Through Adult Education Services, Students Get Another Chance to Learn
Adult Education Services is not a well-known part of the educational offerings at WNMU, but Adult Education Services Director Colton Bjerke hopes to change that. Bjerke, who joined the university in 2022, is working to increase public awareness of the services offered, as well as to expand services in areas of southwest New Mexico that are underserved. Bjerke explained that his office provides three different programs. “The most well-known one is the high school equivalency, which is preparing students to succeed on the GED or HiSET,” he said, “The second program for us is the Adult Basic Education program, which helps students develop basic literacy skills and basic numeracy skills, so they can then be successful in the more challenging classes .” In both of these programs together, Adult Education Services has 72 students enrolled. The third program is English as a Second Language (ESL), which WNMU offers at both its Silver City and Deming locations. There are...