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From: Cynthia Shermeyer <cesherm@UDel.Edu>
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Subject: [NIFL-WORKPLACE:3751] Re: Workplace Literacy at Harvard
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It is exciting to hear about Harvard and other universities and what
they are doing in offering programs to employees. Here at the
University of Delaware in Newark, Delaware, we are celebrating our
fourteenth year of having a same type of program as the one described at
Harvard. For the past four years I have had the pleasure of running our
program, the Reading Improvement Program which also functions out of
the employee training/ Human Resources Department here at the
University. The program was first designed to focus on literacy skills,
but in the past four years we have grown to encompass beginning computer
literacy, ESOL, GED Preparation - you name it! While not as on as large
a scale as Harvard, the program continues to blossom. Recently, the
program has aligned itself with state standards and goals. This is
significant considering the program is a non-state funded program. This
alignment allows the program to work with the state and the clients to
be involved in state recognition of their skills; applying for a
Certificate of Educational Attainment as various objectives are met on
the way to receiving a GED.
I hope more of our Universities will realize that there is a great need
out there to offer the benefits of education to their employees. The
individuals I work with are not just employees, they are people with
goals, dreams and difficulties. They have taught me so much more in my
four years at Delaware than I have probably taught them. My son
recently asked me who are some heroes, I told him that the people that
Mommy teaches in her classes at the University are true heroes!
Thank you!
Cynthia E. Shermeyer
Coordinator, Reading Improvement Program, University of Delaware
Heidi Watson wrote:
>
> This is a crosspost from the NLA List. H.
>
> NCSALL has been helping Harvard University's Center for Training and
> Development (our employee training office) to develop an ABE, ESOL,
> GED, and vocational skill training program for workers in the
> University's lowest-paid jobs. NCSALL is proud that our host
> institution is supporting this workplace literacy program. The
> "Bridge to Learning and Literacy Program" is supported with Harvard's
> own funds. In the 1999-2000 academic year, 44 employees participated
> in a pilot effort focused on ESOL. This year 145 employees will
> participate in ESOL, literacy, GED and basic computer skills courses.
> The Director of the Bridge program is Carol Kolenik, who was an ABE
> teacher in Boston and an ESOL teacher in Viet Nam before coming to
> Harvard.
>
> If you would like to learn more about this program, go to:
>
> http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2000/09.28/index.html
>
> and then scroll down to "Literacy Program at Harvard" and there are
> four articles there.
>
> John Comings, NCSALL
>
> ----------------------------------------
> John Comings Phone: 617.496.0516
> NCSALL -- Nichols House Fax: 617.495.4811
> 7 Appian Way Email: John_Comings@harvard.edu
> Graduate School of Education Web: http://gseweb.harvard.edu/~ncsall
> Harvard University
> Cambridge MA 02138
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