Harper College’s teamwork with local organizations to promote community policing in Rolling Meadows earned the school a 1997 Award for Excellence in Teaching and Learning from the Illinois Community College Board.
“The awards are designed to recognize those colleges that are providing the most outstanding leadership in developing innovative teaching-learning initiatives to address the needs of community college students,” said Joseph Cipfl, the board’s executive director.
In its Active Learning Integral to Community Policing program, Harper became partners with the Rolling Meadows Police Department, Northwest Community Health Care, Elementary School District 15, High School District 214, Evenstart Child Development Program and more than 50 community agencies.
The organizations worked together to educate students of under-represented populations in the Police Neighborhood Resource Center in Rolling Meadows, which serves a large Hispanic community.
At the center, the college’s Adult Educational Development faculty and staff offers year-round instruction and assistance, including English as a second language, pre-general equivalency diploma classes and bilingual career services.
