Professor Elam

Wednesday Sept 18 2019

The Mays Center hosted a group of  volunteer non profits on campus today. Students and faculty had the chance to interface with them one on one.

I visited with Mary Flannigan, Director of Communications and Partnerships at SA Youth Literacy.

This group recruits volunteers to assist second graders with a reading program. Testing begins in the third grade. So  assisting with a push toward reading makes sense at this time. We see the results of testing reading out of education. Far too often not college ready means a lack of reading comprehension, what did you read?  And good writing only results from good reading.