Nash Community College English Instructor Franchesca Battle has been selected to serve on a N.C. Community College System English/Reading Redesign Task Force.

The English/Reading Redesign Task Force has been charged with developing and sharing with the Developmental Education Initiative State Policy committee a redesigned developmental English/Reading curriculum. To provide the best outcomes for developmental students, the redesign will afford opportunities to incorporate modularization, contextualized instruction, accelerated progression, and additional innovations into the curriculum.

Phase I of the overall Developmental Education Initiative focused on developmental math redesign while developmental English/reading redesign will constitute Phase II.

Forty nominations for English and reading faculty committee members were submitted by North Carolina community colleges to the N.C. Community College System Office. Upon review of the nominations, a selection committee recommended 18 faculty members to the serve on the Redesign Task Force.

Franchesca holds a bachelor’s degree in English and public relations from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, a master’s degree in public administration and graduate hours in English from East Carolina University. She has been employed with Nash Community College since 2005.