27.06.07

For immediate release
6/18/2007

Hillary Major
VCU School of Education
(804) 828-7535
hmajor@vcu.edu

Dr. Emblidge appointed chair of Virginia Public Broadcasting Board, receives Friend of Reading Award

Governor Timothy M. Kaine has appointed Mark E. Emblidge, Ph.D., Director of The Literacy Institute at Virginia Commonwealth University and an affiliate professor in the VCU School of Education, chair of the Virginia Public Broadcasting Board.

The Virginia Public Broadcasting Board supports television and radio public broadcasting for the education, public awareness, entertainment, and economic benefit of Virginia citizens. It provides grants to stations to implement instructional programs.

As chair of the board, Dr. Emblidge will work closely with Gov. Kaine’s Secretary of Administration, Viola Baskerville.

Dr. Emblidge also has received the Legislative Friend of Reading Award from the Virginia State Reading Association.

The award recognizes Dr. Emblidge’s long history of fighting illiteracy. As director of the Virginia Literacy Foundation for the past 20 years, Dr. Emblidge has worked to support volunteer literacy organizations in Virginia and to partner with public and private literacy organizations to attack illiteracy in the workplace.

In 1995, President Clinton appointed Dr. Emblidge to the board of the National Institute for Literacy, which Emblidge chaired from 1998 to 2002.

About The Literacy Institute at VCU:
The Literacy Institute at VCU, a partnership between the Virginia Literacy Foundation and Virginia Commonwealth University’s School of Education and Center for Public Policy, was formed in 2002 to ensure that Virginia’s public policy makers are kept aware of the problem of illiteracy in the Commonwealth and to directly combat that problem through research and development projects. For more, see www.theliteracyinstitute.org.

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