Return-Path: <nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id h1CCstP16271; Wed, 12 Feb 2003 07:54:55 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 07:54:55 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <p05100304ba6ff1d4105d@[209.246.92.174]> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: Gail Spangenberg <gspangenberg@caalusa.org> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-ESL:8520] Re: [NIFL-4EFF:2289] RE: Task Force Named for CAAL Community Coll X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Status: O Content-Length: 7061 Lines: 194 Friends, I personally want to assure you that CAAL itself is committed to seeing that voluntary organizations, CBOS, and other key components of the provider system are properly protected and represented in this exercise. In fact, one of the motivating forces for the founding of CAAL was my belief that voluntary organizations/CBOs at the local level are getting short shrift in the application of current law, and in the allocation of funds whether from state or federal sources. This despite the fact that they are the key players when it comes to providing service to adults at the lowest proficiency levels. Community colleges are one of many resources -- libraries are another -- that are available as service providers to the adult education and literacy system, and what CAAL means to do is look for ways that the colleges and the adult education and literacy system can do a better job, on their own and together, in service to adult literacy. We believe both parties to the equation stand to benefit. You will note that we have been careful on the task force to select people who can well represent the interests of voluntary and other ABE groups. I hope that anyone who wants to share their views and concerns and hopes with the project study director, Forrest Chisman, will do so. Feel free to e-mail him at forrest@crosslink.net. You will appreciate that he will not have time for listserv discoursing, but I know that he will welcome hearing from any interested parties directly. I will be glad to hear from you, too, of course, and will be pleased to pass along your comments. I have a special fondness in my heart for local LVA and Laubach tutoring programs. Gail S Gail Spangenberg President Council for Advancement of Adult Literacy 1221 Avenue of the Americas - 50th Fl New York, NY 10020 >I have complete confidence that our member from Oregon will assure that >volunteer organizations, all CBOs and community colleges work together. She >is a collaborator from the get-go and thinks holistically about moving the >client/student down the learning continuum through cross-agency agreements. >Va > >-----Original Message----- >From: Bonnie Odiorne [mailto:bodiorne@c4k.org] >Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2003 12:54 >To: Multiple recipients of list >Subject: [NIFL-4EFF:2288] RE: Task Force Named for CAAL Community College >Project > > >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 > >-----Original Message----- >From: nifl-4eff@nifl.gov [mailto:nifl-4eff@nifl.gov]On Behalf Of Martha A. >Lane >Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2003 9:08 AM >To: Multiple recipients of list >Subject: [NIFL-4EFF:2286] RE: Task Force Named for CAAL Community 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 > >-----Original Message----- >From: nifl-4eff@nifl.gov [mailto:nifl-4eff@nifl.gov]On Behalf Of Gail >Spangenberg >Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2003 8:54 AM >To: Multiple recipients of list >Subject: [NIFL-4EFF:2285] Task Force Named for CAAL Community College >Project > > > >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 > > > >-- -- 212-512-2362, fax 212-512-2610
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