{"id":7681,"date":"2016-07-13T09:09:13","date_gmt":"2016-07-13T13:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/?p=7681"},"modified":"2022-03-23T10:15:54","modified_gmt":"2022-03-23T14:15:54","slug":"goodwillpartner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/goodwillpartner\/","title":{"rendered":"Kalamazoo College is a Goodwill Partner"},"content":{"rendered":"
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K student Andrew Parsons \u201919 helps Goodwill student Estefani Rosales with her GED studies. Photo by Tony Dugal<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Kalamazoo College has received the Community Partner of the Year Award for 2016 from Goodwill Industries of Southwest Michigan.<\/p>\n

In announcing the award, Goodwill officials noted that \u201cKalamazoo College has been an invaluable partner to Goodwill Industries of Southwest Michigan and its Adult Education programming for more than a decade.\u201d<\/p>\n

K students, working through the College\u2019s Mary Jane Underwood Stryker Center for Civic Engagement<\/a><\/strong> provide tutoring support in Goodwill classrooms for adults studying to pass a General Educational Development (GED) test, a credential that\u2019s commonly considered equivalent to a high school diploma.<\/p>\n

\u201cK students also offer encouragement to our students and demonstrate that K cares about the well-being of the community at large,\u201d said Scott Goodwin, coordinator of education services for Goodwill Industries of Southwest Michigan. \u201cOver the years, the faces of the K students have changed, but the results remain constant. K students are committed to the students at Goodwill.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to Goodwin, one Goodwill student who recently passed her GED exam commented that the biggest reason she was successful was because of her K tutor\u2019s commitment to help her and encouragement that she could finish.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd she did,\u201d Goodwin said.<\/p>\n

\u201cKalamazoo College\u2019s service-learning programming puts an emphasis on helping educational programming throughout Kalamazoo and the results have been wonderful. We are pleased to honor Kalamazoo College with our Community Partner of the Year Award.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kalamazoo College has received the Community Partner of the Year Award for 2016 from Goodwill Industries of Southwest Michigan. In announcing the award, Goodwill officials noted that \u201cKalamazoo College has been an invaluable partner to Goodwill Industries of Southwest Michigan and its Adult Education programming for more than a decade.\u201d K students, working through the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":7683,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[235,231],"tags":[30,43,13,38],"post_formats":[],"class_list":["post-7681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-institutional-announcements","category-students","tag-awards","tag-community","tag-service-learning","tag-students"],"yoast_head":"\r\nKalamazoo College is a Goodwill Partner - News and Events<\/title>\r\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Kalamazoo College has received the Community Partner of the Year Award for 2016 from Goodwill Industries of Southwest Michigan. 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her GED studies\" width=\"350\" height=\"269\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7682\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">K student Andrew Parsons \u201919 helps Goodwill student Estefani Rosales with her GED studies. Photo by Tony Dugal<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Kalamazoo College has received the Community Partner of the Year Award for 2016 from Goodwill Industries of Southwest Michigan.<\/p>\n<p>In announcing the award, Goodwill officials noted that \u201cKalamazoo College has been an invaluable partner to Goodwill Industries of Southwest Michigan and its Adult Education programming for more than a decade.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>K students, working through the College\u2019s <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/reason.kzoo.edu\/servicelearning\/\">Mary Jane Underwood Stryker Center for Civic Engagement<\/a><\/strong> provide tutoring support in Goodwill classrooms for adults studying to pass a General Educational Development (GED) test, a credential that\u2019s commonly considered equivalent to a high school diploma.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cK students also offer encouragement to our students and demonstrate that K cares about the well-being of the community at large,\u201d said Scott Goodwin, coordinator of education services for Goodwill Industries of Southwest Michigan. \u201cOver the years, the faces of the K students have changed, but the results remain constant. K students are committed to the students at Goodwill.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to Goodwin, one Goodwill student who recently passed her GED exam commented that the biggest reason she was successful was because of her K tutor\u2019s commitment to help her and encouragement that she could finish.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd she did,\u201d Goodwin said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKalamazoo College\u2019s service-learning programming puts an emphasis on helping educational programming throughout Kalamazoo and the results have been wonderful. We are pleased to honor Kalamazoo College with our Community Partner of the Year Award.\u201d<\/p>\n","comment_info":"No Comments","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7681"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7684,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7681\/revisions\/7684"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7681"},{"taxonomy":"post_format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_formats?post=7681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}