The Student Worker Alliance Program
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SWAP is a grassroots, student run, and dynamic organization of broad members of the CU community committed to cross-cultural engagement, mutual empowerment, skills acquisition, and solidarity in addressing inequality. Our mission is to bring together systematically divided campus sectors to share a common learning and cultural experience.
The objectives of SWAP are accomplished by providing free and convenient English language classes to predominantly immigrant University employees who hold under appreciated yet indispensable positions on campus and in the community.
SWAP provides free interactive and culturally informative trainings to university student volunteers, preparing them to teach one-on-one or small group English classes. SWAP operates through the support of an always evolving organizing committee, part-time student staff positions and an expansive volunteer network.
UPDATE: The IECE’s Student Worker Alliance Program (SWAP), received The Community Foundation Serving Boulder County’s NOVA Award on 7/29/11. Twenty–two programs were nominated. The award is a plaque by John Haertling and a $5,000 check for SWAP. This is a testament to the students who coordinate the program and the 125 student volunteers. The NOVA Award honors innovation in programs/services or innovations in business operations, within Boulder County's non-profit sector. The NOVA Awards were established by The Community Foundation in 1997.