coe-staff: High School Equivalency Program Closure (from Lauren Lindstrom)

[Jerry Rosiek]

This is a catastrophic loss.  It may not register on indices such as our AAU
ranking, nor our US & World Reports ranking.  However, HEP was a jewel in
the COE's portfolio of outreach programs.  Its 47 years of service to
immigrants seeking education and opportunity, in defiance of the racist and
xenophobic ideologies that promote exclusion or erasure of our immigrant
brothers and sisters, changing the lives of individuals and families across
multiple generations, matters at least as much as many of the COE's more
visible programs.  That its half-century long existence can be ended so
suddenly, without any recourse or back up plan, reflects poorly on our
commitment as a College and University to the needs of immigrant
communities.

 

Perhaps this is the occasion to raise a question that has been asked before.
Can we make one of our development priorities the establishment of
scholarships for traditionally underserved students-in this case immigrant
students whose first language is something other than English. We should
secure funding internally for this kind of service, and not depend entirely
on federal grants for doing such work.

 

Jerry Rosiek

 

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[mailto:coe-staff-bounces at lists.uoregon.edu] On Behalf Of Shaun Haskins
Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2014 9:12 AM
To: 'coe-staff at lists.uoregon.edu'
Subject: coe-staff: High School Equivalency Program Closure (from Lauren
Lindstrom)

 

Dear College of Education Colleagues,

 

I write with an update about one of our Outreach Centers.  After 47 years of
continuous funding from the US Department of Education Office of Migrant
Education, our High School Equivalency Program (HEP) was not re-funded for
this grant cycle.  Without this funding, the program will be closing
effective September 30, 2014. As many of you know, HEP provided critical
educational services to help prepare individuals from migrant/seasonal
farm-working backgrounds to complete the General Educational Development
certificate.  The closure of this program is certainly a great loss to the
College and the community.

 

Sincerely,

 

Lauren

 

Lauren Lindstrom, Ph.D

Associate Dean of Research and Academics

Director, Center at Oregon for Research in Education (CORE)

College of Education, University of Oregon

(541) 346-1399

lindstrm at uoregon.edu

 

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