recently-launched community college project.  That project is
part of CAAL's program to help develop state-level resources and
foster effective state policy development and planning in adult
education and literacy.  "Community colleges provide ABE services for
millions of adults now," noted CAAL president Gail Spangenberg, "but
the links between their services and between community colleges and
other service-providing institutions in the adult literacy system are
weak or poorly understood.  CAAL hopes to increase awareness of what
the colleges are already doing and to provide guidance, as
appropriate, on ways to strengthen their role."  The task force will
meet 4-5 times during the 1.5-year life of the project. Several
papers will be commissioned and published by CAAL including a final
task force report with analysis and recommendations. Start-up funding
has been provided by the Nellie Mae Foundation, Verizon, and
McGraw-Hill.  Dr. Forrest P. Chisman, CAAL Vice President for Special
Projects, will direct the project.

In addition to Dr. Chisman, the task force is comprised of:

Byron McClenney (Chair)
(American Association of Community Colleges representative)
President
Kingsborough Community College
City University of New York
Brooklyn, New York

Robert Bickerton
Director, Adult Basic Education
State Department of Education
Malden, Massachusetts

Hunter Boylan
Director
National Center for Developmental Education
Reich College of Education
Appalachian State University
Boone, North Carolina

JoAnn (Jodi) Crandall
Professor of Education &
Director, Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program in Language, Literacy, and
Culture
University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC)
Baltimore, Maryland

Gerardo de los Santos
Vice President for Advancement
League for Innovation in Community Colleges
Phoenix, Arizona

Sarah Hawker
Vice President
Workforce Development and Adult Education
Illinois Community College Board
Springfield, Illinois

Lennox McClendon
Executive Director
National Adult Education Professional Development Consortium
Washington, D.C.

Patricia Rickard
Director,
Comprehensive Adult Student Assessment System (CASAS)
San Diego, California

Sharlene Walker
Director
Adult Basic Skills and Family Literacy Unit
Department of Community Colleges and Workforce Development
Salem, Oregon

Ex officio:
Sandra Baxter
Interim Director
National Institute for Literacy
Washington, D.C.



Council for Advancement of Adult Literacy
1221 Avenue of the Americas - 50th Floor
New York, NY 10020
Phone 212-512-2363
e-mail: bheitner@caalusa.org
http://www.caalusa.org

Washington Office:
(Forrest Chisman)
Phone 410-643-0135
Fax: 410-643-0137
e-mail: forrest@crosslink.net



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