EDUCATION DEPARTMENT

STAFF

BARBARA ALBERS
Director of Project TEACH Program

Email: albers@hope.edu

Hi! I'm Barbara Albers and I have the best possible position. I am privileged to work with minority students who are in our area high schools who want to become teachers, with the families of these students, with students who are at Hope who are working towards becoming teachers and who choose to become mentors for the Project TEACH students, and with staff at the various high schools and at Hope College. I am the director of Project TEACH.

Students apply to Project TEACH by April 17 of their freshman or sophomore year in high school. They are chosen to participate in Project TEACH and agree to spend two hours per week with a mentor from Hope. They also agree to participate in all Project TEACH activities. These students then apply to Hope at the end of their junior year or beginning of their senior year in high school, and are accepted into Hope contingent on their academic record, application, and test scores.

Upon entering Hope College their tuition, room and board, and some fees are waived. They need to concentrate on becoming the best teacher they can become! They continue to have a mentor while at Hope for the first two years. After that, they have an opportunity to become a mentor themselves,
having a mentor themselves, or remaining active with the program in other specific ways.

I have one married daughter who along with her husband are studying Archeology in graduate school in Canada. My husband is a counselor at West Middle School in the Holland School District. I was a high school guidance counselor in St. Louis, Missouri for ten years before moving to Holland. After spending the next few years at home raising our daughter and doing extensive volunteer work in the local schools and with Community Mental Health, I accepted my present position as director of Project TEACH at Hope College.

Please feel free to contact me at (616) 395-7576 or at my e-mail address.