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CCCUA’s CAMP Gets HEP
06 January 2005
DE QUEEN – Eduardo Mendoza, Director of the College Assistance Migrant Program (CAMP) at CCCUA, announced today that the College has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the High School Equivalency Program (HEP) that is administered by Crowder College in Neosho, Missouri. Crowder College will establish an outreach site for their HEP grant at CCCUA in De Queen to help migrant farm workers and their children earn their General Equivalency Diplomas (GED) so they will qualify for admission into CCCUA’s CAMP program, which is targeted at helping that same group enter and successfully complete their first year of college. Neosho is located on U.S. 71 between Bella Vista, Arkansas and Joplin.
Details for the implementation of the MOU were worked out at a meeting held at CCCUA-De Queen on November 17th between Mendoza, other members of the CCCUA Adult Education staff, and Tara Ramsey, the HEP Assistant Director at Crowder College. While she was in De Queen, Ramsey also met with other members of the Adult Education staff at CCCUA’s off-campus sites to acquaint herself with the facilities and the equipment that was available to implement the instructional program. Crowder also met with the HEP Instructor, Liliana Williams, who also serves as the Crowder-HEP local outreach representative.
Crowder’s HEP will handle the production of marketing material for eligible migrant and seasonal farm workers for GED instruction at CCCUA, provide a part-time “GED in Spanish” instructor for from six to twelve hours a week, provide books and a weekly stipend for participants, and assistance with post-GED placement to qualified workers. HEP will also provide assistance to GED teachers and students through its Blackboard.com Spanish GED website, and provide materials and workshop support to CCCUA’s Adult Education program that promotes bilingual education toward the GED and post-GED placement.
CCCUA’s Adult Education department will distribute marketing material for and recruit eligible migrant and seasonal farm workers for GED education in either Spanish or English, report registrations in any GED program by those who are thought to be eligible for HEP as seasonal or migrant farm workers, provide classroom space at its Fifth Street Center or at the Pilgrim-Cossatot Learning Center on South 4th Street, provide assistance in recruiting a bilingual GED instructor with a Bachelor's degree or equivalent education, and conduct research in finding testing sites for undocumented students.
The Memorandum will be revisited in January 2005 for updating and renewal.
Cossatot Community College offers both technical certification and Associate’s degrees in a wide range of fields on its campus at De Queen, at extension sites at Nashville and Ashdown, and at cccua.edu. It has an enrollment of more than 1,000 students, and is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools.
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