2025 Annual Report

2024-2025 Annual Report

The Center for Literacy Education (CLE) is proud of its accomplishments in its first full year of existence. They include:

• Created and continuously updated the CLE website
• Worked with University Marketing and Communications to create and later update the CLE logo
• Collaborated with the CLE Executive Committee to finalize faculty, staff, and student grant processes and assessments
• Recruited faculty/staff for the CLE Advisory Committee
• Recruited more than 90 Affiliated Faculty/Staff 
• Created a grant assessment form with specific evaluation metrics for use by CLE’s Research Associate for Assessment & Evaluation
• Worked with Administrative Assistant and the CLE Executive Committee to review, vet, and award grants to WFU faculty, staff, and students
  • Student Research Grant (n=19)
  • Event Sponsorship Grant (n=6)
  • Books Grant (n=4)
  • Professional Development Grant (n=4)
  • Collaborative Project Grant (n=3)
  • Community Partnership Grant (n=3)
  • Interdisciplinary Teaching Grant (n=2)
• Awarded grants to faculty, staff, and students totaling more than $24,000, along with more than $17,000 going to support CLE’s Visiting Scholars Speaker Series and Community Networking Conference 
• Hosted two Innovation Incubator & Idea Exchange Forums with approximately 30 affiliated total faculty/staff from across the university in attendance
• Supported and promoted relevant News & Events and faculty/staff Publications & Presentations (including research, scholarship, and creative activities)
• Hosted the first annual Visiting Scholars Speaker Series & Community Networking Conference
  • Topic – “A Gun is Not Fun: Strategies to Keep Children Safe from Gun Violence”
  • Included 15 university and community co-sponsors: Office of the Provost, Department of Education, Wake the Arts, Humanities Institute, National Endowment for the Humanities, Skip Prosser Literacy Program, Center for Prevention Science in Child and Family Health, Department of Theatre and Dance, African American Studies, School of Divinity, Department of Sociology, Department of English, Office of Civic and Community Engagement, Documentary Film Program, Safe Kids Northwest
  • Included panelists and moderators from Wake Forest University, Wake Forest School of Medicine, NYU Tisch School of the Arts, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Charlotte, North Carolina Department of Public Instruction, and North Carolina Department of Public Safety
• Worked with university advancement on a proposal for a family foundation gift to support CLE programming
• Received additional gifts from local alumni to support Teacher Professional Learning
• Established and sponsored our first Teacher Professional Learning course, Civil Discourse in Civic Literacy
• Onboarded a new grant writer and graduate assistant for 2025-2026
• Funded Winston-Salem TEACH staff and programming after the loss of federal funding
• Supported Wake Forest Freedom School after the loss of local funding

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