[NLA] Important Info: NLA List coming to a close

[Mary Ann Corley]

David:

Thank you for your many years of unwavering service to helping the adult
literacy field grow through the NLA list.  Thank you, especially, for so
often being the voice of wisdom for so many of us.  I doubt that you are
fully aware of your influence throughout the field and how much we have all
learned from you through the NLA!  We are indebted to you for your many
contributions, for your caring and your efforts to move our field forward,
for your probing and questioning and encouraging us to think, and for your
willingness, always, to share your knowledge and resources.  I feel
compelled to publicly offer thanks and best wishes to you on the listserv
that you founded because your contributions have been truly
extraordinary--and they need to be acknowledged publicly.  Although you will
move on from your role as NLA list moderator,  we WILL continue to work with
you in your capacity as adult education consultant--and there will be
numerous efforts in which you undoubtedly will be asked to continue to share
your wisdom!

Best wishes and heartfelt thanks.

-Mary Ann Corley
NIFL-Povracelit List Moderator

----- Original Message -----
From: "David J. Rosen" <DJRosen at theworld.com>
To: <nla at lists.literacytent.org>
Sent: Sunday, March 30, 2003 5:50 PM
Subject: [NLA] Important Info: NLA List coming to a close


> NLA Colleagues,
>
> I founded the NLA electronic list ten years ago as a way to build a
> national adult literacy advocacy community. During this decade I have
> watched the membership grow to nearly 750 subscribers, and have been
> pleased to see many members become more active literacy advocates in
> their communities, their states and nationally.  I have become a more
> active and knowledgeable advocate in my state, and nationally, in part
> through being a member of the NLA list.
>
> It is time now for some changes.  After 17 years, this summer or fall
> I will be leaving my position as Director of Boston's Adult Literacy
> Resource Institute. I plan to expand my work as an independent
> consultant providing program and staff development and program
> evaluation services for adult education and out-of-school young adult
> programs.  To make time for this new work I need to reduce my many
> volunteer hours.  Unfortunately, moderating the NLA list is one of the
> activities which must go.
>
> I will close the NLA list in April. This will provide time for an
> alternative (or alternatives) to replace it.
>
> The NLA list is currently archived at
> http://www.nifl.gov/lincs/discussions/nifl-nla/nla.html   and at
> http://lists.literacytent.org/pipermail/nla/
>
> I hope that both the National Institute for Literacy LINCS and the
> Literacy Tent can continue to maintain the NLA archives.
>
> I want to make clear, especially given all that is happening now, that
> just as creating the NLA list was my personal decision (inspired by Paul
> Jurmo) closing it is also my personal decision and is not a result of
> outside influences.  Because a national electronic discussion forum on
> adult literacy public policy is needed, others will step forward to make
> this to happen.
>
> I want to thank those who, over the years, have made extraordinarily
> thoughtful contributions to the NLA list.  Through these postings I have
> come to know, respect and learn from many people, some of whom I have
> not yet had the pleasure to meet in person.  I hope that opportunity
> will arise in the years ahead.  In any case, we are sure to see each
> other online in other adult literacy education forums.
>
> All the best
>
> David J. Rosen
> NLA List Moderator
>
>
>
>
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