Jane Neuburger
Jane Neuburger has been a long-time NYCLSA; she is a past president and is currently Membership Chair. Very early on, she joined NYCLSA’s Ethics and Standards Committee simply to work on guidance for writing tutors – this has evolved into a life-long focus on standards and how we all can incorporate best practices to improve out programs and student outcomes.
Currently, she is working with Geoff Bailey of NCLCA and Un. of Louisville on revising the former NADE standards or tutoring programs for a wider audience. That is our focus today.
During her professional life, Jane has served as NADE President and NYCLSA’ newsletter editor. For 22 years she served on the NADE Accreditation Council, which worked with at least 589 institutions, representing 47 states and 8 foreign countries. Today, she serves as the CRLA alternate representative to CAS, the Council for the Advancement of Standards in Higher Education and has joined the committees working on revising the General Standards and the Student Learning Dimensions and Domains Committee.
Jane has taught 9th grade English in the Southeast Bronx; 8th grade English in Goshen NY, and reading lab AT Curtis HS on Staten Island. She worked in a school for delinquent youths and in a prison with incarcerated adults while completing a master’s degree in reading. After a family move to Central New York, she served as a professional tutor and instructor at Cazenovia College, where she also taught and designed curriculum for developmental reading and writing, study strategies, first-year seminars, tutor training as a three-credit course, children’s literature, adolescent literature, composition and literature courses, and critical/creative thinking. She worked with students in TRIO’s Student Support Services as well as NY State’s HEOP, and advised students in technical, associate, and baccalaureate degree programs. She adjuncted at SUNY Morrisville.
In 2002, she was hired as Director of the Tutoring & Study Center at Syracuse University, where she increased student contacts by over 400%, instituted CRLA-certified tutor training and a 400/600 credit course in peer tutoring, established a consortium of all learning support on campus; worked with the student-athlete program, set up a PLTL (similar to SI) program for McNair scholars, consulted with the Biology Department to set up PLTL, and worked with the International Students Program to set up a Video-based SI program. She helped create tutoring support for Upstate Medical University medical students and conferred with SUNY ESF and the Law School. She is delighted to see how the program, now CLASS, has evolved!
She was an invited presenter at the renowned Kellogg Institute. In 2006, she was inducted as a Fellow of the Council of Learning Assistance and Developmental Education Associations (CLADEA), the highest honor in our field.
In retirement, Jane continues work with the NYCLSA, CAS, and CRLA. She is on the editorial boards of JCRL and RTDE. She and her husband Lou have four children and seven grandchildren. They delight in swimming, boating, traveling, entertaining, reading, and spending time with family. She has just returned from a trip to the big island Hawaii with her sister, to see Mauna Loa volcano in the Kilauea caldera.
