The Literacy Center Founder
The Loyola Community Literacy Center was founded in 1992 by a distinguished scholar and teacher in the university's English Department. He is also a person with a strong sense of social justice who believes that even the most renowned scholars in English and Literary Studies should teach someone how to read.
To carry out this mission, he founded the LCLC to reach out to the adults in Loyola’s Rogers Park neighborhood. The Literacy Center not only helps its neighbors improve their skills but also offers Loyola student-tutors the opportunity to practice Jesuit values by serving others. The LC has operated continually on the Lake Shore Campus since that time. The LCLC, Loyola’s gift to the community, provides individual assistance to all adults, both native and non-native English speakers, who wish to improve their reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills in English. He has been rewarded for his generosity and dedication to service not only by the learners who come to the Literacy Center but also by the students who have served as tutors and staff. They are grateful to him for creating a program which affords them an excellent opportunity to enrich their lives and careers. Those who knew him personally are especially thankful for his exemplary dedication as a scholar, a teacher, a mentor, and a treasured friend.
The Loyola Community Literacy Center was founded in 1992 by a distinguished scholar and teacher in the university's English Department. He is also a person with a strong sense of social justice who believes that even the most renowned scholars in English and Literary Studies should teach someone how to read.
To carry out this mission, he founded the LCLC to reach out to the adults in Loyola’s Rogers Park neighborhood. The Literacy Center not only helps its neighbors improve their skills but also offers Loyola student-tutors the opportunity to practice Jesuit values by serving others. The LC has operated continually on the Lake Shore Campus since that time. The LCLC, Loyola’s gift to the community, provides individual assistance to all adults, both native and non-native English speakers, who wish to improve their reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills in English. He has been rewarded for his generosity and dedication to service not only by the learners who come to the Literacy Center but also by the students who have served as tutors and staff. They are grateful to him for creating a program which affords them an excellent opportunity to enrich their lives and careers. Those who knew him personally are especially thankful for his exemplary dedication as a scholar, a teacher, a mentor, and a treasured friend.