Delta State University will welcome Teach For America back to campus as the organization kicks off its ninth year of training hosted by the university.<\/p>\n
Approximately 310 corps members and staff members will begin the intensive summer curriculum June 11 for the 2018 TFA Delta Institute.<\/p>\n
On June 10 from noon to 5 p.m., Delta State will host TFA Registration Day at DMI Studio A to welcome the corps on campus.\u00a0Volunteers are sought to work one-hour increments in one of the following areas: greeters, welcome wagon, Okra Kart drivers, handing out information packets and lunch boxes, and dorm check in at Foundation Hall.<\/p>\n
To sign up for a volunteer slot, contact\u00a0Leigh Emerson, assistant director of Communications and Marketing at Delta State, at\u00a0lkorb@deltastate.edu<\/a>\u00a0or 662-856-4677.<\/p>\n \u201cWe are very excited to welcome Teach For America back to our campus again this year,\u201d said Emerson, \u201cWe\u2019re grateful that Delta State and TFA have maintained this solid partnership since 2010.\u201d<\/p>\n TFA is the national corps of outstanding recent college graduates of all academic majors and career interests who commit two years to teach in urban and rural public schools and become leaders in the effort to expand educational opportunity.<\/p>\n These corps members work in school districts challenged by poverty, geography or other issues. Their training to teach begins at summer institutes, and Delta State is one of just a handful of training facilities across the nation.<\/p>\n Learn more about TFA at\u00a0https:\/\/www.teachforamerica.org<\/a>. Follow all Delta State news at\u00a0www.deltastate.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Delta State University will welcome Teach For America back to campus as the organization kicks off its ninth year of training hosted by the university. Approximately 310 corps members and…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":144,"featured_media":80525,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,246,598],"tags":[1433],"class_list":["post-80524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-academics","category-students","category-teach-for-america","tag-teach-for-america"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80524"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80528,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80524\/revisions\/80528"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}