Did You Know?
With the arrival of the Fall, 2006 semester, the Adult Education Program at Daley College begins its 97th session of tuition-free classes for adults in Adult Basic Education/General Educational
Development (ABE/GED) in English and Spanish, Citizenship, and English as a Second Language (ESL). Below is a list of some program highlights and accomplishments from the past twenty years:
More than 300,000 ABE/GED, Citizenship, and ESL students (duplicated headcount**)
have been served.
More than 2,000,000 instructional hours have been offered.
Students from more than 75 countries have enrolled.
More than 3,800 GED graduates have been identified to date.
Approximately 7% of the college's credit enrollment is comprised of Adult Education Program completers each semester.
17 program graduates currently work in the program as adult educators, coordinators, and/or staff assistants.
Daley Adult Education Program operates its own library that houses more than 2,500 titles and 32,000 books.
Daley Adult Education Program runs its own tutoring program.
The program distributes its own student publication each semester.
Daley Adult Education Program received international recognition at the
1998 Florida TESOL Conference for its work with the University of Illinois
and the Great Cities Initiative Project.
The program's established partnership with St. Xavier University provides
services each semester for developmentally disabled adults.
Daley Adult Education Program's adult educator and coordinator evaluation
programs and the Daley Adult Educator Handbook have been used as design
models for the City Colleges districtwide.
Daley Adult Education Program has offered classes at more than 50 off-campus
site locations.
Program information is distributed in 8 languages. Further, the ESL information
phone line provides information in 4 languages. More than 10 languages
are spoken by program staff members.
More than 500 adult educators have worked in the program.
Daley Adult Education Program Writer's Workshop Series presenters have
included Leslie Baldacci (Chicago Sun-Times), the late Gwendolyn Brooks,
John Callaway (Chicago Tonight), Leila Diab, Ray Hanania (Chicago Sun-Times),
Rob Newhouse (The Elvis Brothers), Columbia College's Dominic Pacyga, Writer
Ellen Skerritt, Reinhold Weedge (Barney Miller, M*A*S*H, Night Court),
and Eric Zorn (Chicago Tribune).
