English Language
Institute
2005 Newsletter
From the director's desk .
  ELI wins record grant to expand teacher training in 2006  
  Faculty search fills full-time positions  
  Katharine Schneider retires  
  CAP students admitted to the University of Delaware  
  Third group of Algerian educators train at ELI, prepare for international conference  
  MA TESL graduates find job success  
  Conditional admissions for qualified PreMBA students  
  ALLEI continues to train lawyers and law students  
  Special Programs  
  Conference held for Chilean schoolteachers  
  Boy Scout project serves Chilean schoolchildren  
  Christina School District English Language Learners  
  Classroom notes  
  In memoriam: Ruth Jackson  
  Administrator Profile: Deb Detzel  
  Tutoring Center news  
  Evening classes offered to the community  
  ELI prepared for new internet-based TOEFL  
  ELI alum continues UD collaboration  
  Campus links  
  This old house  
  Evening of art  
  Personnel notes  
  Professional activities of faculty and staff  
  Homestay/host family programs: Bigger than ever  
  Cecily Sawyer-Harmon, homestay mom, instinctively  
  A sampler of 2005 graduates  
  Alumni news  
  Former ELI student thanks Newark community  
  Greetings to our alumni  

Tutoring Center news

The Tutoring Center has had an eventful 2005 from bottom to top. Starting from the bottom, due to two floods in 2004, carpeting was replaced in the two largest rooms in the Rodney annex.

At the top, the Tutoring Center coordinator also changed in January. Patrick Ruffin, the previous coordinator, stepped down, and Ken Cranker, EAP VI teacher as well as Self-Access Learning Center (SALC) coordinator, became the tutoring coordinator as well. After these two jobs were combined, the tutoring coordinator became more accessible and more responsive to students’ needs.

 
Tutoring coordinator Ken Cranker helps out
a student in the Self Access Learning Center.

Located adjacent to the Tutoring Center, the SALC has also become a much livelier area, too, with tutors, students and the coordinator popping in and out when not busy in the Tutoring Center.

Tutors come and go with great fluidity. The 30 current tutors include veterans David Cassling, Dorothy Lehman, Isabel Whitaker, Ken Hyde, Lee Horzempa, Olive Yazid, Patrick White and Ruth Bailis, along with several excellent young tutors and retired professionals with lots of international experience.