Are you interested in discussing issues related to the changing
nature of work and the workforce? Are you looking for information
affecting small and mid-sized businesses in the areas of workplace
literacy, employee training, work restructuring, or labor-management
relations? Service and information providers-for example, community
colleges, workplace literacy providers, and manufacturing extension
centers and programs-working with small and mid-sized businesses now
have a new online service:
* NWAC-L, an electronic forum for discussing issues, sharing
information (i.e., instructional strategies and materials, research
and its applications, staff training approaches, evaluation
methods), and reviewing/critiquing materials produced by the
National Workforce Assistance Collaborative (NWAC).
* NWAC Gopher Server, online access to materials and products produced
by NWAC as well as additional instructional and staff training
materials, research studies, databases, bibliographies, programs
guides, reports, and articles concerning small and mid-sized
businesses and the challenges they face.
The Listserv and Gopher Server are sponsored by the National
Workforce Assistance Collaborative, a U. S. Department of Labor
initiative established in 1993 through a cooperative agreement with the
National Alliance of Business and its partners. The Collaborative is
helping:
* small and mid-sized businesses adopt high performance work
practices, become more competitive, and create and retain high
skill, high-wage jobs for American workers.
* service and information providers meet the needs of these businesses
in four key areas: workplace literacy, employee training, work
restructuring, and labor-management relations.
To subscribe to NWAC-L, send an e-mail message to
LISTSERV@PSUVM.PSU.EDU. Leave the subject line blank. The body of the
message must contain only the following: subscribe NWAC-L YourFirstName
YourLastName. The Gopher Server address is INFO.PSU.EDU. After you reach
the Gopher Server, open "Information Servers at Penn State", then open
"Research Centers and Institutes" to find the National Workforce
Assistance Collaborative or NWAC Gopher site.
For further information, contact Brett Bixler (BXB11@PSU.EDU) or
Barbara Van Horn (BLV1@PSU.EDU) or call either at the Institute for the
Study of Adult Literacy (814) 863-3777.
Posted by: bxb11@psu.edu (Brett Bixler)