Loyola Phoenix: "Students serve community at Literacy Center"

This article describes the work of the Loyola Community Literacy Center. Established in 1992, the Loyola Community Literacy Center (LCLC) on the Lake Shore Campus offered free tutoring in basic English to adults from neighborhoods around the university; it has also had interested participants from as far as the West Side of Chicago. The center began by conducting twice-weekly sessions during the semester and gradually branched into offering sessions over the summer as well. The center’s tutors included Loyola undergraduates, faculty, staff, and neighborhood volunteers. Prospective learners, many of whom hear about the center through word of mouth, are assigned a tutor after an initial assessment, and both work together in a learner-centered process, with lessons built around learners’ needs. Another form of partnership between learner and the LCLC is Learning at Loyola, a magazine publishing essays written by learners. Student tutors reflected that the sessions also made them “much more knowledgeable in English than they would otherwise have them. The article also features two images, one of Classical studies professor Jacqueline Long working with a learner (top), and the other of student tutors being briefed at orientation (bottom)

2002-02-06

Loyola Phoenix 2002, February 6, page 6

University Archives and Special Collections

Loyola University Archives and Special Collections, Loyola Phoenix 2002, February 6, page 6

Loyola University Chicago

Loyola Community Literacy Center

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