NLA Info: Student Leadership Organization Survey

[Paul Jurmo]

Dear NLA subscribers, 

Subscribers to the NLA list have seen the valuable leadership potential
which adult learners can bring to our field.  Learners are forming adult
learner organizations, organizing state conferences, participating on
decision-making bodies, and serving as advocates for adult learning.  As
Archie Willard explained in a recent posting, a small group of learners is
now working with a handful of adult education professionals to explore the
feasibility of creating a national adult learner organization. 

If funding can be secured, this planning group (joined by a few more
learners and professionals) will convene at the Highlander Center early
next year to take this idea of a national learner organization a few steps
further. 

Before we go much further down that road, we want to be clearer about the
level of interest in this idea.  We ask that the adult learners on this
list respond to the following questions.  We also ask that others who use
this list share these questions with the adult learners you work with and
convey their responses back to us.  Please convey your responses to Patsy
Medina (pmedina at juno.com) rather than to the list itself.  We will
share our findings with you soon. 

Paul Jurmo
<pjjurmo at intac.com>

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		***Please respond by November 21st.***



Please state:

Your name: 

Your address:

Your telephone number:



Are you: (Check all that apply.)

A current student in an adult basic education program? 

A former student in an adult basic education program?

An adult education provider?            (Please explain.) 

(Note that, because this survey is aimed at adult learners, anyone else
should only be serving as a _messenger_ conveying feedback from adult
learners with whom she/he works.)


1. Do you think it would be useful to create a national organization of
adult learners (i.e., current and former participants in adult basic
skills programs in the U.S.)?  (Check one.)

Yes 

No 

Not sure


2. If _yes_, what might such an organization try to accomplish?  (That is,
what should be its goals and purposes?)



3.  Are you currently (or have you previously been) involved in any
similar adult learner organization in your community or state?  (Check
one.)

Yes 

No 

4. If _yes_, what is/was that organization's name and what does/did it 
do?   



5. Would you like to be added to a mailing list in case a national
organization is formed?  (Check one.)

Yes 

No 

6. Would you be willing to help such a national organization? 

Yes

No

Maybe

If _yes_ or _maybe_, what might you do to help?  


6. Feel free to add any other comments, ideas, or questions here: 






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