Survey deadline October 10th! We are hoping to update and expand the ALP national inventory. We thank those of you who provided information about your programs through the survey sent out by AtD last year and hope you will update your information through the current survey. We hope those of you who did not complete the survey last year will take a moment to help us expand the inventory so we are including as many ALPs as possible.
ALP Updates
Exciting News for the 2015 Conference on Acceleration in Developmental Education!
Save the Date! The 2015 Conference on Acceleration in Developmental Education is heading west as the California Acceleration Project joins the Community College of Baltimore County and ALP as co-hosts of the conference. We are excited to expand the audience of the...
Dr. Andrea Lunsford writes about ALP
We were very excited when Dr. Andrea Lunsford agreed to be our Plenary Speaker at the 2014 Conference. We are equally pleased to see the glowing article she wrote regarding ALP and the Conference in general! See what she wrote here (link).
SPECIAL PROPOSAL ANNOUNCEMENT
PLEASE READ Our email service has apparently eaten all of the proposals from February 18th to March 1st. We apologize for this inconvenience, but we would like everyone who has submitted in the past two and a half weeks to send their proposal again. We have now backed...
Findings from the First Year of a Two-Year Nationwide ALP Study Available
The results of a year-long study, funded by the Kresge Foundation and overseen by Achieving the Dream, are now available in the report, “Replicating the Accelerated Learning Program: Preliminary But Promising Findings. ”
Best Wishes and Thanks to Peter Adams
On January 1st, Peter Adams, the founder and director of ALP at The Community College of Baltimore County, retired from the college. His vision and dedication to improving developmental education are the reasons ALP has achieved such great success as a nationally recognized acceleration program.
The good news is that Peter intends to continue his work as a developmental education consultant and to remain active in the reform of developmental education.
To contact Peter, visit his website: peteradamsALP.com
2014 Plenary Speakers
We are especially excited this year to announce Dr. Freeman A. Hrabowski, President of University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and Dr. Andrea Lunsford as our Plenary Speakers!
A banner year for ALP
This has been a banner year for ALP! As the number of schools has increased, so has recognition. ALP was recently recognized as a top innovation in terms of evidence of progress and scale in testimony to a US Senate Committee.
CCSSE chooses ALP
The Community College of Baltimore County is one of six schools singled out in the current report to a detailed profile of their high-impact practices, in our case, ALP.
2014 National Conference on Acceleration in Developmental Education
It’s hard to believe, but we are already preparing for the 2014 National Conference on Acceleration in Developmental Education! It will be held on June 19-20, with pre-conference workshops on the 18th. Proposals are now being accepted, due by 2/15/14.