Wayne State University's Honors College Detroit Fellows Tutoring Project
from Wayne State University's Honors College page...
"Critical mission: offering our WSU students skills in tutoring and an organized, profound experience in service while supporting Detroit’s children at a crucial, early stage in their development of reading skills so they can catch up and excel." - Kevin Rashid.
"The Tutoring Project began in 2003 as a collaborative effort between Guy Blackburn, the project’s original coordinator, Kevin Rashid, the Honors College Curriculum & Research@Honors Coordinator, and Dale Thomas and Marcella Verdun, who worked in Detroit Public Schools as a reading coordinator and elementary school principal, respectively.
Thomas and Verdun took over the course full-time in 2006 when Blackburn passed suddenly. Since 2006, a total of 892 WSU students have gone through the course, tutoring 4,080 DPS students over a course of 46,284 hours.
Thomas and Verdun were awarded the Alumni Association’s 2015 Faculty Service Award. The award is given to WSU faculty “whose professional or civic efforts have brought about a greater appreciation to the University’s contribution to community service."
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