WORK LEARNING SERVICE
Job Well Done Awards
Elsa Delgado
Biology Laboratory Teaching Assistant
Berea College

Quote from the Supervisor: “Elsa Delgado is one of the best Peer Leaders over the last decade. She has developed and applied all six soft skills (attendance, accountability, teamwork, initiative, respect, and learning) as a Teaching Assistant and Peer Leader. She has learned how to manage time, masterfully manage a class of students, encourage students to perform their personal best even when students are discouraged. Whether Elsa is running a meeting, facilitating a PAL program session, sweeping the lab floor, dissecting a cat or human, helping a student learn how to become an independent learner, Elsa does all of these things with a smile. The positive energy that Elsa brings to the PAL team is contagious and will be missed as she moves on to her next phase of life. Elsa has developed into a talented Peer Leader supervisor over the past two years and regularly goes above and beyond in her labor position. She is dependable and has developed into an effective educator and leader. Elsa’s long-term work as an Anatomy & Physiology teaching assistant and peer leader for the past two years and her work as a new dissector on the human body dissection team is worthy of recognition.”
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There are currently ten federally recognized Work Colleges, and nine are members of the Work Colleges Consortium. These institutions are small, private, liberal arts colleges with modest enrollments that range from about 150 to approximately 1,600 students. Each school is unique and operates the work program in a slightly different fashion. However, “work-learning-service” is a central component of each Work College. Student work, coupled with robust academics and a spirit of service, is the common denominator shared by all the Work Colleges.
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