Return-Path: <nifl-4eff@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id i6RKDG101011; Tue, 27 Jul 2004 16:13:16 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 16:13:16 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <p05100302bd2c65e8fcd4@[65.229.112.29]> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-4eff@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-4eff@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-4eff@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: Gail Spangenberg <gspangenberg@caalusa.org> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-4eff@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-4EFF:2789] New CAAL Paper Published on Adult Education in Illinois X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Status: O Content-Length: 2023 Lines: 41 NEWS RELEASE -- July 28, 2004 -- Today the Council for Advancement of Adult Literacy released a new paper in its community colleges series. THE ILLINOIS COMMUNITY COLLEGE SYSTEM & ADULT EDUCATION, by Suzanne Knell and Janet Scogins, is CAAL's Working Paper 5, issued in conjunction with its study of the role and potential of community colleges in adult education and literacy. Illinois is a model of national significance for many reasons, including the fact that an astounding 77 percent of adult education and literacy learners in the state is served by community colleges. It is also the largest state (among 13 in the nation) in which a community college authority administers adult education services. The report is 123 pages long. It contains an Executive Summary followed by two main sections. Part 1, the main body of the report, provides (a) a statistical overview of the need for adult education service, the provider system, the number of students served, and the nature of service in Illinois; (b) a discussion of the nature and functioning of the community college administrative system for adult education in the state; (c) the state's system of financing adult education; (d) the process by which responsibility for adult education was transferred to the Illinois Community College Board in 2001 and the issues and outcomes this shift has produced; and (e) a summary discussion of how adult education service is provided in four Illinois community colleges (Parkland College, Carl Sandburg College, Illinois Central College, and College of Lake County). Part II of the paper includes detailed profiles of the four local community colleges studied. The report is available in pdf format from the CAAL web site, at www.caalusa.org (item 5 in the left home page column). It may be freely reproduced. -- Gail Spangenberg President Council for Advancement of Adult Literacy 1221 Avenue of the Americas - 46th Floor New York, NY 10020 212-512-2362, fax 212-512-2610 www.caalusa.org
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