[NIFL-ESL:3840] Request For Large ABE Program Information

From: Blair Liddicoat (blair.liddicoat@riomail.maricopa.edu)
Date: Fri Dec 10 1999 - 20:06:42 EST


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We are a large ABE Program (over 23,000 students) in Arizona, covering
an area of over 9,200 square miles.  Most of our instructors are
part-time and teach in community locations two or three evenings or
days per week.  Our goal over the next five years is to create more
full-time or benefited positions in the program.  This will involve
consolidating
some locations into learning center environments to offer classes four
or five days/nights a week and combining decentralized teaching
locations in order to offer full-time hours to an instructor.

We would appreciate hearing from other ABE programs who have gone
through a similar restructuring process so we can implement any
steps/methods that worked for you, but also avoid any mistakes you may
have made.  Please share any relevant information on this from your
experience, including issues that we should expect to encounter.

We'd also like to hear from programs that employ large numbers of
part-time instructors and hear how you handle staff development,
communications, networking, etc.

Please respond directly to Mary.Hannaman@riomail.maricopa.edu

Thank you for the time you will take to read and respond to this.



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