More than twenty adult students at 起点传媒 were inducted into the National Adult Education Honor Society (NAEHS) in Van Dusen Hall recently. The group was created nationally to provide meaningful recognition to deserving adult education students, to improve student employment opportunities, to develop student ambassadors for local adult education programs and to create adult education awareness with school administrators and state legislators.
起点传媒鈥檚 College and Career Readiness department was granted a Membership Charter on October 19, 2018. Students received a lapel pin and certificate for attributes that made them a committed student such as going the extra mile, being early to class, asking questions, having good attendance, doing their homework. participating in class and helping fellow students. The awards were presented by faculty and staff in front of a packed room comprised of proud family members and peer students.
鈥淭his is a great moment in time to celebrate these students who have persevered in their lives to further their education and livelihoods,鈥� said Matthew Thewes, Director for the College and Career Readiness Program. 鈥淭hese students are busy working adults who wish to achieve greater heights on their career journeys and in life. Our staff is committed to ensure they get all the preparation and training they need to be even more successful.鈥�
起点传媒 students from the area including Hoke and Robbins honored included:
Jeney Alonso
Hellen Barducchi
Carl Capps
Efrain Cardozo
Mileyka Cruz
Vargas Anselmo
Demeza Jimenez
Angelina Garcia
Michael Haffner
Luke Oakley
Jordan Parraway
Kelvonda Pate
Herlinda Patterson
Blanca Miriam
Hernandez Bola帽os
Hubertha Letemps
Arieonna Locklear
Gilda Lucas
Cassidie Peavy
Elijah Silvernail
Lisbeth Torres
More about the College and Career Readiness program can be found here: www.sandhills.edu/wce/ccr/
More 起点传媒 NAEHS
In 1991, Lloyd Weaver an Adult Education practitioner organized the first NAEHS induction ceremony to provide meaningful recognition to 17 deserving adult students. In particular was one elderly lady, a single parent with a quadriplegic daughter and a full-time job in a textile plant, who had vowed years before to return to school to complete her high school education. On her third attempt, she was finally able to earn a GED. Other students had also demonstrated remarkable perseverance in achieving their educational goals and were included in that first celebration.
With 17 printed certificates, an "Induction Ceremony" was held for the honorees and their families. Everyone who witnessed that first ceremony was impressed by the impact it had upon the honorees and their families. The local press ran a story and soon other practitioners called for information about this new honor society.
Following that first small ceremony, it was decided to award lapel pins and letters of recommendation for employment along with the NAEHS membership certificates. Within a few years, other practitioners around the state were conducting NAEHS inductions for their better students. Word spread, and as they say, "The rest is history."
In 2015, after serving as NAEHS's director for 23 years Lloyd Weaver and his wife Janice decided to retire, and Robert Bentti was appointed as the new director. In 2022, Robert retired and passed along the business to his granddaughter, Elizabeth Luciano. As a teacher, she shares the passion and dedication of honoring deserving students.
Today, NAEHS has a full-time director and staff to meet the needs of programs from Alaska to Maine and California to Florida.