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Strong volunteer response
to help inmates

Women in Burnaby’s correctional centre will
get one-on-one tutoring in basic literacy and

math skills.

 

ouglas College instructor
[) Linda Forsythe is going to

have plenty of help as she
begins a new volunteer tutorial pro-
gram for inmates at the Burnaby
Correctional Centre for Women.

In the program, volunteers provide
minimum security inmates with one-
on-one tutoring in basic literacy and
math skills. After Douglas College’s
Public Information Office released a
story about Forsythe and the pro-
gram, which was reprinted by several
community newspapers, her phone
started ringing.

"The response was very good,"

 

says Forsythe. "I only needed 15
people, and received about 40 phone
calls."

Forsythe teaches in the Burnaby
centre’s maximum security unit
through the Douglas College Prison
Education Program. She helped estab-
lish a similar men’s tutorial program
at the Kent Penitentiary in Agassiz in
1984.

Forsythe says her experience
shows that improving an inmates’
basic literacy and math skills will
bolster both their self-esteem and
chances of finding work upon
release. "It gives them the possibility

Registration climbs again

Qoer er numbers keep climbing higher at Douglas College.
ith numbers for late registration still to be added (usually 200-300 stu-
dents), the Registrar’s Office reported that a preliminary total of 7,391 students
had enrolled for the College’s 1992 spring semester.

The total (with 2,737 full-time and 4,354 part-time students) was substantial-
ly higher than spring 1991’s final enrollment of 6,487.

An even more significant fact in the growth trend, says Registrar Trish Angus, is
that once late registration is completed, the spring student total could likely out-
strip the record numbers of Fall 1991, when 7,560 students enrolled. A

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of leading more productive lives," she
says.

In screening the list of volunteer
applicants, who were asked to com-
mit to six months in the program that
began on Jan. 6, Forsythe sought no-
nonsense people who can stick to
teaching the three R’s.

"People should not have roman-
ticized ideas about they can
accomplish. They have to leave those
kind of notions outside. We don’t
want anyone with a cause or an axe
to grind. We just want people with a

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